Bold-on, cost-effective support
Client-specific solutions
Leveraging global network learnings
Agile consulting structures
“Bold on – not “gold-on”
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Legal, Data Privacy and Compliance practices, regardless of in-house or law firm, are at an inflection point. Corporations, Governments, Law Firms must embrace new, digital operating models or risk getting left behind. Legal Tech Companies must partner with organizations and consultancies to ensure sustainable change.
After years of driving change and innovation within some of the largest legal departments and tech players in the world, we are set out to bridge the existing gap and co-create the digital future within our profession. We help connecting people, culture, processes and technology for sustainable solutions.
Together we are Transforming Legal.
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Vera & Tom are not consultants in the traditional sense. You can tell they come from real-world experience and truly put themselves into their clients’ shoes.
As co-architect of a digital transformation, I experienced Tom as a results-driven doer. He understands the challenges of a complex organization and is able to implement change in a sustainable way.
Its truly exciting to see the vision and purpose of Transforming.Legal take shape. Having seen Tom Pfennig in action for many years, he brings strategic vision, experience and results to the table that will significantly advance the impact of the in-house legal profession and benefit the clients and customers they serve. Congratulations Tom and all at Transforming.Legal!
I have been knowing Tom for many years when he was with Bayer. He is a frontrunner in innovation and change. He and his team have proven that a successful digital transformation results in service optimization and client satisfaction. Transforming.Legal will be a highly effective consulting boutique serving clients around the world with their unique implementation experience.
Tom and his team at Transforming.Legal will prove their claim to „Experience the Difference" in how they offer their services as well as how a legal function will enhance its effectiveness after the transformation.
Transforming.Legal will be a game changer in legal transformation consulting. Their pragmatic approach, tech understanding and real-world experience is difficult to match.
The G.O.L.T. STAR software validation process provided us with invaluable insights and credibility in the legal tech marketplace. The comprehensive evaluation helped us refine our platform and build trust with our clients.
It's been a real pleasure going through this process with the TFL teams, your collaboration, transparency, and rigor have made this an outstanding experience from start to finish. We're truly honored to have Certa certified as a G.O.L.T. STAR solution and featured as part of the G.O.L.T. platform launch. Thank you again for the partnership and for making this such a rewarding engagement.
At SIRION, we strive to make contracting seamless, robust and secure. Getting our CLM technology validated through the G.O.L.T. STAR software validation process is a testament to our continued effort to enable global enterprises to adopt AI-native contracting in its truest form.
Safeguarding global organizations with AI-driven compliance & risk management solutions is hallmark to our konaAI mission. Transforming Legal’s G.O.L.T STAR Validation team delivered an exceptionally rigorous and independent assessment of the konaAI platform, providing credibility and validation that resonates strongly with our enterprise customers and stakeholders. Their review not only affirmed the strength of our technology and controls, but also reinforced our mission to empower compliance, audit, and risk management professionals with solutions that measurably reduce global fraud, corruption, and enterprise risk. We view G.O.L.T as a trusted partner in advancing transparency, accountability, and confidence in next-generation risk and compliance technologies.
Going through the G.O.L.T. STAR software validation was an extensive process. The criteria are rigorous and the testing robust, which makes us proud to have earned the certification. This is further evidence that our software is reliable, thoroughly vetted, and trustworthy.
Legal teams have long struggled with the absence of independent validation when evaluating technology solutions — making the process expensive and time-consuming, and leaving organizations exposed to the very real risk that a chosen product won't deliver on its promises. The rapid proliferation of AI-based solutions has made this problem significantly worse, with vendors making bold claims about capabilities that are difficult for buyers to assess on their own. Transforming.Legal's validation addresses this directly by providing credible, third-party verification that a product does what it says it can do. At Recital, we believe this kind of independent validation will become a baseline expectation for serious legaltech buyers, and we're proud to have earned the G.O.L.T. Star.
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A fter two decades at Bayer, one of Europe’s most complex and scrutinized multinationals, Thomas Pfennig stepped away from the top ranks of compliance leadership— not out of burnout, but to build something the market was missing.
Pfennig had served as senior vice president and global head of compliance and data privacy, helping steer Bayer’s legal department through a turbulent era: the Monsanto acquisition, high- stakes U.S. litigation over glyphosate, and a multi- year digital transformation recognized by the Financial Times for its innovation…
As posted on law.com.
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We’re thrilled that Matt Galvin, co-founder of recently-launched Gentic Global Advisors PLLC and the technology non-profit Integrity Distributed, has joined Transforming.Legal as Director US Operations on April 1, 2025!
Matt combines deep legal expertise, compliance leadership, and cutting-edge data analytics insight — a perfect fit for our mission to redefine how legal and compliance transformation is done.
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We’re thrilled to announce that Bernard Yong will be joining Transforming.Legal as Director, Technical Operations, effective May 1, 2025, based in Singapore!
Bernard brings a powerhouse blend of IT leadership, enterprise architecture, IT operations, and transformation experience—rooted in over two decades of working at the intersection of systems, strategy, and scale.
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“We are proud having been a central part of the global team at BAYER who won the Financial Times Award for the most innovative in-house legal team in Europe in 2022. This unique implementation experience enables us to effectively support clients who are pursuing an equally exciting transformation journey.“
Tom Pfennig
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Bold-on, cost-effective support
Client-specific solutions
Leveraging global network learnings
Agile consulting structures
“Bold on – not “gold-on”
Budget and human impact sensitivity
Cross-functional collaboration
Deep Legal Tech understanding
User and client centricity
“Legal Tech – not Legal Talk.”
Experienced in-house practice group
Cross-cultural experience
Senior legal and compliance knowledge
Pragmatic support
“Been there. Done that.”
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