Colombia Teams 2019
| Cargill
Cargill
| Cargill
General counsel, technology and commercial | QBE Insurance
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured? We work as one team under a regional service delivery model in which we have commercial lawyers who work and...
| Cargill Turkey
Food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services conglomerate Cargill has been growing in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa (METNA) region in recent years. During this time, the...
| Cargill International
American global trading corporation Cargill, the world’s largest independent oil and agricultural trader, has been an established presence in Switzerland since 1965. Deputy general counsel for the entire company and...
Senior commercial counsel – operations and technology | QBE Insurance Group Limited
Kirsty Cargill has been described by nominators as ‘a talented lawyer’ who has led large telecommunications projects including a global data and analytics platform, global telecommunications deals and transformation projects....
Cargill produces agricultural services, crop and livestock, food, health and pharmaceutical, industrial and financial risk management and raw materials. The largest privately held corporation in the US in terms of...
| Cargill
Cargill is a global corporation that provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world. It has been active in Italy since 1962 and now has around...
| Cargill
Cargill has been active in Switzerland since 1956 and employs more than 400 people at its headquarters in Geneva. Switzerland is a critical location for Cargill with the global trading...
| Cargill
The American multinational Cargill has had a presence in Central America since 1969 and today its regional operations cover three business units with 11,000 employees, 39 facilities and an estimated...
| Cargill
Within their Argentina operations, Cargill’s in-house legal team is a very well embedded function with a track record of success and immense experience within the team. This is exemplified by...
Cargill’s business in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru is managed by a legal team of five lawyers and an assistant led by senior commercial lawyer Maria del Mar Bonilla Uribe. Bonilla reports to Michelle Canelo, who is responsible for Central America and Colombia and is located in Honduras. Bonilla is supported by four outstanding lawyers, who are subject specialists joining Cargill through the acquisition Bucanero and Campollo, each of whom have made a major impact. The new team members are Felipe Arias, located in Cali, who at the date of acquisition in June, 2017, had five years of experience in Bucanero and Alejandra Gomez, located in Bucaramanga with eight years of experience in Campollo in November 2018. The team also includes Yesly Rojas and Katherine Valverde, located in Bucaramanga who joined from Campollo. During the last year, the new members and the team as a whole worked on the acquisition of Bucanero and the integration Campollo into the Cargill organisation. This involved a Chapter 11 reorganisation process before the Superintendence of Companies, which Bonilla describes as, ‘a constant challenge, in terms of decision-making’. She explains: ‘Our vision as a team is to cultivate and maintain an effective ethics and compliance programme under a corporate-wide framework, with a proactive culture, emphasising in business partnering and consistent application of training, assessments and risk prioritisation across the business’.
