No longer gifted a limitless budget for outside spend, GCs are under pressure to deliver the smooth running of all moving parts in the department (and beyond), plus timely and watertight legal advice. Continue reading “Tick tock… the new age of legal operations”
GC: What are you currently working on in the Latin American legal team at Philip Morris?
Nicolás Cuadros (NC): When I was in charge of leading the Colombian legal department, we took a very interesting journey: the launch of a product called ‘IQOS’, a revolutionary tobacco heating system designed to heat, rather than burn a specially designed tobacco stick called Heets. Continue reading “In conversation: Nicolás Cuadros, senior counsel, Philip Morris International”
On the morning of Pope Francis’s arrival in Colombia – and as Bogotá went into security lockdown – The Legal 500 and sponsor firm Posse Herrera Ruiz held a breakfast roundtable on cybersecurity and data protection. Continue reading “Colombia Roundtable: Cybersecurity and data protection in the age of hacking”
You may not have heard the term ‘gamification’, but the chances are you’ve experienced a form of it. Continue reading “Playing the game”
For those well-read followers of Twitter among you, the phrase ‘premium mediocre’ will be a familiar concept. I stumbled across it last year when reading David Walsh’s always stimulating column in The Sunday Times. The phrase was coined by blogger Venkatesh Rao, and I’ll let him explain it: Continue reading “Defining value”
This interview was undertaken as part of GC magazine’s research into diversity and inclusion, in association with Paul Hastings, by Catherine McGregor. Continue reading “Wanji Walcott, GC, Paypal”
It’s been a turbulent few years for many of those in the upper echelons of Brazilian politics and business. Around the world, headlines have been filled with salacious tales of corruption, perhaps most notably the bribery and kickback scandal emanating from semi-state-owned oil company Petrobras, embroiling many high-profile individuals and entities across the region. Continue reading “Ringing the changes: Combating corruption in South America”
GC Magazine: Can you tell us a little bit about the challenges facing the financial sector in Colombia?
Francisco Baquerizo (FB): This is a very active jurisdiction for producing regulation. Laws and decrees are constantly being issued, so that poses a big challenge to companies in different sectors – pharmaceutical, construction services, financial, health. Continue reading “In conversation: Francisco Baquerizo, general counsel and company secretary, Citibank Colombia”
Academic and Thinkers50 honouree Rachel Botsman is focused on trust. Of late, that focus has looked at how technology has shifted our understanding of trust and impacted on both our personal and professional lives. Continue reading “Trust me, I’m a lawyer…”
GC Magazine: Could you tell me, first of all, how you came to be working in-house, and at Grupo Prodeco?
Oscar Eduardo Gómez (OEG): 25 years ago, I started working at a law firm, then I jumped into the financial sector, as general counsel of different financial companies. Continue reading “In conversation: Oscar Eduardo Gómez, Vice President legal, Grupo Prodeco”