General counsel and secretary | The AES Corporation
Adviel Centeno Mayta has been general counsel and secretary at The AES Corporation since 2010 having previously served in executive in-house legal positions and private practice at Bufete MF&Co, SAB...
Legal country manager | Walmart (Corporación de Supermercados Unidos)
Alejandra Bogantes joined the Costa Rican arm of American multinational retail corporation Walmart in September 2009, as a regional lawyer of agro-industrial development, and assumed her current position as legal...
Head of legal, patents and compliance | Bayer
Alejandra Castro is the head of legal, patents and compliance at Bayer Central America and the Caribbean. During her time at Bayer she has encouraged a business partner model for...
Head of legal unit | Multi Inversiones Mi Banco
Multi Inversiones Mi Banco was founded in April 1992 as an entity that is a part of the financial system of El Salvador, consisting of 129 members and 2,347 shares....
Senior legal counsel | Tetra Pak
Alejandro Royo is a strategic legal counsel with more than 15 years of experience working in global and multinational companies across different industries, with broad knowledge and expertise in handling...
Regional legal director Central America | Colgate-Palmolive
Alfonso Videche joined Colgate-Palmolive in 2008 as their regional legal director for Central America and the Dominican Republic. During his ten year post he has been a specialist of the...
Chief legal officer | Mesoamerica
Alfredo Apestegui is a lawyer with over 14 years of professional experience in legal and tax matters in the US and in Latin America. He joined the leading Central America...
General counsel | LifeMiles
Ana Carol de Benedetti has had an extensive career in the airline industry, having overseen legal entities and operations in Central America, South America and the US, having started working...
Legal and corporate affairs manager, North Latin American operations, Panama and Caribbean cluster | Kimberly-Clark Central American Holdings
With more than twenty years of experience as a lawyer, Ana Carolina Alcalá Wilson has gained a steady reputation in several jurisdictions in Latin America for her legal talent. During...
Legal affairs director | L’Oréal Central America
Ana Carolina García joined L’Oréal Venezuela in 2010 as legal manager, where she claims she immediately fell in love with the cosmetics company: ‘I could mix the legal knowledge, commercial...
Legal Counsel Latin America | National Instruments
Andrés Morales is a tenacious leader and trusted advisor, with a track record of obtaining corporate goals and developing and managing legal teams in multinational companies and top law firms....
Regional legal and regulatory director | Digicel
Mobile phone network provider, Digicel, operates in 31 markets across the Caribbean, Central America and Oceania regions and serves 14 million customers. Leading the Panamanian legal and regulatory team since...
Legal manager of Nicaragua and Honduras | Walmart México y Centroamérica
Augusta Fernández Siu is a Nicaraguan lawyer and public notary with 16 years of experience, including almost eight years in the retail market. Fernández joined Walmart in 2009, responsible for...
Vice president of legal | Banco Panameño de la Vivienda
Esteemed in-house counsel Belisario Castillo Sáenz has gained much attention for the changes he has implemented at Banco Panameño de la Vivienda (Banvivienda), a well-established Panamanian bank offering personal, private,...
Country legal manager | Grupo Roble
Carlos M. Cartín Feoli is a Costa Rican lawyer and notary public, currently acting as the country legal manager for the regional real estate developer Grupo Roble. In this role,...
Legal director | Real Hotels & Resorts
Carlos Villalobos Soto started his career in private practice as an associate for Pacheco Coto, then in June 2014 made the move in-house when he was appointed as legal manager...
Corporate legal manager | Grupo Motta Servicios
Clarissa Surgeon’s legal career has spanned close to 20 years, with positions in law firms and corporations in Panama City, New York and Brussels, working across various legal fields, primarily...
General counsel | Walmart Central America
As the general counsel of Walmart Central America, Claudia Gonzalez Montt joined the retail giant’s legal team as general counsel in August 2016 and currently leads a legal team of...
Chief legal counsel | DELSUR
Since 2010, Claudia Tomasino de Crespo has worked for DELSUR, a private electricity provider that has contributed to the economic and social development of El Salvador by serving around 390,000...
General counsel and country compliance head | Citibank Costa Rica
A longstanding and respected in-house lawyer, Cristina Alfaro has served as the general counsel and country compliance head for Citibank in Costa Rica for the last seventeen years. She provides...
