About

Having started his career at Bech-Bruun, the Danish firm, Andreas Brandt decided to move in-house in 2009, first to Dong Energy and thereafter to Grundfos where he is using his, ‘wide-range of skills within the legal sphere’ to deal with M&A and risk management. Brandt introduced a middle man to the ladder of the legal department in order to remove the bottle-neck effect and has helped risk management take a step up. One source opines that Brandt ‘is an extremely capable and commercial-oriented lawyer’, something that is recognised by Grundfos, which resulted in his rapid promotion upon joining. His capability to integrate commercial needs while adhering to legal regulations with the same level of importance is estimable. Brandt states that ‘being a GC, it is an efficiency thing, asking yourself can you provide that extra value to transform your business for the better?’ He is clearly on the right path to transforming the legal environment at Grundfos by constantly piecing together, what he calls the “triangle”; ‘the technical understanding of what the company does, the commercial understanding for the business aspects and third the legal understanding’. He claims that one of his biggest achievements has been to get to where he is now. ‘I don’t want to single out any as they are all achievements big and small and it has to lead to where I am now, and now I am happy to go to work everyday’.