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Yana samuels
senior legAl counsel
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ate and prepare contractual agreements, ensuring mandatory legal filings are done with all relevant private and government agencies and advocate on behalf of the business in adversarial circumstances.”
Department
More and more, the legal department has become a reference point and guide to all teams, taking the initiative to train internal stakeholders and make them better equipped to execute. “We train the marketing and sales departments on commercial best practices and understanding contracts. [We] have conducted cross departmental training on employment liability, health and safety issues, proceeds of crime act and consumer protection legislative requirements, to name a few,” Samuels informed.
Their support is quite critical to the business function and is guided by some key considerations in the formulation and execution of any business strategy or process.
These factors include 1: What are the risks, legal and otherwise, with the implementation of such? and 2: What processes, documentation or other security needs to be in place to ensure the company can proceed as it so desires?
The department works with all stakeholders to identify the issues and take the lead in ensuring
The word ‘legal’ readily evokes thoughts of a lawsuit. However, as it relates to the department effecting this function in the company, there’s more to the legal department than that.
Senior Legal Counsel, Yana Samuels, breaks down the role of her team in ensuring that internal processes and protocols adhere to local, Gruppo Campari and universal legal best practices. She asserts that from a high-level perspective, their primary focus encom- passes risk management and ensures collaboration between business strategy and legal compliance.
Listing some of their crucial functions, Samuels said, “We work with all departments to negoti-
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