Team size: Seven

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

In essence, our legal strategy ensures that resilience is not an accident, but a deliberate and integrated capability that protects and drives Grupo Rotoplas’ core business.Our legal function at Grupo Rotoplas transforms from a reactive brake to a strategic enabler, integrating agility into our DNA. Our strategy aligns with business objectives and our “more and better water” purpose, resting on three pillars:

Proactive Risk Intelligence and Mitigation: We anticipate crises through continuous risk mapping and horizon scanning, addressing supply chain, regulatory, geopolitical, and climate-related disruptions. Legally, this means strengthening commercial agreements with robust force majeure, price adjustment, and supply diversification clauses. This proactive stance provides commercial teams with security and flexibility, protecting margins and supporting financial health and service delivery.

Agile and Centralised Crisis Management: When crises occur, we prioritise speed, clarity, and control. The legal team is central to our cross-functional crisis management committees and protocols, providing immediate, actionable advice to leadership. Legally, this involves assessing contractual obligations, ensuring compliance, managing and or aligning communications, and protecting operating licenses. Our guidance creates pathways, not obstacles, enabling the business to adapt, pivot, and continue serving customers while protecting employees, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic and logistics disruptions.

Transforming Crisis into Strategic Opportunity: We view crises as catalysts for positive transformation, deeply integrating legal strategy with long-term business objectives and ESG principles. Legally, this involves advising on operational restructuring, exploring sustainable business models, and leveraging regulatory changes (e.g., water scarcity regulations) as competitive advantages. By integrating legal and ESG, we strengthen our brand, increase investor confidence, and ensure a profitable and sustainable business model, transforming legal into a driver of long-term value creation.

Our legal strategy deliberately integrates resilience as a core capability, protecting and driving Grupo Rotoplas’ business.