| IAG
IAG
Legal manager | Banco de Loja
General counsel | Hovione
Senior legal manager | Mondelēz International
General counsel, governance, risk and compliance officer | Eneva
Gerente legal | Interbank
Director de Finanzas y Administración_x000D_ | Hoteles City
With more than 10 years of experience within Hoteles City, Santiago Parra has held different positions and has been in charge of the relationship with financial and banking institutions, with...
Chief legal officer | GENCO General Contractors
Jose Wilmer Meléndez Sanago, is well known for his sense of justice, listening skills, and fact-based opinions. His ability to argue and his assertiveness are among his most notable qualities,...
General counsel and company secretary | Iberdrola
Director and legal counsel | American Express
General counsel | PwC Middle East
Legal manager | Banco de Loja
| Jardine Cycle Carriage
Spanish South America regional counsel | IBM
Notary lawyer | Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club
Director of legal and regulatory affairs | Grupo Vimenca
Legal manager | Banco Múltiple Lafise
Legal manager | Perenco Colombia
General counsel | CNR
Legal manager | Alianza Team
General counsel | Hovione
Senior legal manager | Novelis
Senior legal manager | Mondelēz International
General counsel, governance, risk and compliance officer | Eneva
Legal manager | Banco Santander Brasil
| Diageo Ireland
Senior legal counsel - Hunter Valley and Interstate | ARTC
Senior legal counsel | RLH Properties
General counsel | PwC Middle East
General secretary and first deputy secretary | Iberdrola
Director and employment law counsel | American Express
Corporate Counsel | Flash
Spanish South America regional counsel | IBM Mexico
Regional legal and compliance manager | OLX Group
Director legal and compliance Southern Cone Latam | MSD
General counsel - Argentina and Uruguay | Zurich Argentina Group
General counsel | CNR
Director of legal and regulatory affairs | Grupo Vimenca
Senior legal counsel | ÖBB Personenverkehr
General counsel | Ansaldo Energia
| Diageo
| Danaher Corporation (Diagnostics)
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured? Globally, the legal and compliance team at Danaher is divided by platforms (i.e. operating companies falling under the same function)...
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Aside from general counsel Central America and the Caribbean Zamira Zapata...
| Dasa – Diagnósticos das Américas
Acting head of legal | Alghanim Industries
Reflecting on his journey from international law firms in New York and Paris to the Alghanim Industries legal department in Kuwait, which he joined in 2007 and now leads, Santiago...
Led by New York-based general counsel Timothy Chow, Diageo’s Latin America and Caribbean legal team is a brand protection powerhouse. Given the huge range of products Diageo produces, with a...
| Diageo
In the last year, Diageo’s Mexico legal team has consulted on the US$400m acquisition of Tequila Don Julio as part of the firm’s larger investment plans in the country. The...
| Diageo
British-headquartered multinational beverages company Diageo owns some of the most famous alcoholic brands in the world. Heading the legal team of Diageo’s Mexican subsidiary is Zamira Zapata who, within five...
Head of corporate legal | Urbaser Group
Described by sources as ‘an outstanding lawyer with a high personal commitment and exceptional technical and people management skills’, ‘a very proactive and efficient lawyer’, ‘a problem solver’ and ‘a...
Head of legal | Banco CTT
An increasingly respected voice in the Portuguese in-house market, Tiago Matias is a highly skilled lawyer, with vast experience in private practice and in-house roles. He started his career with...
| Diageo Colombia
One of the premier alcoholic distillers in the world, and until April 2017 the largest alcoholic beverage company globally by market capitalisation, UK-headquartered Diageo boasts an enviable range of brands....
| SalomãoZoppi Diagnósticos
SalomãoZoppi Diagnósticos contributes to the health of Brazilians by running laboratories that utilise some of the most modern scientific and technological concepts. Ana Luiza Duarte de Barros Dourado joined the...
Legal Manager | Guy Carpenter
Silvia Santiago is the legal manager at Guy Carpenter, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan that specialises in risk and reinsurance. Santiago is proficient in technical and legal support in...
| IAG New Zealand
Nominators spoke highly of general counsel Blair Williams, general counsel of insurance company IAG New Zealand and the legal department he leads, one source stating that Williams ‘oversees a very...
General counsel | Holcim Argentina
A brilliant lawyer with strong skills in intellectual property and contract negotiation, Santiago Ojea Quintana has been the general counsel of Holcim Argentina since July 2014. Known as a ‘proactive...
