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Volvo Group has an extensive presence in Brazil, and produces cars, trucks, heavy machinery and marine engines in large numbers for the Brazilian market. Indeed, while car production is perhaps what the Group is best known for, that the other business areas are in similarly healthy shape is borne out by the fact that Volvo supplies equipment to the Brazilian army, state public services and a large number of construction companies as well as personal consumers. Legal support for such a variety of demanding clients requires the Volvo Group legal team in Brazil to be both highly motivated and technically skilled in a variety of business and legal areas; a number of the team’s members stand out for exactly these qualities. Alfredo Santana is legal and corporate compliance director for Latin America, and boasts twenty years’ experience as a corporate counsel in a variety of settings which provide him with an advanced skillset that makes him an ideal person to coordinate a top-level in-house legal department. Eliana Madini, senior legal counsel, backs up Santana while utilising an incredibly thorough understanding of Volvo’s activities in Brazil; she has been employed by the Group since 1994. With this competent and experienced legal team, Volvo Group’s operations in Brazil and across Latin America are in very safe hands from a legal standpoint.