Jones Day

Guillermo Larrea leads Jones Day’s Latin American Compliance practice. Guillermo’s highly regarded reputation is attributed to high-profile investigations, which has developed into a full Digital Compliance Practice. He has a prolific career advising Fortune 500 companies concerning investigations and evaluations of international relevance related to corruption, money laundering, data management, cyber-incidents and crypto-related projects. Guillermo’s practice covers corporate governance, anti-corruption, privacy and cybersecurity for domestic and multinational companies, and is developing further in the blockchain and cryptocurrency arena, which reaches into the areas of compliance, regulatory, privacy and anti-money laundering investigations. He has deep experience collaborating with authorities and investigating corruption allegations under Latin American national anticorruption systems and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He advises boards of directors and audit committees regarding strategic planning, crisis management, fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, and data preservation, and has addressed data-driven concerns around data processing, cross border transfers of data, data breach incident-response, cloud computing, the development of digital platforms for e-commerce, and the development of technologies such as IoT, FinTech, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies, with emphasis on their security and compliance obligations. Guillermo has been a key figure in changing the compliance culture in the Latin American region.