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The Swiss multinational healthcare company Roche has been in Chile since the 1930s and through its important scientific contributions in pharmacotherapy and diagnosis products it is a market leader in Chile’s pharmaceuticals industry. The local legal team is critical to its success, particularly in its diligence in handling the complexity of legal matters in the sector. Roche Chile’s legal team supervises the company’s handling of its product development, commercial activity, and its research and scientific community engagement. These responsibilities include advising on Roche’s patents and intellectual property of scientific research, pharmaceutical drugs regulation, internal employment matters, and the long term management of research, distribution and commercial contracts for the drugs and diagnostic products. The team is involved in the supervision of the medical department’s drug advice queries service, and handling compliance and risk issues for the pharmacovigilance unit that monitors the safety profile of medicines, and other products. A nominator said the team and Jorge Julio, its director of legal affairs and compliance ‘consistently display extensive knowledge of legal matters. He and his team always deliver strong legal advice with clarity and focus’.