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The in-house legal team at Siemens Healthineers in Colombia continues to impress and provide the highest quality legal coverage to the global healthcare giant’s presence in Colombia and the Andean region. Carlos Calderón, head of legal and compliance officer for the Andean Pacific zone, is responsible for leading the legal and compliance functions within the area. He is also charged with providing strategic and operational legal and regulatory advice and governance, with the purpose of ensuring integrity and safeguarding the company’s values and reputation. The team is also directly responsible for strategic business models and large scale projects. Junior legal and compliance attorney Laura Castro is responsible for providing legal support to business lines and functions on traditional business models. Pilar Pedraza, head of export controls and customs, is responsible for leading the ECC department within the Andean zone and for developing strategies, processes and procedures to efficiently fulfil all organisational and legal requirements export control and customs regimes and for advise on other functions in fulfilling prohibitions and restrictions tested at the time of customs clearance. Pamela Hidalgo, based in Lima is also part of the team being directly responsible legal counsel for Peru and Ecuador. The team has supported the structuring of complex deals beyond the traditional business models such as the inauguration for the first time in Colombian history of a specialised magnetic resonance room (MRI) for children. In addition the team is currently working on the issuance of the certification as “authorised economic operator” in Colombia. To do that, the team has been working during the last two years in the drafting, implementation and enhancing of the anti-money laundering system and local procedures and risk matrix. About the working relationship of the team, Calderón identifies that, ‘team culture is based on passion for our work as business partners and on a fluent and respectful communication. Communication is key for having appropriate levels of understanding within the team and the other functions’.