Colombia Teams 2019
| Bayer
Bayer
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Ivannia Montero is business partner for crop science, seeds and environmental...
Head of legal | Lufthansa Technik
Dr Frank Bayer has served as the head of legal, general counsel at Lufthansa Technik, a leading manufacturer and provider of maintenance, repair, overhaul and modification services for civil aircraft,...
| Bayer Iberia
Bayer is one of the leading life science companies with core competences in the areas of health care and agriculture. The Bayer legal team in the Iberia region has been...
| Bayer
Bayer is a leading German life science multinational with more than 150 years of history, and has core competencies in the areas of healthcare and agriculture. Currently, Bayer’s legal team...
| Bayer de México
Bayer has been present in Mexico for almost 100 years, operating in the country since 1921. With over 3,150 employees and annual sales of more than MXN$18bn, the Mexican subsidiary...
| Bayer HealthCare France
The legal team at the French arm of the German multinational Bayer HealthCare is headed by Laurent Pitet, who has served in the position of general counsel and compliance officer...
| Bayer Colombia
The Colombian activities of Fortune-listed global pharmaceutical company Bayer are supported by a team of technically competent, business-minded and thorough in-house lawyers. Rodrigo Borda Olarte – an inclusion in the...
| Bayer Polska
Krzysztof Mazurek, head of the legal, patents and compliance function in Central and Eastern Europe for global pharmaceutical giant Bayer. The department is recognised for its market leading skill and...
| Bayer Hungária
Bayer, the global German enterprise specialising in health care, nutrition and high tech materials, has consistently created value through innovation, growth and high earning power in the Hungarian market. With...
| Bayer
Bayer maintains a vast and highly capable law patents and compliance (LPC) department with almost unparalleled resources. When taking into account compliance and insurance professionals as well as paralegals and...
| Bayer China
Global pharmaceutical company Bayer entered the Chinese market in 1882, and it has been a major centre for Bayer’s pharmaceutical production ever since. Now a household name in drug production,...
| Bayer HealthCare
Laurent Pitet, an extremely well respected legal director and compliance officer in his own right, has a highly competent legal team supporting Bayer Healthcare’s company objectives. ‘Each team member has...
Functioning with upmost integrity, flexibility and efficiency, the Bayer legal team are described by peers as successful leaders with ‘high aspirations, great courage and resilience’. Head of legal patents and...
| Bayer Chile
Operating in the highly regulated and constantly evolving Chilean market of pharmaceutical and consumer care products makes conducting business and formulating new strategies somewhat challenging from a legal perspective. In...
The Bayer legal team in Colombia is led by Hector A. Garcia Corredor, the head of legal, compliance, data privacy and insurance for the multinational healthcare company’s Andean country group. The structure is further separated in two main branches; legal and compliance. The legal branch is composed by three lawyers who serve as business partners for two different business units each: crop science and animal health, pharma and radiology and consumer health and support areas. On the other hand, the compliance branch has three people including one dedicated attorney. Furthermore, the business partners serve as support for compliance matters. As part of the internal Bayer communities, two lawyers are part of the “digital and innovation community”, one lawyer serves as the leader for the “millennial’s community” and the head of the department is the sponsor for the marketing community. The communities within Bayer were created in 2018 to gather employees from different backgrounds and areas of expertise to connect ideas, resulting in innovative projects with internal and external positive impact. Garcia highlights that, ‘it is a great achievement for some of our lawyers to be part of such communities with an active role’. The local legal and compliance team has become a quintessential part of each business unit. Thanks to the business-partnering scheme, each lawyer has become not only a legal advisor but also a comprehensive business counsel who is involved in commercial and strategic planning. Furthermore, the legal and compliance team has developed an innovative approach to compliance matters, making compliance part of Bayer’s DNA. Over the last couple of years, the team has been involved in Monsanto’s acquisition by Bayer in order to ensure its success from a legal point of view, this being a major acquisition. Additionally, as an essential part of the business unit, the legal and compliance team has actively participated in several projects, which have had a deep impact inside and outside of Bayer. Through the counsel of the team, Bayer was able to co-lead the modification of the codes of ethics for the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors in Colombia. The Presidential Transparency Secretariat recognised Bayer as an active anticorruption company in 2018 and Bayer was one of the first companies to be certified as an “authorised economic operator” by the Colombian Tax Authority. Furthermore, the Authority trusted in Bayer to be one of the pilot companies to implement electronic invoicing. The team has been key for the launch of new products for innovative therapies in areas such as oncology, ophthalmology, haematology, cardiology and women’s health. In addition, the legal and compliance function has supported the different projects, which saw Bayer recognised as one of the most innovative companies in the pharmaceutical sector during 2018. Garcia highlights that the team ‘understands that we must facilitate the business whilst protecting the integrity of the company and our employees. As such, the legal and compliance team sets itself to work together with the business units, creating synergies and best practices in order to meet business objectives ensuring high ethical standards. The legal and compliance team has developed innovative compliance projects in the Andean region, which have become global best practices in Bayer’.