Legal manager | Honda Argentina
Santiago Monti is the legal manager of Honda Argentina, a subsidiary of the multinational automobile manufacturer, a position he has held since March 2016. Monti joined Honda in 2011 and...
Regional legal manager | OLX
‘I believe that having an engaged team of well-prepared lawyers is the key to going smoothly through long days and achieving good results’, explains Santiago Gini, regional legal manager of...
Senior regional legal and compliance manager | OLX
OLX is a global online marketplace that operates 17 brands in more than 40 countries, employing around 5,000 people worldwide. Found in 2006, OLX is the largest online classified advertisements...
Regional legal counsel (South and West Latin America) | Louis Dreyfus Company
Santiago Codazzi is the regional legal counsel covering South and West Latin America at Louis Dreyfus Company, a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods, active in over 100 countries...
Legal and compliance director | JLL
Gustavo Biagioli started working at JLL in June 2014. Before that, he worked for RR Donnelley (printing services), Software AG and IT giant Hewlett Packard. In all, he has dedicated...
| Diageo
Diageo produces some of the world’s most iconic drink brands and Africa makes up 12% of the multinational’s net global sales, a sizeable proportion which its legal team in the...
With some of the world’s best known brands in its portfolio including Guinness, Smirnoff and Ciroc, global alcoholic drinks producer Diageo has a worldwide presence including notable operations in Central...
| Diageo Colombia
Diageo is the number one premier alcoholic distiller in the world boasting an enviable range of brands with more than 180 different products. The company’s operation in Colombia is one...
| Diageo
Diageo’s ownership of major Irish brands Guinness and Baileys Irish Cream means it occupies a special place in the Irish business landscape. Indeed, regional counsel, Richard Kindred mentions that perhaps...
Executive director and international counsel, Latin America | Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Santiago Rabassa is described by one nominator as ‘a seasoned business adviser who can always find ways to solve even the most difficult problems’. Since 2015 he has supported the...
| Jardine Cycle & Carriage (JC&C)
Jardine Cycle & Carriage (JC&C) is a leading listed company in Singapore with a market capitalisation of approximately US$11.5bn as of November 2017. Headed by group general counsel, director of...
General counsel | Elementia
During his five-year tenure at Elementia, the Mexican building materials conglomerate, Santiago Bernard Covelo has impressed with his work on a number of high profile corporate transactions, such as acquisitions...
The in-house legal team at drinks multinational Diageo has a sprawling global mandate: the company’s 140 lawyers cover the 180 countries it does business in, all from 40 countries where...
Head of the legal corporate area | Grupo Urbaser
Having worked in-house for over 30 years, Santiago Sainz de Baranda y Casado is widely praised by peers as demonstrated by the quantity and quality of positive testimonials provided by...
Director of legal services | Iberdrola
Based in Bilbao, multinational electric utility Iberdrola earns over €30bn in annual revenues and is an international leader committed to low-emission energies. As the company’s director of legal services, Santiago...
Senior counsel, legal and business affairs | FOX Networks Group Portugal
Described as a ‘rising star’ by nominating sources, Tiago da Mota is responsible for providing legal support for the operations of Fox Networks Group in Portugal and Portuguese African countries,...
General counsel | Sonangol EP
Created as a public company in 1976, Sonangol EP is the sole concessionaire for oil and gas exploration on the subsoil and continental shelf of Angola. General counsel of the...
Guinness in Cameroon has a history dating back to the 19th century, when European traders first brought stout to the African continent. The traditional Irish alcoholic beverage has since become...
IAG (Insurance Australia Group) is Australia and New Zealand’s largest general insurance company. Operating in both countries as well as in Asia, IAG is the name behind some of the most trusted and respected insurance brands in those areas. The Sydney-based legal team has responsibility over IAG’s corporate legal, governance and compliance with Australian regulatory requirements and is led by group general counsel and company secretary Chris Bertuch. Bertuch is supported by deputy group general Rebecca Farrell who recently joined the company bringing with her over 20 years of professional legal experience from roles in both Australia and Switzerland. Notable activities and achievements the legal function has been involved in 2017 include the purchase of additional catastrophe reinsurance cover for the Group and creating a single Australian division to simplify IAG’s operating model, bringing together the former Australian Consumer, Australian Business, Operations and Satellite Divisions. The team was also instrumental gaining approval from the Federal Court of Australia to consolidate nine of its general insurance licences into two, a key part of IAG’s plan to become a simpler, more efficient and agile business.