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Head of legal | Malaysia Airlines
Head of legal | Difare
Jefe legal corporativo | Grupo Pichincha
Legal manager | Liberty Seguros Ecuador
Director jurídico | Grupo Empresarial Espinoza - GES
Legal counsel GM Ecuador legal department | Fresenius Medical Care
Legal director | Cobiscorp
Legal and corporate affairs director | DP World
Corporate lawyer | Coheco
Legal and government affairs manager | Productos Avon Ecuador
Banco Falabella | Legal and compliance manager
Vice president, corporate affairs and sustainability | WOM Chile
National Corporate Manager Legal Advice | Alianza Compania de Seguros y Reaseguros
Sub gerente legal y de cumplimiento | Brinks Bolivia
Senior contact counsel | McKinsey
Associate general counsel | McKinsey & Company
General counsel and head of compliance | Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer
Justiziarin/ General Counsel | Hessischer Rundfunk
General counsel, head of legal, chief compliance officer and proxy holder | Mainova
Legal director mobility | mobile.de - Adevinta
Legal director ACAC (Central America, Andean Region and The Caribbean) | Uber
Legal director and corporate affairs | Enfragen
Senior associate counsel Caribbean and Central America | Visa
General counsel | Citi Costa Rica
Cristina joined Citi back in July 2001, currently she is the General Counsel in Costa Rica with oversight for legal affairs and corporate governance matters for the financial group as...
Legal Manager | LATAM privacy and tech compliance champion | Kimberly-Clark
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary | TechnipFMC
General counsel | SkyFi
SVP, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Corporate Secretary | Select Water Solutions
Assistant General counsel II | DT Midstream
Senior legal counsel | Ramp Network
Vice president legal - Canada and Latin America | Medtronic
Chief legal officer | OCP Tech
VP & General Counsel, LatAm | American Tower
Senior legal counsel | Spotify
SVP - Head of legal Latin America | Warner Bros. Discovery
Chief Legal officer | Ontop
General counsel | Zitec
Head of legal operations | Viarom Construct
Legal director | Transgaz
Legal director | Transelectrica
Legal director | Tenaris Romania
Head of legal | Premier Energy Romania
Head of legal and corporate affairs, Romania | PPC
Head of legal and business affairs | PORR Romania
Head of legal, East Balkans | PepsiCo
Head of legal, pole agricole, Romania, Turkey, Croatia and Hungary | IPSO Agricultură
Head of legal | Intesa Sanpaolo
Head of legal | Interbrands Orbico Romania
Assistant general counsel, legal compliance, EMEA | Genpact
Legal and compliance manager | Forvia Hella
Head of legal | Grampet
Group general counsel | E-INFRA
Head of legal and compliance SEE Area | British American Tobacco
Legal director | BRD - Groupe Societe Generale
Legal manager | AviProd Grup
Head of legal department | Agrana Romania
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | ADM
Group general counsel and chief legal officer | NWP Property
General counsel | Malaysia Aviation Group
Chief legal officer | AirAsia Aviation Group
Assistant general counsel | Vyaire Medical
Chief legal officer | Verisure
General counsel, EMEA and LATAM | Spencer Stuart
Chief legal officer, Spain and LATAM | SAUR
General counsel and company secretary, Europe and LATAM | Sanitas
Legal counsel | OHLA Group
Legal director | Nordex Group
General counsel, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa | Mundipharma
Legal director, Americas | Heineken
Legal director, Iberia, LATAM and Africa | Cegid
Fractional General Counsel | Magenta Investments
General Counsel Middle East & India | Air Products
General counsel | Lightspeed India Partners
Head - legal and compliance | Daimler India
General counsel | BrightNight
Company secretary and chief legal officer | Tata Steel
Consultant general counsel | MPL
Senior vice president legal and group general counsel | Wockhardt Group
Managing director- legal | Essar Power
Legal counsel | Medtronic
Legal associate | ICON
Senior vice president | Citibanamex
Chief legal and compliance officer | Roche Hellas
Chief legal and regulatory director | Nova Telecommunications & Media
