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One of the most impressive achievements in Alan Moya’s legal career has been fundamentally altering the culture of SNC-Lavalin Group in Chile, introducing legal training to employees across the company. ‘My goal is to offer expedite and integral legal services to my clients’. he states. ‘However, I believe that the legal influence should go beyond just providing on-demand answers. In my opinion, companies can benefit if legal analysis comes from everyone. For these purposes, I engage in permanent training and I try to be very didactic when I explain my opinions to my non-lawyers colleagues. This is an ongoing process, but I already started to see changes in simple things like, for example, an engineer using legal terms in their letters to a counterparty, or using capitals for terms defined in a contract’. As SNC-Lavalin’s focus in Latin America is primarily on providing engineering services to mining and oil and gas companies, the recent commodities crisis has impacted the company, with recent cost-cutting measures requiring Moya and his team to be more involved in providing business advice as well as legal security. Previously, Moya worked at Pattern Energy, where he participated in the development, financing and construction of major renewable energy projects. In his first in-house legal role, Moya founded the legal department at Echeverria Izquierdo, a public infrastructure company with a headcount of approximately 6,000 employees and presence in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.