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Mumbai-headquartered global pharmaceutical company Wockhardt utilises a 14-person legal team of highly qualified and forward-thinking lawyers. Debolina Partap, general counsel and head of legal provides some detail into the range and volume of projects that the team has undertaken in recent months: ‘The company is a huge supplier of essential drugs to developing nations in Africa and Asia, with the legal team successfully concluding contracts worth $50m in this area. Alongside this, the team has handled financing documentation worth $400m, effectively protected IP worth $500m and made an impact in controlling various regulatory issues of the company’. Partap provides further insight into the internal coordination and team spirit that has allowed the team to complete these challenging projects. ‘Teamwork’, she says, ‘grows out of a culture of openness and trust between managers and employees. Broadening the horizons by inculcating the exchange of ideas and thoughts by channelling the positive energy amongst peers is key’. Partap singles out head of legal – international and corporate Vineet Chaudhary for particular praise for management of internal employee initiatives as well as excellent day-to-day work, and shines further light on the internal professional development which also helps the team to succeed. ‘The legal team at Wockhardt’, she explains, ‘is dedicated to ensuring that the lawyers here have abundant opportunities to develop professionally through gaining diverse professional experience and practice opportunities that focus on, and incorporate, the law department’s core values’.