How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

As Savana is a pioneer in the field of innovation in the Health sector, Savana’s legal practice is very used to dealing with scenarios of constant change as well as regulatory instability. Undoubtedly, what makes our legal team have an optimal working model is the ability of working closely with business and technical teams to systematically contextualise all strategical and/or technical innovations in the applicable regulatory frameworks (e.g. Privacy, AI regulations, Health regulations, etc.) and thus we can make agile analyses of specific risks, which allows us to constantly adapt the legal, technical and/or organisational mechanisms necessary to move our products/services forward in a way that is aligned with the privacy and security they require.

What are the main cases or transactions that you have been involved in recently?

As our company is dedicated to Health innovation through IA, we face constant business challenges that require a flexible regulatory/legal approach to be able to continue providing innovative solutions with high added value. The latest of the major projects in which we are immersed is the implementation of Data Spaces in the Healthcare Sector, including Artificial Intelligence tools, which allow the accessibility and sharing of sensitive health data securely and respecting privacy.

How have you integrated technology into your legal processes, and what impact has this had on efficiency and compliance?

We have included Generative AI tools in most of our administrative tasks to be able to optimise our time to conduct some of our most repetitive daily tasks. We also had the opportunity to try some tools allowing us to efficiently resume case law and regulatory documentation and focus more on high value legal impact assessments. Not only efficiency has been one of the outcomes of these tools but also their use, unable us to closely monitor regulatory changes and be more compliant with specific requisites. We are also looking forward to adding new functionalities that allow us to automate our contractual processes.

What do you see as the major legal challenges for businesses in Spain over the next five years, and how are you preparing to address them?

Undoubtedly, the search for a balance between the complexity, immaturity and legal vacuum of AI tools and the undeniable advantages that their use can bring to different processes/businesses is a challenge. However, having been in contact with different AI mechanisms for more than 10 years, at Savana we know well the evolution of its regulation, as well as the risks and impacts inherent to the use of this type of tools, so all the knowledge acquired in these years makes us capable of adapting our business legal framework in an agile and consistent way to the regulatory requirements that have been lately emerging around AI.