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One of the leading personal care, beauty and cosmetics providers in Brazil, Natura Cosméticos is traded on the São Paulo stock exchange, enjoyed $4bn in total revenue for 2016 and employs around 17,000 individuals. The team reports in to head of legal and compliance Itamar Gaino Filho, and legal manager Renata Campos explains how the team has been taking on an ever increasing set of responsibilities: ‘In the past two years the team has aggregated the environmental and real estate areas in addition to our previous roles’. As to how they have managed such a varied workload while continuing to support business objectives, Campos explains that the team has coordinated extensively with other departments. ‘The team acts closely with the innovation and marketing departments in order to guarantee IP protection and take advantage of Natura’s IP rights worldwide’ she explains, ‘and we are also part of a multidisciplinary internal group that analyses and recommends projects and partnerships from conception to implementation’. This has allowed the Natura Cosméticos legal team to support the company on a number of notable projects recently, as Campos details. ‘The renewal of “NATURA” as a well-known trademark has been particularly rewarding’, she notes, ‘as has the acquisition of The Body Shop and our participation on many other projects related to environmental commitments’.