Mexico Teams 2017
| FEMSA
FEMSA
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Legal manager, Maricel Álvarez Chavarría, is a key leader since he...
| Coca-Cola FEMSA
The Coca-Cola Company’s largest bottler, Coca Cola FEMSA, was founded in 1991 as a joint venture between the US beverage company and Monterrey-based FEMSA. Today the company earns around $11bn...
| Coca-Cola FEMSA
With a presence in Colombia for over a decade, Coca-Cola FEMSA currently operates seven bottling plants located in major production centres in the country and employs approximately 5,000 people that...
| Coca-Cola FEMSA
Silvia Barrero, legal and corporate affairs vice president, leads an eight-lawyer in-house legal team for Coca-Cola FEMSA in Colombia. She leads the legal team drawing on more than 15 years...
| Coca-Cola
Operating in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama since 2003, Coca-Cola FEMSA currently has a substantial presence in the region with its five plants and 32 distribution centres that allow...
| Coca-Cola FEMSA
Coca-Cola FEMSA was set up in Argentina in October 1991, with Coca-Cola FEMSA de Buenos Aires being acquired by the company later in 1997. Coca-Cola FEMSA is the largest franchise...
FEMSA is a leading multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Mexico City that boasts revenues in excess of US$18bn. It operates Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world, OXXO, the largest convenience store chain in Mexico, and is the second-largest shareholder in international brewery company Heineken. Comprised of lawyers with impeccable commercial acumen and an ability to effectively manage legal spend, FEMSA’s strong legal team has gained a reputation for being able to effortlessly manage legal and compliance risks. Led by Carlos Eduardo Aldrete Ancira – a lawyer with extensive experience in international business and financial transactions, debt issuances and corporate restructurings and substantial expertise in securities and private M&A, acquired over the course of the last 20 years in the role – the team provide strategic leadership and direction for all legal matters concerning the day-to-day operations of FEMSA’s various business units. The legal unit has been widely praised for its work on various acquisitions conducted by FEMSA across Latin America, contributing to the group’s efforts to diversify its retail chain and considerably extended its footprint in small-format retail chains in Mexico, Chile and Colombia. In particular, Aldrete’s team has impressed with its swift execution of an acquisition of the Chilean convenience store operator Big John in 2016. Given its renowned status and solid growth prospects, the acquisition of Big John is likely to enhance FEMSA’s presence in Chile.
