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US headquartered AES Corporation is a Fortune 200 company that generates and distributes electrical power, and supporting its AES Dominicana subsidiary is a high quality legal team led by general counsel Giselle Marie Leger. Framing the overall objectives of the legal team, Leger claims that it ‘supports every area of the company, so our objectives are aligned with the business. Communication between the areas is vital. We often focus on the day-to-day activities but always keeping the bigger picture in mind’. Several transactions in the recent past prove the team’s ability, including the issuance of bonds in local and international markets, the support of a power generation combined cycle project, agreements with power distribution companies and the assistance with sales in local and wider Caribbean markets. The structure of the team has recently changed, Leger speaking of the improvement ‘in ability and approach of how we envision the business and working as a global team along with other areas of the company, [which makes us] complete and consolidated’. Speaking on the team’s culture, Leger states that the mission of her and the lawyers at the company is to ‘create legal and ethical working relationships both internally and with stakeholders’. The legal team at AES Dominicana is full of talent, and cited in particular for their contributions include contracts manager Carolina Silié, who is a ‘distinguished lawyer with years of practical experience’ and drafts, manages and executes all contracts between AES and its third party business partners. Corporate legal support is led by Yudit Nuñez, whilst a regulation legal manager, Alan Jimenez, heads the litigation and regulatory branches ensuring that the company complies with all regulations and laws. They are described as two ‘brilliant result-oriented lawyers who fare and value the collective interests of our enterprise in every legal strategy employed’. Compliance officer Paola Guerrero, does an ‘amazing job at guarding the culture, legal commitments and ethical integrity of AES Dominicana’ through policy enforcement, training, program planning and development. Mention is also given to legal assistants Daniel Perez and Brenda Rivas, who assist the legal team in its everyday operations, in addition to taking charge of executing delegated tasks with quality and perfection.