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‘We are business partners, providing valuable, creative and ethical solutions. This team vision was developed after an intensive team work activity, which started from our core values, and determined also our bold ambition. The team vision is the essence of our activity, the reason why we come to work every day. Being business partners is at the centre of our legal activity’, says Carlo Simone Massenti, AstraZeneca’s vice president legal Italy and Western and Southern Europe. Massenti presides over a compact team of six professionals and the dotted line support of two additional lawyers. The team has achieved ‘remarkable successes’ in the negotiating and finding a settlement with the relevant regulatory authority, a pre requisite when dealing with the complex web of regulation present in the pharmaceutical industry. The team utilise a deep pool of business and legal knowledge to achieve this success in addition to embracing new technology, including the recent adoption of Docusign, an electronic signature software that assist in helping ‘sign some types of agreements’.