Chief legal officer, general counsel, corporate secretary | BAC Credomatic
Daniel Pérez-Umaña is the chief legal officer of BAC Credomatic (BAC), a financial group operating in 11 jurisdictions throughout Central America, Mexico, the US, the Caribbean and is currently Central...
Vice president legal and regulatory Mexico and Central America | Mastercard
With over 15 years in the technology industry, David Barajas is considered as a specialist lawyer in the sector, serving first as legal manager at Oracle and then at Mastercard...
Vice president legal and secretary | Banco Agrícola – Grupo Bancolombia
Dionisio Ismael Machuca Massis has served as the vice president legal and secretary for Banco Agrícola for four years where he has worked with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve a better...
Legal affairs manager | Claro
Edgar Del Valle is the legal manager of Claro’s operations in Costa Rica, having first joined the company in 2012 after a career in private practice, in-house in the financial...
Vice-president | Corporación Minera Dominicana
Elizabeth Mena Fernández has over 20 years of experience advising multinationals in both greenfield and brownfield projects in highly regulated sectors. Mena joined Corporación Minera Dominicana (Cormidom) in 2013, to...
Vice president for legal affairs | Grupo Financiero Ficohsa
Ernesto Alfonso Carrasco Castro started his career at Honduran financial group, Grupo Financiero Ficohsa in 2000, beginning as an officer in the insurance company and since then climbing up the...
Senior vice president legal affairs – Latin America and Caribbean | PriceSmart
In his role as senior vice president legal affairs – Latin America and Caribbean, Ernesto Grijalva brings over 25 years’ experience in international business law to his responsibilities of overseeing...
Regional legal manager for Central America and the Caribbean | PAE Centroamérica
Fernando López is a business-focused legal counsel with more than ten years of experience working in multinational companies across different industries, with a broad knowledge and expertise in handling local...
Legal manager of the legal, ethics and business integrity department for PAC MCO (cluster) – Latin American region | Sanofi
Gabriel Tapia Calvino has extensive experience of managing corporate compliance in a number of different businesses. In 2014 he joined multinational pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, initially as the Latin America regional...
Legal director | Pfizer Central America and Caribbean
Gabriela Bogantes joined Pfizer as legal counsel to support Pfizer Diversified Businesses of animal health, consumer and nutritional businesses, as well as the enabling functions of the company across all...
Senior legal counsel | The Kraft Heinz Company
Gloriana Picado started working at The Kraft Heinz Company in February 2016, when there were no employees physically located in Central America. It was Picado’s job to get to know...
Legal director | Sansoucí
In 2013, after a career in private practice, Héctor Álvarez was presented with a new professional opportunity to serve as legal director of the Sansoucí Group, an entity that within...
Senior legal manager | Fresenius Medical Care Panama
In her current position as senior legal manager, Ingrid Valdes Vasquez is in charge of all legal operations of Central America, Panama and the Caribbean for Fresenius Medical Care, a...
Senior director of legal advice and general counsel | Copa Airlines
Ivette Lorena Franco Koroneos has served as a senior director of legal and general counsel at Copa Airlines since 1999, and is one of the most influential people in Central...
Legal manager CARICAM | GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Jacobo Alter joined British pharmaceutical and science-led global healthcare company GSK in November 2014, overseeing the Caribbean and Central America regions. Over the last few years GSK has driven its...
Chief legal officer | Belize Bank
Jacqueline Marshalleck serves as the chief legal officer for Belize Bank, the oldest and largest bank in Belize, with a network of 13 branches that covers the entire country. Marshalleck...
Regional legal manager | Laureate International Universities
Javier Pacheco Mauro started his career back in 1998, working at well-known local law firms that helped him develop as a commercial lawyer and notary public. During this period he...
Legal assistant manager | Claro CR Telecomunicaciones
In 2013 Jenniffer Salazar Ramírez joined Claro as a lawyer when she was 24 years old, and in January 2016 she was promoted to assistant manager – the lawyer in...
Legal manager | Energuate
In 2004 Jorge Mario Colindres Sandoval started working at Energuate, Guatemala’s largest power distribution company, serving over 1.6 million regulated consumers, initially as the internal legal advisor. From 2004-2008, his...
