Group general counsel | Kuehne + Nagel International
Marc Pfeffer
Group general counsel | Kuehne + Nagel International
Group General Counsel | Kuehne + Nagel International AG
Marc Pfeffer has shown outstanding leadership at his time at Kuehne + Nagel. He successfully led a major re-financing and re-capitalisation of a Swiss listed group. He also made integral...
Group general counsel | Kuehne + Nagel Management
Dr Marc Pfeffer has served as the group general counsel for global transport and logistics company, Kuehne + Nagel since 2014. During his four years in the role he has...
Dr. Marc Pfeffer has been a member of the management board responsible for legal and governance at Kuehne+Nagel International since January 2023.
Marc joined Kuehne+Nagel as group general counsel in 2014. He restructured the legal department and introduced competence centres and efficient cost structures. Under his leadership, the compliance department was reorganised, and data protection was established in accordance with the relevant regulations.
In 2019, Marc Pfeffer additionally assumed the function of the corporate secretary of the board of directors of Kuehne + Nagel International.
From 2008 to 2019, he was a member of the board of directors of Ruf Holding, Wollerau, Switzerland. In 2019, he joined the board of directors of Kühne Holding and was a member of the audit committee. Marc Pfeffer stepped down from the board of directors of Kühne Holding effective December 31, 2022.
Marc Pfeffer has lived and worked as a lawyer in Switzerland for 16 years. He was head of international legal affairs from the end of 2006 until 2010. Then, until 2012, he was general counsel of the publicly listed OC Oerlikon Corporation, Pfäffikon, Switzerland, a global market leader in PVD coatings, gearboxes and textile machinery.
From 2002 to 2006, he was in the legal department with DB, Berlin, Germany, and was jointly responsible for integrating the logistics subsidiary DB Schenker. As general counsel at DB Netz, Frankfurt am Main,he had global responsibility for legal affairs and corporate governance as part of the management team from 2005. He left the DB Group in 2006 as the German Government called off the planned IPO of DB Netz.
Marc Pfeffer studied law and received his doctorate in law with distinction from Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. In 1998, he worked at the US Federal Trade Commission and lived in Washington, DC, USA. He was a lecturer in the Business Administration Department of the Berlin Business School from 2004 until his move to Frankfurt.
Positions held within the Kuehne+Nagel Group:
2014 – today: Group general counsel of the Kuehne+Nagel Group
2019 – today: Corporate secretary of the board of directors of Kuehne+Nagel
Jan 2023 – today: Chief legal officer, executive vice president legal and governance of the group