Group legal director | Netcompany-Intrasoft
Group legal director | Kaizen Gaming
Legal affairs director | ION
Chief legal counsel | Hellenic Financial Stability Fund
General counsel | Gastrade
Senior legal counsel | Exness
Head of legal and compliance, Greece | Deutsche Bank
General counsel and chief compliance officer | Delta Foods
Head of legal and corporate governance | Aegean Baltic Bank
Gerente de legales y de seguros | Teyma Uruguay
Legal director | Porto Seguro
Legal manager | Pilay Uruguay Administradora de Fondos de Inversión
In-house lawyer | Montes del Plata
Gerenta de asuntos legales y secretaria general | MAPFRE Uruguay
Deputy general counsel | Corporación América Airports
Legal director and insitutional relations | Corporación América
In-house lawyer | Binance
Head of legal and compliance | Banque Heritage
Head of legal | AstroPay
Associate general counsel, Latam | Uber
Vicepresidente legal | MetLife México
General counsel Mexico | Compass Group Mexico
General counsel | Citibanamex
Associate general counsel | Celanese
Chief legal and compliance officer | Catena Activos Alternativos
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General Counsel | Capital Indigo
Director jurídico negocios | Banco del Bajío
Segretario Generale | Telespazio
General counsel, head of legal and compliance | Schindler
Head of legal | PLT Energia
Head of legal shared services Italy | Kering
General Counsel | IDB Holding
General counsel | Generali Italia
Cristina Rustignoli graduated in law with honours at the University of Trieste and passed the Italian Bar exam. In her professional career she has gained extensive and consolidated experience in...
Group General Counsel | Epta
Head of legal and secretariat | DBS Bank
Senior director, APAC legal | Viavi Solutions (Greater China)
General counsel | Arajet
Legal director | Tesorería de la Seguridad Social (TSS)
Director – legal and corporate affairs | Grupo Carol
Legal manager | Banco Múltiple Promerica de la República Dominicana
Legal manager | Valorem
Legal manager | Rappi
Coporate counsel - legal, compliance and sustainability | Organización Espinosa
Gerente de estrategia y asesoría legal | Ocensa - Oleoducto Central
Legal and corporate governance vice president | Grupo Colpatria
Head of legal department | Haleon
Senior legal manager for Colombia | GlaxoSmithKline Colombia
Legal manager | Colombina
Gerente legal | Coca-Cola FEMSA
Directora Jurídica de Innovación | Banco Davivienda
Gerente legal | Alquería
Legal director Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela | Abbott Laboratories
Senior counsel Bolivia and Argentina | Phoenix Tower International
Asesor legal comercial y soporte concesionarios | Imcruz Comercial - Inchcape
Legal advisor | Fortaleza Sociedad Administradora de Fondos de Inversion
General counsel | FONPLATA Banco de Desenvolvimento
Subgerente legal y de cumplimiento | Brinks Bolivia
National corporate manager of legal advice | Alianza Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros
Head of legal | Sociedad Médica Lobos Tallard
General counsel | Porsche Chile
Legal and compliance manager | Melón
Vice president, associate general counsel, head of Latin America | Everest Insurance Chile
Legal and compliance director | Banco Falabella
Compliance manager and legal manager in charge of consumer health | Bayer
Corporate Counsel | Apollo Group
Head of legal and compliance | I&M Bank Uganda
Head of legal, tax and company secretary | Centum Investment
Chief legal officer, company secretary | dfcu Bank
| International Container Terminal Services
Legal counsel | Logoplaste
General counsel, Portugal | Repsol
Head of legal | Banco CTT
Legal counsel SEE | IMCD South East Europe
Chief legal officer | DO & CO Restaurants & Catering
Senior director and chief counsel, Brazil and Latin America | Zoetis
Legal general, labour matters | Whirlpool Corporation
Legal director | Ultragaz
Head of legal, Brazil | Siemens Healthcare
Executive legal director and organizational culture PMO | Minerva Foods
Legal director, head of legal commerce Brasil (marketplace and shipping) | Mercado Livre
Legal director | JTI Brasil
Executive general counsel, Latin America | General Electric Aerospace
Legal director | CTG Brasil
