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Led by highly esteemed legal director Antonio Basilio Pires e Albuquerque, Enel Group Brazil’s legal team has supported the business on a number of marquee transactions in the last year. Particularly noteworthy was the team’s support of the $640m acquisition and privatisation of CELG, a deal that increased Enel’s Brazilian customer base from seven million to 10 million, while also increasing the number of customers served by the Group globally to approximately 65 million. Other key transactional achievements for the team over the last year include work on a transmission line auction, several renewable energy auctions and a fundamental deal with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Basilio states the team has embraced a culture of ‘intellectual independence’, and is always open to new ideas and perspectives to drive the business forward. Recently, the team introduced an innovative project with the intention to ‘reduce the number of active litigations as well as reduce the costs involved in them, combining customer information, history of lawsuits and statistics,’ he articulates. ‘It involves the implementation of a system that identifies models of information analysis and defines profiles of target audiences to reduce the number of new lawsuits and increase the success in the processes already in place, thus having the ability to predict and analyse our universe of clients. In order to do so, the project is divided in two models, the first being the analysis of the probability of a client initiating a lawsuit in the face of the company, and the second the analysis of the probability of the client succeeding in the claims already in place’. Comprised of 65 employees, the team features a number of highly experienced lawyers, such as its leader Antonio Basilio Pires e Albuquerque, as well as Ana Claudia Gonçalves Rebello, Déborah Meirelles Rosa Brasil, Cristine de Magalhães Marcondes, Sergio Salluh and Maria Eduarda Fisher.