Corporate legal counsel | Holcim El Salvador
Bernice Carias
Corporate legal counsel | Holcim El Salvador
Of Salvadoran Nationality, Bernice is a Lawyer with more than 22 years of working experience, her practices were initially focused on Administrative Law, Human Rights, Banking, Litigation, and Labor law.
She later specialised in Private and Corporate, civil and commercial law, advising national and international companies with a presence in the Central American Region, in different types of businesses such as Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Real Estate, and Construction, among others. Assisting them all in their daily legal needs as well as providing advice by leading mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures transactions and even participating as a negotiator in such transactions.
She has also advised different companies regarding their Corporate Structures Reorganisation, Corporate Good Governance, as well as some regulatory and restructuring issues, assisting them on their Growth Projects and processes.
Bernice has been the General Counsel of Holcim El Salvador for 13 years now and she has been a Business Partner and Compliance Enabler to the company’s day-to-day operations and actively participates in advising on Growth Projects and strategic investments of Holcim.