| Scotiabank
Scotiabank
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The legal team is structured in predetermined roles, in which each...
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? The legal team of Scotiabank Dominican Republic is structured as follows:...
| Scotiabank Peru
The Scotiabank Peru legal team is made up of 70 members, distributed across five specialised units. The legal team was involved in the legal activities of the merger between Banco...
| Scotiabank Mexico
Scotiabank has a major presence in Mexico with a full service expanding across the Latin American region. Eduardo Fernandez García-Travesí, deputy general director legal, leads the highly skilled and recognised...
| Scotiabank Colpatria
In July 2018, Colpatria and Scotiabank announced their merger to strengthen the position of both banks within Colombia drawing on Scotiabank’s international resources and Colpatria’s local presence and knowledge. The...
| Scotiabank República Dominicana
Scotiabank’s operations in the Domincan Republic date back to 1920 and today its business in the country encompasses a network of more than 2,000 employees, 90 ATMs, 74 offices and...
| Scotiabank Chile
‘Trained to remain dynamic and flexible when facing complex legal challenges,’ Scotiabank Chile’s legal department is named by nominators as a vital contributor to the bank’s recent growth and development...
| Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets
The four-person Scotiabank global banking and markets legal team is empowered to work as independently as possible, making best use of the individual team members’ specific talents and specialisms and...
Scotiabank’s in-house legal department is recognised for its legal and commercial acumen, as well as its disciplined monitoring of the bank’s interests and obligations across the globe. The team is led by Ian Arellano, executive vice president and general counsel, who is also responsible for the corporate governance and corporate secretary department. The team is made up of top-quality professionals adept at legal matters pertaining to personal and commercial banking, wealth management, private banking, corporate and investment banking as well as capital markets. Scotiabank serves 25 million customers globally, is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges, employs 96,000 people and carries assets of more than C$947bn. In October 2018, Scotiabank announced it had acquired MD Financial Management, Canada’s leading provider of financial services to physicians and their families, in a deal that brought more than C$49bn in assets under management and administration to Scotiabank’s Wealth Management business. The deal is one of many examples of the exemplary work of the in-house legal function at the bank.
