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‘The legal team is today considered a trusted business partner by the entire organisation, which the team considers as its most important trademark’, says Charlotte Bertelsen who leads the legal department at NME Pharmaplan, an international establishment specialising in pharma engineering. NME Pharmaplan assist various pharmaceutical companies in bringing products to the market by providing ‘flexible, compliant and future-proof solutions’. The legal team of four was established in 2007 as a global function with the task of servicing the entire group. In a short period of time, the department was able to identify a global requirement for an increased awareness in relation to confidentiality obligations that they provide to their customers. To meet this need the team successfully modernised procedures and guidelines in addition to implementing a compulsory e-learning program, which edifies employees on how to handle confidentiality in daily business. The in-house team is considered to be an integrated part of critical business processes within the company, and therefore has a high impact on business decisions and risk mitigation in addition to extensive global compliance activities such as business ethics, confidentiality and export control. External nominators have highlighted the legal department at NNE Pharmaplan as a ‘highly diligent and skilled set of legal experts’. Bertelsen believes that ‘being considered as a business partner to the organisation has been the clear strategy of the team from the early days and something that has influenced most of our daily work’.