When Roche Group acquired biotechnology company Genentech for $46.8 billion in March 2009, it was faced with integrating the companies’ U.S. operations — and two in-house legal departments — as efficiently as possible.

The Swiss pharmaceutical maker met this challenge in large part through the Roche Law Department’s innovative use of technology, which General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Frederick Kentz calls “instrumental in our harmonization efforts.”

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