About

Ferrostaal Topsoe Projects (FTP) is a joint venture providing holistic solutions for industrial projects in the petrochemicals, refinery and environmental technology sectors worldwide. The legal team at FTP is headed by general counsel Mette Waltorp. Prior to her employment at FTP, Waltorp was corporate legal counsel at Haldor Topsoe, one of the joint venture partners. In the words of a nominator, ‘she has a unique and in-depth understanding of business processes and the working relationship between Ferrostaal Topsoe Projects, Ferrostaal and Haldor Topsoe’. The legal team is known for being skilled, progressive and thinking out-of-the-box, despite its relatively small size. The team handles a substantial part of FTP’s legal work internally with great results, and deals with external advisors globally in more specialised or local legal matters. Among the most frequent tasks are everything from concluding supply contracts of natural gas and factories to financing, contact with authorities and environmental approvals. Since the creation of the joint venture in 2015, the cooperation of Ferrostaal and Haldor Topsoe has proved a perfect blend of skills for the legal team, who have been able to quickly adapt to the working processes, combining distinctive know-how in project development and facilitation of investments with world-leading process technologies. In addition, the legal team has undertaken creative measures designed to ensure that FTP is guaranteed experience, reliability and a consistently high quality of products and services. One nominator said that ‘the team has a broad insight into all legal aspects relevant to the company while still being able to specify and delve deeply into the topic at hand’.