Legal head of Central America and Caribbean | Novartis
Jorge Romo has served as legal head of Novartis since 2013, after an in-house career that has seen him at the top of the pharmaceutical industry at both Fedefarma and...
Head of legal and compliance (Latin America) | Empresas Adoc
Jose Antonio Polanco is a highly experienced head of legal and compliance with a strong demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. He has significantly assisted the expansion of...
Legal manager | Suez Central America, Caribbean, Colombia and Ecuador (CACCE)
José Barría is a Panamanian lawyer in charge of the legal department of the business unit of the French group, Suez, overseeing the jurisdictions of Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia...
General counsel | Cuestamoras Salud
Jose David Zuniga joined Cuestamoras Salud, a leading provider in comprehensive solutions for personal care, in November 2015. Zuniga started his career as a paralegal in a small boutique firm...
Director of legal affairs Latin America | SBA Communications Corporation
Jose María Etchegaray has been at SBA Communications Corporation (SBA) since 2010 and its director of legal affairs in Latin America since 2016. Etchegaray manages all operations and regulatory legal...
Legal and regulatory counsel | TIGO Costa Rica
Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Cordero has served as the legal and regulatory counsel for international telecommunications and media company, Millicom International Cellular (Tigo) for the last seven years, where he has most...
Legal and external affairs director and general counsel | Dole
Juan Carlos Rojas has been with Dole since 1994 as legal and external affairs director and general counsel of its subsidiary Standard Fruit Co. He is a vastly experienced corporate...
Legal head | Uno Guatemala
For the past seven years Juan Francisco Alfaro Del Cid has served as the legal head for leading fuel distributor in Central America, Uno Guatemala, a Royal Dutch Shell licensee...
Chief counsel Andean, Pacific and Central American countries | Mondelēz International
Juan Pablo Restrepo currently serves as the chief counsel for multinational confectionery, food and beverage company, Mondelēz International, covering legal and compliance, and security responsibilities for Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru,...
Senior legal counsel and group manager – global antitrust and trade relations | Procter & Gamble
Juan Sebastian Crespo started working for Procter & Gamble in 2009 in Bogota, Colombia, first as a scholar and then as legal supervisor. In 2012 he was transferred to Panama...
Legal manager | Banco de la Producción (BANPRO)
In 2000 Julio Reyes began his in-house career when he worked at PRIBANCO (Primer Banco Inmobiliario) as a loans officer for a few months. That year he was hired by...
Director and general counsel | Citi Guatemala
Karin Herman Zachrisson joined Citi in 1997 as legal counsel for Guatemala and since then she has held various senior positions in Guatemala and in the regional office for Citi...
Regional legal director Greater Caribbean region | Colgate-Palmolive (Dominican Republic)
Karla Gross Veras is an experienced in-house counsel and compliance officer within multinational corporations at a local and regional level. As the regional legal director for Colgate-Palmolive Dominican Republic, she...
Legal director | Grupo Roble
Lucila María Argueta de Contreras joined Grupo Roble in 1996, where she was initially in charge of judicial matters and in 1997 gained additional responsibility, taking charge of the notarial...
Regional director Legal services and corporate secretary | Scotiabank
In December 2017, Luis Enrique Gómez-Portuguez left Del Monte after almost ten years as their legal director and corporate relations for the CECAB region. He went on to assume the...
Vice president of legal | Establishment Labs
Establishment Labs is a global, privately held, high-tech medical device and aesthetics company that designs, manufactures and markets a product portfolio consisting of advanced silicone-filled breast and body shaping implants....
Costa Rican legal services office director | Scotiabank de costa rica
Manfred Antonio Sáenz Montero has worked within the Costa Rican financial system for the last twenty years, either as in-house counsel and director, or being responsible for legal services units....
General counsel | Tigo
Tigo is the primary brand name of Millicom, offering a range of digital services to over 60 million people in 14 markets. Manuel Roberto Sisniega has been an integral asset...
General counsel and senior vice-president | Citibank
Marcela Bernal de Fontanals joined Citi El Salvador in 2000 as a legal assistant for the corporate bank, when Citi’s presence was limited to a single branch office and two...
