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Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has a major presence in Canada with a large manufacturing centre in Montreal, which responsible for producing some of Pfizer’s most well-known retail brands such as ADVIL, CENTRUM, CALTRATE, PREPARATION H, ROBAX and ROBITUSSIN for 90 worldwide markets in nearly 450 different formats. Its highly regarded in-house legal team is led by vice president of legal affairs and general counsel Jonathan Cullen, who also serves a corporate secretary, chief compliance officer, secretary of the pension committee and is a member of the executive management team. The team manages all legal and corporate governance for the company in Canada as well as monitors the company’s financial and industry regulations; no small task in a heavily monitored industry. In the last year among many notable, business-facilitating successes, the team negotiated a renewal of the research partnership agreement between Pfizer Canada and the Université de Sherbrooke, which had begun 10 years ago in the area of industrial pharmaceutical process.