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Insud Pharma is a company with nearly 40 years of experience providing pharmaceutical solutions for the entire life cycle of a medicine. With 6,000 professionals entirely devoted to enhance health and wellness and with a presence in over 40 countries, Insud Pharma has become one of the leading companies in its sector. ‘Taking into account the vast amount of regulations applicable in the pharmaceutical sector as well as its singularity and difficulty, when talking about the success of Insud Pharma we cannot ignore the major work conducted by the company’s legal team, whose expertise and high qualifications of its legal members has remained one of the company’s cornerstones throughout the years’, says a nominator. The team is led by the formidable general counsel, Sandra Martín Morán who recently gained recognition as a top-performing female legal professional. Since joining, one of her main goals has been to have a new team with diverse international profiles and as legally open-minded as possible. Insud Pharma’s in-house M&A and corporate finance team, is headed by Ana Mondedeu, who has been highlighted by nominators for not only ensuring the observance of the relevant applicable legislation by assessing and anticipating the legal risks of the company’s actions, but also is committed to understanding the company’s business. ‘Their task is complex and wide, ranging from participating in the drafting and negotiating of concrete agreements to assessing the company in day-to-day matters, which is always a challenging and engrossing responsibility in one of the most competitive and sophisticated industries nowadays’, explains a nominator. In the last two years the legal team has worked on over 150 M&A opportunities all over the world, reaching different phases of contract negotiation for 50 of them, and successfully closing 30, most of them abroad. The team has worked on all these projects, having used external lawyers only for eight out of the 30 mentioned. ‘In the last two years we have implemented several software tools, some of them all around the group, with presence a in more than 40 countries. These tools have allowed us to keep the same headcount within the legal department while our sales grow at an approx. 20% annual rate’, says corporate and M&A counsel, Mondedeu. Described as ‘collaborative and easy-going’, Insud Pharma’s in-house legal team, have continuously demonstrated the ability to facilitate an excellent link with external law firms and making, as a consequence, according to peers, ‘a comfortable environment in the interest of the company’s consistency and effectiveness’.