About

With an impressive career spanning multiple sectors Anne Diness, attorney general counsel at DEIF, brings a multidimensional and global understanding for strategy and legal requirements. Diness began her career at A.P. Møller-Mærsk, the biggest shipping company in the world, and thereafter moved to work in one of Denmark’s leading law firms, Gorrissen Federspiel. Having joined DEIF in 2014 to revisit her in-house career, she reshaped the legal on-goings of the organisation from solely depending on external legal counsel to a more in-house approach. Diness’ global knowledge suits her role as she manages 11 of the DEIF subsidiaries across the globe with the hope of incorporating more subsidiaries in the near future. One lawyer at a leading Danish firm praises Diness for her ‘global mind-set, gained from having worked and lived abroad, which is very well reflected in her dialogue with internal and external stakeholders’. They go on to tribute Diness’ experience in the shipping industry which has provided her with skills that are rare to find in a lawyer. A deep rooted knowing of ‘the ins and outs of the entire organisation’, allows Diness to extract her ‘legal expertise to be used as a tool in achieving [the company’s] overall strategy rather than as an obstacle to the commercial adventures desired by senior management’.