Senior legal manager | American Tower Company
Chief legal, ethics and compliance officer | Ambev
Legal counsel | PepsiCo Türkiye
Chief legal officer | GE Healthcare
Compliance lawyer | SMI | SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS & INNOVATION
Legal counsel South LAC | Diageo
Gerente legal | Howden Perú
Legal manager | CBC Peruana
Director legal | WS Audiology
Vice president legal | Tryg
General counsel | Topdanmark
General counsel | Øresundsbro Konsortiet
Group general counsel | e-Boks
Group chief legal and compliance officer and general counsel | Verisure
Vice president, chief counsel intellectual property and EMEA regional general counsel | TE Connectivity
Chief corporate affairs officer and general counsel, company secretary | Salt Mobile
Legal director | Restaurant brands international
General counsel Switzerland | McDonald's Suisse Restaurants
Gerente abogado en inversiones | SURA Asset Management
Chief compliance and sustainability officer | IENTC Telecom
General counsel Mexico | Compass Group México
General counsel | Capital Indigo
Chief legal and compliance officer / director, legal and compliance | Azenta Life Sciences / B Medical Systems
Executive - governance, legal, compliance and sustainability | Alexforbes
Legal director Central America, Panama and The Caribbean and Andean Region (ACAC) | Uber
Legal and compliance manager for Central American and the Carribean | Kuehne + Nagel
Vice president legal department and general secretary | Banistmo
General counsel | Citi
Senior associate counsel Caribbean and Central America | Visa
Legal and data privacy manager CAN | Kimberly-Clark
Senior legal counsel | Ramp Network
Vice President legal - latin america and canada | Medtronic
Vice president amd general counsel, LatAm | American Tower
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Vice president legal affairs | onTop
General counsel | Lightspeed India Partners
General counsel | Greenko Group
Head of legal, managing counsel, downstream India and Oman | Shell
Senior vice president legal and group general counsel | Wockhardt
Legal, HR, transformation and governance officer | Telekom Romania Mobile
Deputy group legal counsel | Photon Energy Romania
Florina Mariana Homeghiu is the deputy group legal counsel and manages the legal affairs of Photon Energy Group in Romania. She has over 15 years of experience and is a...
Head of legal operations | Viarom Construct
Manager of legal department | OMNIASIG Vienna Insurance Group
Legal director | Transgaz
Cristina Iancu is currently holding the position of legal director within the Romanian National Gas Transmission Company Transgaz. Born in 1985, she graduated with a BA in Law at...
Legal director | Tenaris Romania
Arina Dobrescu is the legal director of Tenaris Romania. Arina has over 12 years of experience as a general counsel and ten years as a lawyer with several domestic and...
Head of legal | Interbrands Orbico Romania
Alina has more than 15 years of professional experience as in-house legal counsel, she is a well appraised legal professional with extensive expertise in commercial business law, M&A, competition law...
Head of legal | Fepra
Clementina Canel has been director of legal and compliance at Fepra since 2021. She has 17 years of experience in the legal field, in specific areas like environment, business law,...
Head of legal and compliance SEE Area | British American Tobacco
Legal manager East Balkans | PepsiCo
Head of legal and corporate affairs Romania | Enel Romania
Alina Dumitrascu is a passionate energy lawyer, with over 20 years of experience and has taken on several leadership positions, including senior roles in public, private and civic sectors in...
South-East subregion legal counsel | DS Smith
Cristina started her career as a litigation lawyer immediately after graduation in a well reputed Romanian law firm. After several years as a litigator, Cristina made a bold move as...
Central Eastern Europe general secretary director | Danone
Legal director | Transelectrica
Group general counsel | E - Infra
Team size: 12 Adina is currently acting as group general counsel for the reputable Romanian infrastructure group of companies, E-Infra Group, as well as a board member of Netcity Telecom (an...
