About

Taking charge of a team of 17 in her role as general counsel for Walmart Argentina, Brenda Puig has provided the Argentinian subsidiary of the world’s largest company with excellent leadership and consistent safeguarding against the diverse issues it faces in the country. A competent lawyer with a ‘high profile in her industry’ and a management style dedicated to ‘getting the team involved in the business and finding ways to add value’, Puig stresses that it has been a ‘priority’ to look for the most innovative ways of working, making her department’s processes as ‘efficient and simple’ as possible with a constant eye on managing expenses. With a solid reporting line to the Walmart International general counsel, Puig states that Argentina is a ‘very challenging market from a business standpoint, even more so during the last years’. Results for the legal team at the retail giant are predicated on being flexible ‘in order to be of help to the business, without compromising our ethics and compliance standards’. Assuming her current role in 2011, Puig is known in the market for being ‘a versatile lawyer with a vast experience and knowledge of the major retail market’. Before her move in-house, Puig spent six years practicing at M&M Bomchil Abogados in Buenos Aires.