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The Pierre Fabre legal team in Italy is known in the region for its highly experienced and competent set of lawyers. Pierre Fabre is the second largest global dermo-cosmetic laboratory...

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With three legal departments in France – one corporate team and one each for the company’s two main business groups of Pierre Fabre Medicament Santé and Pierre Fabre dermo-cosmetics – and more lawyers internationally for a total headcount of 62, Pierre Fabre maintains an extremely capable in-house legal presence. Iohann Le Frapper leads the company’s in-house legal department as group general counsel and mentions that he has observed a number of major trends within the team since he joined two years ago. ‘The need to replace some departures gave us the opportunity to hire new profiles with skills matching new corporate requirements’, he says. ‘There has been an increase in collaborative work among lawyers to design and deploy templates and extremely close teamwork between the litigation and IP teams also’ he adds. Perhaps the most important advancement has come with the adoption of new software solutions to manage ‘company secretarial services, governance of the portfolio of subsidiaries, litigation and contracts’, which has led to the development of new skills to support this. Compliance has also been a major focus of the team. ‘In light of the enhanced regulatory framework – for example the French anticorruption act, GDPR and anti-money laundering acts – the legal team has been devoting significant time to supporting the enhancement of the corporate compliance program and its implementation’, Le Frapper says. Other important projects that the team has worked on include key partnerships with US-listed biotech companies and an issuance of short-term notes. ‘The legal and IP team is a trusted business partner leveraging law to achieve strategic goals, protect and enhance the value of corporate assets and secure business operations’, Le Frapper says. ‘It has built a strong reputation as a business partner and the excellence of the legal team is recognised by senior management’.

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