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Vietnam 2024

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Hong Le

Country legal director | GSK Pharma

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Hong Le

Country legal director | GSK Pharma

What are the most significant cases or transactions that you have been involved in over the past year?

Advising for the pre-launches and launches of three biggest products in the market which contribute appx 50% of TO in 2024; strategic advice for policy roadmap to build the path for the strategic planning; winning IP violation, protect the reputation of the company.

What innovations have you made to the way your legal team works in the past year?

Digitalise the contracts, documentation approval, guidebooks for repeated questions, standardise the decision process…to remove the low added value from legal counsel.

Based on your experience, what is the key to collaborating successfully with business partners?

Understand the business strategies and mission, understand your key stakeholders’ expectations and priorities to prioritise legal resource for supporting; stand on the principals of general counsel: balancing between business AND guardian role; the key success factors for general counsels are not “Yes” or “no”, but HOW.

Which political, economic or regulatory changes have impacted your work the most in the past year?

Decree 13 on data privacy, draft of the revision of Pharma Law, enforcement on ABAC

Apart from legal matters, has the team worked on other company initiatives you would like to highlight?

Business initiatives and new strategy: digital only: advising not only legal frameworks but also culture perspective, people and process perspectives, the readiness of the team and the key stakeholders…tail win, head win of the initiative.

How do you motivate and manage the other members of your legal team well?

All the change and focus are for our patients, the heart of the business.

What is a cause, business-related or otherwise, that you are passionate about, and why?

My passion is the value of the group, the commitment of the leadership on delivering the mission and the core values.

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