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Bénédicte Bahier, group legal director of Legrand, the CAC 40 company specialising in electrical and digital building infrastructures, presides over a legal team reputed for its quality and assistance on a wide range of business-enabling tasks. Active contributors to the company’s recent growth on its €4.5bn revenue, including an improvement on end-of-year profit, was achieved mainly thanks to business activities spanning the launch of new products and a number of acquisitions, all of which the legal team helped facilitate. One of Legrand’s upcoming initiatives is the ELIOT program, which involves partnering with Internet of Things (IoT) providers to facilitate connectivity and integration of each side’s products and services. The company is also already making headway into the technologically “smart” buildings market through its various digital building technologies such as wireless controls and automation products. Such efforts will provide huge challenges for Legrand’s lawyers as the regulatory side of the IoT is practically undeveloped, and will prove their ability to be at the cutting edge of technology law. Enabling Legrand to meet its targets despite a complex and highly regulated industry sector, the legal function is adept at providing counsel that is technically precise in addition to being business savvy.