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Compass Group Chile’s compact but highly capable legal team of three lawyers is led by chief legal officer Matias Concha Vial, a versatile expert who is particularly adept at handling tax legal matters, having worked in this field in both private practice and a previous inhouse role with EY for a number of years. Thanks largely to Concha’s exceptional organisational talents, a lot of noticeable improvements have been introduced to the team’s internal organisation over the past few years. Besides changing the process of incorporation of new clients and suppliers, the team improved the review process for new tenders and introduced a more accurate system to manage contracts. The governance process of authorisation to include new clients and suppliers has also been overhauled, as the different areas of the company now have to review and agree with the terms of the contracts. Besides these organisational improvements, Concha shares that Compass Group Chile’s legal team ‘has been able to provide very accurate information regarding the collection of debts’. In fact, he states that the team has been able to collect over 90% of the company’s overdue debt in the past two years. In addition to the team’s leader, corporate legal head Andrea Aedo de la Cuadra is another outstanding name within the team, receiving praise for providing ‘security’ and a ‘solid base’ for the company. According to Concha with her ‘knowledge and precision in the review of contracts and tenders‘, in the past few years de la Cuadra has contributed immensely to securing a lot of contracts with new clients for Compass Group in Chile. ‘Her support has been vital to the growth of the company,’ he adds.