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The legal team at Pentair, a diversified industrial manufacturing company, are faced with political, regulatory and economic risks. During the past two years, the team has been heavily involved in pushing key initiatives such as the acquisition of all outstanding shares of capital stock of ERICO for approximately $1.8bn. Pentair underwent a company-wide restructure in 2014, which saw the legal team dealing with new financial and regulatory hurdles. The completion of the cross-border merger of Pentair Ltd., a stock corporation organised under the laws of Switzerland and listed on the NYSE, into Pentair PLC, a public limited company organised under the laws of the Republic of Ireland, meant a significant change for the company. The cross-border merger effected a change in the place of incorporation of the publicly traded parent company of Pentair from Switzerland to Ireland. The legal team’s work to make this successful was crucial, as was its coordination and management of outside counsel.