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The Sura Perú legal department is divided into four main functions; anti money laundering and compliance, legal AFP, investment AFP and investment and fund management, and covers the operations of group companies AFP Integra, Fondos Sura and SAB Sura. In total, the legal team is made up of nine lawyers and six support staff members, one paralegal and five trainees. ‘We have a culture of equity, respect, horizontality, open doors, and straight and open communication. We developed this basing all our work in mutual respect, with daily work based on respect where everyone’s opinions are heard’, says legal and compliance vice president Daphne Zagal. The legal team is composed of several other leading lawyers, including corporative compliance officer Gabriela Terrones, who is in charge of anti-money laundering and compliance, a role that operates for the three companies. Chief legal Helga Corazon oversees the legal aspects of Sura Perú and senior legal analysts Tania Silva and Ana Lith Ramirez, who are in charge of the legal aspects related to all transactions in which pension funds managed by Sura Perú invests. There is an additional function that works on corporate governance matters, specifically the developments related to corporate governance, managed directly by Daphne Zagal. ‘As a legal area, we have vast expertise in all the important legal topics that are required to an all efficient, outcome orientated and innovative legal departments in modern companies. Our expertise goes from the knowledge and execution of very specific regulations to very successful and complex developments in topics related to anti-money laundering, compliance and corporate governance’, says Zagal. Certain regulatory renovations have brought about various new challenges for the legal department, passing for a very strict reorganisation within the organisation due to changes in AFP regulations and due to the sale of the former insurance company, Seguros Sura. Although the situation has exposed the company to very challenging circumstances since the department was urged to change the structures, it has pushed the legal department to work in a more synergetic manner. According to Zagal it also showed ‘the extraordinary resilience of the team and its great capacity of adjusting to new situations and ways of doing it’.