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‘Over the last two years, PetroRio has undergone a major turnaround, which was only possible due to a strong legal team. During this period, we sought to strengthen the team and internalise demands, reducing costs with external advisors. We have also implemented KPI’s and aggressive goals for the team, shifting the nature of the legal team from simple advisors and supporting area to a business area and partner to the company, assuming responsibility for the effective implementation of strategies’ says Fabrício Zaluski, legal manager at oil and gas producer PetroRio. The team has enabled PetroRio to become one of the largest oil and gas exploration and production companies in Brazil, and this status was achieved through huge changes in the company structure that started in 2014. With four lawyers and an intern alongside him, Zaluski has led the team through this period of change which has led to highly successful results such as ‘a more closer and effective relationship between the legal team and the other areas and also with the external advisors, always chasing better results for the company’. Keen to ensure high standards of legal knowledge across the company, the team started a legal training project within PetroRio involving, amongst other things, presentations and training sessions by the legal team members to internal clients working within other areas of the company. ‘This reduced the legal demands arising from operational areas, once they became more aware of the risks and how to mitigate them during the negotiation phase or by understanding the contractual obligations. This reduced unnecessary e-mail exchanges and strengthened the company’s position to the external public’ says Zaluski. Speaking of the team’s culture of openness and collaboration, Zaluski explains that team members are ‘encouraged to speak freely and share their ideas, irrespective of their position, everyone is encouraged to interact with the CEO and all the directors and board members’.

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