Matthias Leonardy
Executive Interim Manager
Experience
Interim General Counsel, Sirius Facilities
INTERIM.legal
Legal Lead at Sirius Facilities, leading developer and operator of 70+ innovative business parks and office centers throughout Germany and the UK. Sirius repositions and revitalizes former industrial sites and puts them to modern use. Thanks to comprehensive renovation and modernization measures, large industrial sites are thereby transformed into lively business parks that attract companies, freelancers and self-employed professionals from a wide range of industries with their versatile commercial space. With offices, warehouses and production areas, Sirius locations offer a balanced mix of commercial space, allowing its customers to adapt their premises to the current needs of their growing and changing business. Sirius also provides ancillary services such as conference rooms, virtual office as well as other office and communications services to small and medium-sized companies.
Interim Legal Counsel, CEVT / ZEEKR Europe B.V
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to both Geely's co-operation with Waymo for introducing autonomous driving in the U.S. and its establishment of a European footprint of the ZEEKR brand.
Interim Legal Counsel, Robert Bosch GmbH
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to the Business Sector Mobility Solutions - Products and Electronics (e-bike, automotive electronics and sensor tech) of BOSCH, the world's largest automotive tech supplier.
Interim General Counsel, Omio.com
INTERIM.legal
Heading Legal and Compliance and supporting the further international growth of unicorn Omio (f.k.a. GoEuro), Europe’s leading ground travel booking platform
Project Lead Risk Management
INTERIM.legal
Designing and leading the interdisciplinary risk evaluation process to set up a robust risk management system for a major European mobility JV.
Interim Compliance Manager, Vitesco Technologies GmbH
INTERIM.legal
Supporting the roll-out of a full-fledged, worldwide compliance management system post spin-off of Vitesco (manufacturer of electrification technologies for all types of vehicles).
Interim General Counsel / Leiter Recht, FALKE KG aA
INTERIM.legal
Leading the Legal dept. and supporting the worldwide business of FALKE, renowned producer of high-quality footwear and sports apparel (bluechip SME)
Compliance Advisor, Automotive
INTERIM.legal
Conducting a compliance audit for leading German automotive manufacturer (DAX listed)
Interim Legal Counsel DACH, Optimizely (f.k.a. Episerver)
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to the business in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland of Optimizely (f.k.a. Episerver), the world's leading experience optimization platform.
Interim General Counsel / VP Legal & Compliance, IGEL Technology
INTERIM.legal
Heading and redesigning the Legal and Compliance department of IGEL Technology, leader in next-gen EDGE OS for cloud workspaces.
Legal Advisor, GapFish
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to GapFish, a leading provider of market research services through online panels in D-A-CH.
Interim Compliance Officer, Share Now
INTERIM.legal
Building from scratch the Compliance department of Share Now, Europe's biggest carsharing provider.
Legal Advisor, Enuygun.com
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to Wingie.de, the German brand of Enyugun, Turkey's leading flight booking platform.
Interim Legal Counsel Mobility Solutions, Robert Bosch
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to the fast-growing e-bike sector of BOSCH, the world's largest automotive supplier.
Legal Advisor, cvlogin.com
INTERIM.legal
Providing legal support to Germany-based CV creation platform cvlogin.
Interim Manager Legal & GRC
INTERIM.legal
INTERIM.legal: Legal Management for Companies in Motion
providing short term solutions for companies in need of an experienced legal / compliance professional
- to strengthen the executive team
- to provide an injection of skills
- to lead or support a project
- to develop or transform their business and organization.
LEAVE COVER / PROJECT WORK
- Legal & Compliance operations
- leadership roles in Legal & Compliance (GC)
ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
- Legal & Compliance process and team redesign
- post-merger integration & change management
- coaching/mentoring for inhouse lawyers
ANALYTICS
- Legal & Compliance risk assessment
- internal investigations
Managing Director & General Counsel
HDF KINO e.V
No.1 Industry Association of Movie Theatres in Germany.
Co-lead, lobbying legislative bodies, governmental institutions, and cultural organisations on both the national and international level. Vice President, Board of Directors of UNIC, International Union of Cinemas.
CEO (Geschäftsführer)
GVU [German anti-piracy organisation of the media industry
No 1 Content Protection Organisation (Non-profit) of the Audiovisual Industry, e-Publishers and Entertainment Software Sector in Germany (Association for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements)
Managing Director, working with a team of highly skilled criminal investigators against cybercrime in a public-private partnership with law enforcement. Also acting as a policy advisor on intellectual property rights protection to legislatures and administrative bodies.
Under Matthias Leonardy’s leadership, GVU was awarded the 2012 Video Champion Business Award for its outstanding success in audivisual content protection against illegal movie piracy portal kino.to, the largest criminal investigation against movie piracy in Germany ever, leading to the destruction of a major organized crime syndicate and several multi-annual incarceration verdicts against its headpeople.
Chief Legal Officer & Compliance Officer, Germany
eBay
No.1 online marketplace in Germany
Managing legal affairs, leading the German Legal Dept (also covering Paypal and mobile.de); tasks ranging from commercial contracts and litigation, legal customer support and legal business consulting on e-commerce law to lobbying. Also acting as Business Ethics Officer.
Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law, Germany)
Görling Rechtsanwälte
Representing large commercial clients against professional counterfeiters and recouping proceeds of crime from organised white collar crime syndicates by conducting anti-counterfeiting investigations and civil litigation in co-operation with law enforcement.
Director Government Affairs Germany
Lucent Technologies
Managing government relations in Germany
General Counsel & Head of HR
primacom
Germany's most innovative and aggressively expanding cable TV operator and internet service provider, moving from a German SME to a multinational stock-listed company.
Setting up and managing legal and regulatory affairs as well as human resources.
Legal Counsel
BGAG Beteiligungsgesellschaft der Gewerkschaften
Strategic management holding managing the portfolio of the German trade unions in several business sectors: housing, banking, book publishing, insurance, consulting.
Compliance management M&A Corporate law Labor law.