About

Vanessa Boer has served as legal and compliance director at Bemis Latin America since 2017, bringing her almost 20 years of experience of in-house legal positions with particular expertise in compliance, regulations, IP, labour, environmental, commercial and corporate legal matters. Bemis is one of the largest packaging companies in Latin America and part of the larger Bemis corporation based in the US. It produces a variety of packages for the food, beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, personal hygiene, domestic cleaning, medical-hospital and pet food markets. Describing her influence and talent, a nominator describes Boer as a, ‘very practical and efficient [lawyer], and has a very rare sensitivity regarding corporate fairness. In favour of the company, Boer goes beyond her ordinary attributions, proactively’.