About

Caroline Fellenius-Omndell is recognised for her ability to successfully build and develop legal teams globally and is now driving change in Tele2’s legal and regulatory department across nine jurisdictions. Fellenius-Omndell joined Tele2, a major European telecommunications operator, in May 2014 with a strong background in international corporate law and particular expertise in EU and competition law, having spent three years as group general counsel at Sidel. She was also previously general counsel for Europe at Tetra Pak in Paris. At Sidel, Fellenius-Omndell built and reorganised the legal department involving several key recruitments and setting up of relevant work tools. In addition she launched a corporate governance program that covered 190 countries and included face-to-face training, e-learning, recruitment of a corporate governance officer and setting up a compliance leader network. Now in her first year at Tele2, she has already developed a special competency group on areas such as competition law, data protection and M&A to utilise internal expertise and avoid unnecessary use of outside counsel. Fellenius-Omndell has in fact initiated an outside counsel project, with guidelines for work, engagement letter templates and advanced procurement of to optimise use and save costs. She also set up common legal policies and procedures and an intranet page for the department, which features contract templates and contact details. Explaining her philosophy Fellenius-Omndell says, ‘I enjoy developing the legal and regulatory organisation not only because of the efficiencies, but also because I strongly believe this is a career motivator for the lawyers in my team’. She explains further by saying, ‘I also enjoy being part of the leadership team and the board as corporate secretary, as you get insights and an ability to influence in areas which are not only strictly legal’.