General counsel | Amzak Capital Management
Maria Beatriz Beltranena Wer has served as general counsel for Amzak Capital Management for 12 years, where she manages the legal departments, transactions and legal affairs of Amzak’s active projects...
Legal manager | Grupo Rey
Maria Charris is a lawyer with over 15 years of professional experience who has served as the legal manager for Grupo Rey, one of the main Panamanian groups in the...
Vice president legal department and general secretary | Banistmo
Highly experienced financial in-house lawyer María Cristina Vilá de Van Hoorde has earned her title through working for multinational banks for the majority of her career, successfully supporting the franchises...
Head of legal and compliance Latin America | Hilti Latin America
Hilti Latin America provides leading technology to the global construction, energy and industry sectors. Globally, the company employs around 28,000 people in more than 120 countries with aims to reinforce...
General counsel and corporate affairs | Coca-Cola FEMSA
With more than 10 years of experience in corporate law, eight of which in regional roles, Maricel Alvarez is the general counsel at Coca-Cola FEMSA. She joined the company in...
Compliance officer and legal counsel | Centro Distribuidor
Marie Claire Palacios de Bauer started working in the legal industry early, commencing her first legal position during her first year of law school. Her first position was legal assistant...
General counsel | Florida Ice & Farm Company (FIFCO)
Mariel Picado Quevedo is the general counsel at Florida Ice and Farm Company (FIFCO), a publicly traded Costa Rican entity created in 1908. It serves as a holding company for...
Manager of legal affairs | Energía del Pacífico
Since 2014 Mario Ayala Claros has served as manager of legal affairs at Energía del Pacífico, a company in charge of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a power...
Corporate regional legal manager Central America | Terra Petroleos (Grupo Terra)
At the beginning of 2009, Marysabel Maldonado de Coindet was selected as the only lawyer, alongside two engineers and two financial managers, to assist with due diligence for a divestment...
Legal director | Grupo Garnier
Founded in 1921 in Costa Rica, Grupo Garnier was the first advertising agency in Latin America and first customer relations management company in Central America. It has grown into a...
Legal counsel | Procter & Gamble
Michael Bruce currently serves as the legal manager for American multi-national consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble in Costa Rica. Prior to joining in 2013, he was a partner at...
Legal director for Central America and Colombia | Cargill
Longstanding and distinguished in-house lawyer Michelle Alexandra Canelo Juarez, has worked at Cargill since starting her career in 1998, assuming different roles and responsibilities along the way. She has been...
Legal counsel | Premium Restaurants of America
With more than 15 years of experience in the legal team, Mónica Estela Alvarez Viguri is a Mexican lawyer with extensive experience in corporate law. She possesses broad knowledge of...
Legal manager | Corporación Multi Inversiones
Since 2009 Monica Leal has served as legal manager of Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI) after nearly eight years in private practice at Consortium Legal in commercial and administrative civil litigation....
Legal manager DHL Express-Central America and Dominican Republic | Deutsche Post DHL – Global Business Services
Based in Costa Rica, Mónica Muñoz Herrera has been legal manager for Central America and the Dominican Republic at DHL Express Global Business Services since 2015. She has over 10...
Senior counsel Central America | Philip Morris International
As the senior counsel for Philip Morris International in Central America, Natalia Gaspar manages all legal aspects of the international business, to implement departmental practices and objectives across Central America....
Legal counsel | Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE)
Olger Méndez Rojas is the longstanding lawyer at RECOPE, one of Central America’s biggest companies in terms of annual sales revenues. To match its reputation as a leading company in...
Legal head | Banco Industrial El Salvador
With vast experience in leading banks in the country and the region, Orlando Zuniga started his work as a legal professional in the area of recruitment and registration, to later...
Senior Legal Manager Corporate and Commercial Banking | Scotiabank
Petra Froxina Batista Soto can point to fourteen years of experience practicing law, focusing her practice on providing advice in the areas of real estate, contracts, corporate and commercial law,...
General counsel | Cervecería Nacional Dominicana
Cervecería Nacional Dominicana (CND) is the Dominican Republic’s primary brewing company which has been operating since 1929 and is currently owned by AmBev and Grupo León Jimenes. The company has...
