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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 company that provides health care services and medical devices for renal diseases. Although she has only held this position since June 2018, she has given a number of trainings in contract management for the commercial department, so that the legal department can align using good practices that she has previously implemented before, encouraging proper follow up of the operations. ‘At the end of the day, the company will have not an in-house senior legal manager, the company has a business partner’, adds Valdes. She has taken part in the purchase of the assets owned by Gas de France in Costa Rica and in Panama by Celsia-Argos Group. She has also provided support in a new business model through distribution and agency representation scheme pursuant to Dominican Republic and Costa Rica regulations. Prior to this role she served as legal manager, in charge of the legal office in Panama for Tetra Pak, managing international legislation in more than 20 countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Before this role she served as a legal chief for regulatory matters for Panama and Central America in GDF Suez as well as the corporate secretary of the board of directors of one of the companies of this group in Panama. She also served as senior legal counsel at AES Panama, where she provided legal support for power plants regarding labour law, commercial law and mainly energy regulations.