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Since revolutionising the personal computer market with the launch of Windows operating system in the mid-1980s, Microsoft has been one of the world’s largest and most important companies. It has also managed impressive growth levels over the past decade, with net revenue increasing from $51bn to $85bn in the period 2007-2016. The company’s eleven-strong legal team for Mexico, led by Jorge J. Vega-Iracelay, is known to be a strong function that is able to attract some of the best talent in the market. Former Nokia commercial attorney Lorenza Luengo was recently added to their consumer business legal function in a move that shows they are able to attract top legal minds to their in-house ranks. Additional mention is given to the work of Rebeca Servin-Lewis, who has successfully closed a number of deals by deploying ‘very complex legal engineering, high work ethics and a facilitator attitude’. As a technology company, one would expect a forward thinking and progressive approach towards utilising legal technology, and this is indeed the case at Microsoft. In order to enable ‘a favourable IT policy… and shape the policy landscape by providing our company´s policy positions as well as relevant international best practices to policy makers’, the team has set up ‘a microsite which contains abundant policy papers, videos and information about pertinent policy issues, Microsoft´s policy positions, our philanthropy offerings and our technology solutions’, says Jorge J. Vega-Iracelay, assistant general counsel. This gives the legal team greater transparency, which in turn allows them to influence the regulatory framework that is decided upon by policy-makers. The team is encouraged to deploy ‘a “smart risk taking process” approach’, providing them with ‘a model and decision matrix to follow a structured process’ to achieve this in a controlled manner. Given their placement in the constantly shifting technology and software sector, the team is also encouraged to be ‘disruptive, creative and self-critical when planning strategies’, creating a team of independent thinkers who are willing to come up with creative solutions to existing challenges. Recently, the team took part in ‘a very complex negotiation with a Mexican multinational, with effects in multiple jurisdictions across 26 countries’. This deal, which ‘was only possible due to the participation of Microsoft’s diverse legal teams based in several jurisdictions acting as one’, encountered barriers to the closure of the deal based around data privacy issues, which were solved by ‘the proactive and direct involvement’ of the Mexican legal team. This, and other projects executed by the Microsoft legal team in Mexico, prove their ability to operate at the highest levels of legal business.

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