About

Chief legal officer at multi-business company Ultrapar Participações, since 2008, Sandra López Gorbe has built a reputation for being ‘a leader in best practices in the corporate governance and compliance area’. She is also ‘an expert in M&A and related financings’ according to commentators who point to her key role in the firm’s strong recent expansion both in Brazil and regionally, and that have given it operations in Mexico, Argentina, the USA and Venezuela. Recent transactional activity includes the successful completion of a $74m acquisition, via subsidiary Oxiteno, of Uruguay’s American Chemical in 2012; and a $457m association agreement with Imifarma for the acquisition of a 100% stake in Extrafarma.