Legal counsel (Latin America) | Smith & Nephew
Ricardo A. Estrada has had a lengthy career in the pharmaceutical sector, starting in-house at Swiss pharmaceuticals giant, Roche, in the capacity of legal affairs manager and compliance officer for...
Regional legal director, regional compliance officer, data protection officer | Laureate International Universities
Formerly with KPMG as an international legal manager for the Latin American region, legal manager at Grupo Rouble and regional legal manager for the agribusiness division of Walmart in the...
Legal and compliance manager for Central America and Caribbean | Kuehne + Nagel
Rodrigo Cavinato Herrera manages the legal department of Swiss-German world leader in the provision of logistics services, Kuehne + Nagel, overseeing the legal and compliance operations for Central America and...
Regional counsel for Central America, Caribbean and Venezuela | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Ronald Ramirez Acuña first joined HPE in 2008 as country counsel for Costa Rica, working his way up to become regional counsel in 2013. Ramirez has changed the perception of...
General counsel Central America and Caribbean and Global Service Center Costa Rica | 3M
Sebastian Wong joined American multinational conglomerate corporation 3M, in February 2011 as general counsel for Central America and the Caribbean, and over the years has assumed additional roles within the...
Director legal | Dos Pinos
Silvia Amador joined Dos Pinos, a large Costa Rican dairy farming group, in 2014 after a 10 year career as an in-house lawyer with KPMG and GBM – an IBM...
Legal manager, Central America and Caribbean | Siemens
Silvia Arce López is an innovative and business-oriented corporate legal counsel with more than 11 years of experience providing high quality services across a broad range of corporate functions. She...
Legal manager for Central America | Unilever
Stephanie Montoya serves as the legal manager for Central America on behalf of British-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever. She is responsible for the six countries of Central America, including Guatemala,...
Head of PAC (Pacific and Caribbean) | Sanofi
Stephanie Salas Simons started her legal career as a litigator, after finishing her Master’s degree in corporate law at the University of Texas. She states that right from the beginning,...
Corporate and legal affairs director | Stein Corp
Susana Vásquez has 15 years of experience in international trade negotiations, inter-institutional coordination for the development and enforcement of public policies, and legislation related to international trade and the pharmaceutical...
Legal senior director Latin America, DHL global forwarding | DHL
Tannia Corriols has worked at German logistics company DHL for the last 14 years, joining the Costa Rican branch in January 2004 as legal manager for Central America, and in...
Legal manager CAM and Dominican Republic | Herbalife
In 2014 Tatiana Zeledón Castro joined Herbalife, after receiving what she describes as the ‘best offer of my life’, giving her the possibility to work as legal counsel for a...
Executive director, legal Latin America | Dell
A legal executive with more than 20 years of experience overseeing legal processes and functions in diverse and multicultural environments, Tony Roldan has established himself as one of the most...
Legal director Central America and Panama | Uber
Valentina Moreno Aristeguieta joined Uber as the legal director for Central America and Panama when the role was first created in the region. ‘It implied a big change for the...
Senior counsel – Latin America developing markets | Procter & Gamble
Vanessa Vargas Credidío’s in-house career started early, working for Chanel as legal counsel for Latin America in 2003, where she had worked as an intern from 2000 to 2002. In...
Regional corporate legal counsel for Central America | Walmart Central America
Victor Murillo is a high performing lawyer with more than 15 years of academic formation and professional experience in law, international relations and business, making a strong combination to work...
Antipiracy director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean | Fox Networks Group Latin America
Virginia Servent Palmieri started her career as a litigating lawyer, and in 2001 she started an IP department at a full practice law firm named Asensio, Andrade & Asociados. She...
Legal counsel and compliance officer | Samsung
Vivianne Vera joined Samsung in September 2016 after serving as a senior in-house lawyer in other consumer products companies such as Asedif, the Edificadora Centroamericana Rapiparedes construction company, and as...
Legal director | Globalvia Ruta 27
Walter Contreras, legal director for Globalvia´s Costa Rican Infrastructure project, Ruta 27, has had a focus on advising multinational companies throughout his career, with expertise in tax matters, implementation of...
Regulatory and competition law legal advisor | Empresa de Servicios Públicos de Heredia (ESPH)
In June 2014, William Villalobos Herrera assumed his current position at public company ESPH, operating in highly sensitive sectors, each with very different regulations in the sectors of energy, drinking...
