Dr. Markus Dreißigacker is Of Counsel at Compound Law with two decades of in-house leadership experience at global companies. He won the individual award for M&A In-House at the Lexology European Awards 2025, and his Bruker legal team was shortlisted for the Global Counsel Awards by ACC and Lexology.

He serves as Group General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Bruker Corporation, where he heads Legal, Compliance, IP, and ESG as a member of the Group Management Board. Before that, he spent more than six years at JDE Peet’s as Global Chief Compliance Officer, Data Protection Officer, and Director Legal Europe, where he led the compliance workstream for the company’s €15.6 billion IPO in 2020. Earlier, he was General Counsel Northern Europe at Kellogg’s and General Counsel DACH for Pringles.

His primary focus is M&A and corporate work: he has driven more than 30 post-merger integration projects and supported over 50 startup, seed, and VC projects, from founding stage to family-owned and listed companies. He combines this with deep expertise in IP, commercial contracts, and complex negotiations across multiple jurisdictions.

Beyond transactional work, he has designed and rolled out global compliance programs as Chief Compliance Officer, deployed GDPR strategy as global Data Protection Officer, and built ESG strategies covering corporate communication, regulatory, and sustainability. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative consumer law from Heidelberg University and is passionate about AI and legal tech.