About

Jan Sandtrø manages a 13-strong team located in Norway, Sweden, Ukraine and India, covering the legal matters of Evry, one of the largest IT companies in the Nordics. Sandtrø headed the establishment of his current team, which have since received the highest satisfaction rating from all internal services within the group of companies. Leading this team, he has implemented contract templates for customers and suppliers and knowledge sharing systems for all areas of the business in order to mitigate legal risks. Moreover, Sandtrø’s routine handling of external counsel has resulted in diminished costs of external instruction. In the last two years, the group has been through a number of major challenges, as it was acquired by private equity fund manager, Apax. ‘Contracts for the majority of the major customers have been negotiated and entered into, and at the same time the legal group has performed with outstanding quality and to great satisfaction to the business areas of the group’. When discussing the challenges of his role Sandtrø concedes that ‘every day is a challenge in supporting the normal day-to-day business when we face major transactions, downsizing, and entering into major contracts with customers and suppliers’. However, these challenges allow Sandtrø to be close to the fast-changing business, a factor that he enjoys the most about his role.