About

German Grüniger took over the role of Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in 2014 and is since 2019 a member of the Implenia Executive Committee. Before joining Implenia, he was in private practice for more than 15 years commercial law firms in Zurich, the last 8 years focusing as a partner on dispute resolution, commercial contracts and real estate transactions. German transitioned into his Group General Counsel role rapidly and took on the challenge of leading the global legal team and transforming the team into a modern legal department.

At Implenia, a leading multinational integrated construction and real estate company headquartered in Switzerland, he manages all global legal affairs of the company’s operations. As Group General Counsel, he is responsible for both large infrastructure and other constructions projects as well as for national and cross-border transactions.

German developed the legal department at an early stage as a valued and integrated strategic-business partner and continuously expanded this strategic partnering in order to advance the company’s business. Today, the Implenia in-house counsel is a permanent member in the value assurance process of the company and included in executive level conversations about the organization’s future, its mission, and overall strategy goals.

Further, he identified the need to enable the legal department to better serve their clients by applying digitalized and automated business and technical practices for the efficient, qualitative and cost-effective way of innovative legal service delivery. German created a new multidisciplinary Legal Operations & Strategy department which provides strategic planning, financial and project management, and technology expertise that improved the overall efficiency of the legal department and enables legal professionals to focus on providing innovative legal advice.