About

Diana Leiva is a highly-rated legal professional with over two decades of experience providing legal advice to multinational companies across Latin and Central America. Described as a ‘detail-oriented professional’ and ‘effective team player’, Leiva is known for her strong expertise in providing assessment on issues related to the structuring of contracts and project finance negotiations. Based in Mexico City, Leiva manages the legal department for the North and Central America region of the engineering and construction company Techint Group. Upon joining the business, she rapidly established herself as a highly reliable expert in corporate restructurings and negotiations taking place in Central America and developed a first-rate reputation among co-workers for achieving the best possible outcomes for her company. Leiva has been involved in a number of notable transactions over the course of her career at Techint Group, including the financing transaction for Norte II Combined Cycle Power-Plant in Mexico that was named power deal of the year by an industry publication in 2012. Leiva previously worked as a procurement fund coordinator at the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature for a year and prior to that held a number of in-house legal roles in the Dominican Republic.