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A world-leading utilities company with over 10,000 employees and a listing on the CAC 40 stock market index, Air Liquide demands legal support that is wide-ranging in terms of practice areas, jurisdictions and business units. The bulk of Air Liquide’s business is the supply of industrial chemicals to different manufacturing businesses as well as a research and development function contributing to a 2016 annual revenue figure of €18.14bn – two revenue streams that require the legal team to be closely aligned to the company’s business lines in order to provide specialist support. The in-house lawyers at Air Liquide have recently assisted with the rollout of important growth drivers for Air Liquide’s business. These include its innovative, cutting-edge products such as new research centres across the world, and their drafting of new contracts in developing markets for the business in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The legal team has also been able to support improvement in the group’s business lines including healthcare and global markets and technologies. The legal department’s work during Air Liquide’s acquisition of American industrials firm Airgas also standouts out for its impact. The acquisition and subsequent integration has prompted a ‘strong growth in sales’, according to comments made by Chairman and CEO Benoît Potier.