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Arcos Dourados Comércio de Alimentos (McDonald’s)

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Chief legal officer and GC Powerlist: Brazil inclusion in 2016 Boris Gris leads a legal team of 13 lawyers, three trainees, two apprentices and two administrative staff for Arcos Dourados Comércio de Alimentos, the Brazilian part of Arcos Dorados, the largest McDonald’s franchisee in the world in terms of sales and restaurants. In terms of its day-to-day work, the team has the goal of providing legal services as to assure stability of all company projects, making business feasible and mitigating risks. The team has recently been preoccupied with reshaping and implementing legal contracts related to the company’s new franchising model, and has also overseen implementation of a new division especially dedicated to labour law over the last two years, recognising the requirement to devolve and add additional support in the necessary practice area. Innovative in nature, Gris explains the team has recently adopted key risk indicators that ‘manage and deal with litigation and important issues, replacing the traditional contingency amounts oriented approach’. Also in line with this innovative spirit, the team has been ‘essential’ in supporting the challenge of a new model of restaurant, the first of which is located in São Paulo. Gris claims that ‘as the new restaurant involves a change of the way services are provided, the manner employees are engaged, the way products are taxed and the great impact on marketing and advertisement campaigns, [the] legal team was essential in supporting the big challenge launched by the company and had made feasible such material change in the company’s business model’. In describing the team’s relationship with the upper management of the business, Gris says the legal team ‘interacts widely, openly, transparently and very closely to the CEO and senior management, creating and maintaining a healthy and respectful interdependency culture. Ideas are exchanged and challenges are shared in order to achieve the company’s goals’.

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