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The Boehringer Ingelheim Italia legal team is made up of four lawyers, dedicated respectively to the company’s human pharma business, the animal health business and to the other enabling functions and operations of the business. The team is led by head of legal and compliance Enrico Carlo Baccetti, and is replete with a legal specialist tasked with paralegal and assistant work, as well as a compliance officer leading a sub-team of three compliance professionals. These compliance professionals work on project management, auditing and compliance management work, all reporting directly or indirectly to Baccetti. Together, the legal team supports the business of Boehringer Ingelheim in Italy by enabling growth and helping the organisation better serve its customers in an ethical and legally compliant way. The legal team deals with all legal issues Boehringer Ingelheim faces on a daily basis, advising strategically on matters including human and vet pharma regulations, data protection, dispute resolution and competition law. A large part of its work is focused on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts in a variety of areas including digital transformation. The legal department has been central to the global swap deal with Sanofi, an exchange of Boehringer Ingelheim consumer health care business and Sanofi’s animal health business globally, as a result of which a new business unit – animal health – has been created and integrated into the group. Culturally, the team has made substantial steps in moving from supporting to enabling the business unit and leveraging the company values of “agility, accountability and intrapreneurship.” It embraces the concept of smart risk-taking with a significant increase of the time spent on customer-facing activities to build solutions together with business partners. ‘We have heavily invested our energies in promoting a balanced sense of accountably by each employee at Boehringer Ingelheim Italy, helping our colleagues increase their knowledge and awareness of the difference that “doing the right thing” brings to the business and to the organisation, [using] targeted communication and trainings’, explains Baccetti.