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Founded in 1926, Grupo Fleury is one of the most respected medical and health organisations in Brazil. Its business lines cover attention units, operations in hospitals, reference laboratories, preventative medicines and dental diagnostics. Heading the legal team of 12 lawyers and five support staff for the Group is general counsel Andrea Marcon Bocabello. Explaining the scope and scale of the legal function’s recent work, Bocabello says, ‘we deal with several P&D projects, M&A’s and partnerships within the sector’. Another key feature of the department’s work has been forming a legal and business strategy to mitigate duplicated tax burdens on healthcare services, accommodate a class action involving the physician services and government regulation to permit digital innovatory services in healthcare in Brazil. One innovation the team has been commended for is the creation of a “lab of innovation” that consists of a day-long bimonthly group meeting to identify and map opportunities of development and creation of new services to internal clients. During a recent meeting Marcon says that ‘the team identified opportunities to facilitate authority approvals and delegation, a contracts review and approval system using a mobile phone app, implemented form agreements to be used and adjusted by procurement and real estate areas without legal support through the use of algorithms and a software to automatically produce litigation reports for the finance team and controllers’. Having established itself as a trustworthy, innovative and proactive team, it is no surprise that Grupo Fleury’s legal team enjoy a close working relationship with the company’s senior management and is closely aligned to the business.