Legal counsel Central America | JCDecaux
Yadira Isabel Moreno Cedeño is a senior corporate lawyer with extensive management experience in multinational companies within in-house legal departments as well as in private practice. Based in Panama, Moreno...
Vice president and general counsel Central America and Caribbean, FTZ-Border and Zacapa | Diageo
Zamira Zapata Valdés joined the world’s leading premium drinks company, Diageo, in November 2011 as legal counsel and through her ambitious nature and willingness to self-improve was promoted to vice...
The Central American countries have continued their economic evolution in the last few years, becoming more stable and open, with better integrated markets and improved conditions for business, investment and trade. Vigorous growth in the US, the region’s largest trading partner, continues to support economic development in the area and although regional inflation has been increasing due to higher international oil prices, many of the countries in Central America have enjoyed a fast-paced growth and the social and economic benefits it brings.
The legal landscape has also seen major improvements, with many in-house lawyers becoming more sophisticated and specialised in the way they practice the law. As the scope of corporate counsel duties has also developed beyond legal matters, in-house lawyers have been required to increasingly factor in the assessment of business risk and governmental relations which requires a deeper understanding of and further integration in their respective organisations.
In this year’s GC Powerlist: Central America we are pleased to highlight some of the country’s leading in-house lawyers. To compile this list, we canvassed opinions from both law firm partners and in-house counsel in the country. We identified the most impressive counsel who have utilised their legal knowledge strategically alongside business insight to make a positive impact towards their organisation’s success.
Celebrate! We want to take this opportunity to congratulate you and your teams – the most influential in-house lawyers in business. We celebrate your outstanding work and fierce commitment to advancing the legal profession and we also want to honour your achievements. It is a pleasure for Arias to be able to sponsor this initiative that recognizes an outstanding group of people.
Greater good. We want to recognize you and your teams because with your hard work you create welfare for your stakeholders, contribute to achieving better countries and support the development of the region. We know that this is not an easy task and that the growth we all seek will only be achieved with innovation, experience, passion and cooperation. The people on this list reflect the greatness that comes from people working together for a greater good, we admire you all and hope we can continue working with you for years to come.
The GC Powerlist and Arias, Across Borders. Arias and The Legal 500 GC Powerlist members have had a long relationship. As the first Central American law firm with presence in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, Arias has been adding value to clients with a regional operation since 1998. Arias has grown and excelled just like your companies in the region, our success goes hand in hand; we thank you for your trust.
We are your strategic partners. We relate and feel close to the vision and aspirations of your companies and your teams. We also relate with your teams because we know how hard you work every day, as we are usually your companions in the journey, for seeking better and more efficient and innovative solutions for your legal matters, but also giving you advice every step of the road.
Congratulations! We have said this many times but cannot miss this opportunity to convey it again: we feel privileged to work with you, and we hope that you continue to exceed in your work and life, and that we continue this path of growth as partners.
For the third consecutive year, Legal 500 partnered with Red Legal Iberoamericana to celebrate the very best in-house counsel from across Europe who dedicate their efforts to the vibrant region of Latin America. In fact, these lawyers possess a unique set of skills that enables them to navigate the challenges and diversity of Latin America in an agile and well-versed manner.
The event took place at the Hotel Wellington in the elegant city of Madrid, Spain, on 7th November 2024. Attendees were welcomed by Sara Maggi, senior editor — research and content at Legal 500, who congratulated all the powerlisters for their contributions to business across Latin America and emphasised the importance of recognising such exceptional lawyers.
Julio Veloso, partner at Broseta Abogados, then took the stage. After offering his congratulations, he invited Alejandro Sainz, senior partner at Sainz Abogados, to join him on stage. They reiterated their pride in sponsoring this research and publication, which recognises unmatched talent.
Santiago González Pérez, vice president and senior employment counsel for EMEA at American Express, shared an in-house perspective on the challenges of working in-house and managing client expectations while operating in a business environment. He also highlighted the importance of being recognised by such prestigious publications.
The evening continued with a cocktail reception featuring drinks and canapés, alongside networking opportunities between talented peers. The event was a great success, and we look forward to next year, as we continue to recognise the efforts of Latin American specialists based across Europe.