Deloitte Legal grows in the area of Legal Management Consulting. Kai Jacob will join as a new partner in the Stuttgart office.
Kai Jacob will start working as a partner at the firm’s Stuttgart office on 1 November 2019. Mr. Jacob changes from SAP SE. As Global Vice President Legal Technology & Innovation, he was responsible for contract management at SAP and together with his team supported the development of SAP’s Enterprise Contract Management and Assembly Solution in S4/HANA. In addition, Kai Jacob is the author of numerous articles on various topics related to the transformation of the legal market and a member of the board of the Liquid Legal Institute e.V.
“Deloitte Legal offers an almost unique national and international network in a multidisciplinary consulting environment and especially in technology implementation. These are excellent conditions for Kai Jacob’s transformation expertise, in particular in view of our interdisciplinary network of proven S4/HANA experts and our close cooperation with Deloitte Consulting,” explains Thomas Northoff, Managing Partner Deloitte Legal.
Dr. Peter Maser, Deloitte Legal Office Managing Partner in Stuttgart, adds: “We are pleased to have gained Kai Jacob as a proven expert for strategic and operational consulting of legal departments in the Rhine-Main-Neckar area as well as for transformation and implementation projects across Germany. Due to the ever faster technical developments, strengthening our team at the interface of law and technology is of high strategic importance to us”.