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One of the largest insurance providers in the world and insurer of over 40% of Swiss companies, the Swiss arm of French-based global insurer AXA generates a huge amount of complex cross-border work for its legal team to handle. AXA is the only Swiss insurance company with its own accident research centre, and has been actively promoting safety in road traffic recently. The legal team has been supporting this initiative by handling, implementing and contributing ideas to the project. One nominator notes that, ‘the lawyers are all, without exception, able to identify the company’s core strategic goals and play a large part in helping them fulfil those goals’. In particular, the team has been praised for implementing the robust risk management capacities that have helped it become one of the largest asset managers in Europe.