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What are the most significant cases or transactions that your legal team has recently been involved in?

Compass Group is a global leader in food services. Our team of expert counsel advise and support all key head office functions, portfolio of global clients, and our legal teams around the world. Given the breadth of the group’s operations, the work of our lawyers requires adaptability, specialist knowledge and pragmatism.

In addition to an extensive workflow, our teams have focused on mitigating the impacts of the pandemic, renegotiating a variety of contracts, and assisting in the business’s recovery, to achieve pre-pandemic revenues. Our team is currently supporting the business in its next phase of revenue growth, whilst helping the business to manage the impacts of heightened inflation.

Recent transactions include the negotiation of complex multi-jurisdictional master services agreements with key global clients, as well as important supply agreements, working with our information technology on cyber security, responding to the crisis in Ukraine, completing several mergers and acquisitions, as we continue to expand our portfolio of brands focused on digital innovation and delivered-in solutions.

Did the pandemic lead to a lasting increase in the interaction your legal team has with the strategic plans of the company?

The pandemic has improved working relationships between our teams and business leaders within the group and has only served to cement the need for reliable, commercially minded legal counsel. Throughout the pandemic, our teams have partnered with a variety of stakeholders across our group functions, and our international businesses, to form a response to the crisis, contributing to the group’s recovery back to pre-pandemic revenues.

How do you suggest in-house lawyers build strong relationships with business partners?

The strongest relationships are built through teamworking, collaboration, respect and a deep understanding of our business. Legal counsel not only have a good understanding of their legal specialism, but they also have a strong commercial base. Our lawyers are integrated within the business teams and are an integral part of business process and decision making, contributing to sustainable business growth and success.

The unusual business environment created by the pandemic has been swiftly followed by the Ukraine crisis, and attendant supply chain costs rising and rising inflation. Are you now putting more emphasis on preparing for the unforeseen and, if so, what does this entail?

Given the nature of our business and the breadth of matters that our teams manage, our lawyers and other specialist professionals are incredibly adaptable and versatile. Members of our legal, secretarial, and ethics and integrity teams collaborate with their colleagues in other functions, as well as in operations, participating in several work groups focused on key areas, such as cybersecurity, climate change and supply chain integrity.

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