Head of legal department | Agrana Romania
Chief compliance officer and general counsel | PRICH Biotech
Assistant general counsel | Vyaire Medical
Chief legal officer | Verisure
Legal counsel, concessions division | OHLA Group
Legal director | Nordex Group
Legal director, Americas | Heineken
Legal director | Garcia Carrion
Regional counsel and compliance, Iberia | Beckman Coulter
Legal counsel | Sydney Metro
Employee relations generalist | H&M HENNES & MAURITZ
Senior counsel | Airbnb
Associate general counsel | Celanese
Legal director Mexico and CACR | Abbott Laboratories
General counsel | OQ
Focus on: My career Abdulwahhab is currently the group general counsel of OQ, a global integrated energy company based and owned in Oman, managing a legal function consisting of approximately...
General counsel | Magenta Investments
Head of legal and compliance Middle East and Africa | Bridgestone Middle East and Africa
General counsel - Middle East, Egypt and Turkey | Air Products
| The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas)
| China Resources Land
| China Resources Capital Management
| China Overseas Land and Investments
| China Orient Asset Management (International) Holdings
| China Merchants Securities International
| China International Capital Corporation
| China Gas Holdings
| China CITIC Bank International
| Bank of China (Hong Kong)
Legal manager | Petrolia Ecuador
Vice president of corporate and legal affairs | Nestlé Ecuador
Legal manager | Liberty Seguros
General counsel and president of the compliance unit | Grupo Santillana
Legal director | Grupo Empresarial Espinoza
Legal director | Grupo Cobis | Topaz
Senior legal counsel | Galicia Seguros
Legal and corporate affairs director | DP World
Corporate lawyer | COHECO
| VinaCapital
| Standard Chartered Bank
| Hong Leong Financial Group
| Pavilion Energy Legal, Compliance & Sustainability Division
General counsel Australia and New Zealand and South East Europe | Unilever
Senior legal counsel | SAP Hellas Single Member
Senior legal manager | Oracle
Chief legal and regulatory director | NOVA
Group legal director | Netcompany-Intrasoft
Senior legal counsel | Lightsource bp
Group legal director | Kaizen Gaming
Chief legal counsel | Hellenic Financial Stability Fund
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General counsel | Dodoni Ice Cream
Chief legal and compliance officer | Dixons South East Europe
Director, head of legal and compliance Greece | Deutsche Bank
General counsel and chief compliance officer | DELTA FOODS
Chief legal officer | Copelouzos Group
Legal and insurance manager | Teyma Uruguay
Legal director | Porto Seguro
Head of legal department | Pilay Uruguay Administradora de Fondos de Inversión
Ginamaría Miglino serves as the head of legal at Pilay Uruguay Administradora de Fondos de Inversión, a financial trust company dedicated to the administration of financial trusts for real estate...
Legal director | Montes del Plata
Legal affairs manager and general secretary | MAPFRE Uruguay
Deputy general counsel | Corporación América Airports
Legal manager and institutional relations at Corporación América Uruguay | Corporación América
Legal manager and compliance officer of Uruguayan operation | CBC INTL.
Legal | Binance
Head of legal and compliance | Banque Heritage (Uruguay)
Head of legal | AstroPay
General counsel, head of legal and compliance | Schindler
Head of legal shared services Italy | Kering
General counsel | Generali Italia
In her professional career, Cristina Rustignoli has gained extensive and consolidated experience in the banking, financial and insurance sectors. In 2000 she joined the Generali Group as legal manager of...
Regional general counsel EMEA RA | ABB
Associate general counsel | Uber
Legal vice president | Metlife México
General counsel Mexico | Compass Group Mexico
General counsel | Capital Indigo
Director jurídico de negocios | Banco del Bajío
Legal sub-director | Ministerio de Turismo de la República Dominicana
Ms. Batista has fourteen years of experience practicing law, focusing her practice on providing advice in the areas of real estate, contracts, corporate and commercial law, civil law, banking and...
Legal and compliance country chief officer | JMMB
Director of legal and corporate affairs | Grupo Carol
Raul Alejandro Peña Medina has a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), complemented by a master’s degree in legal practice from the same university, as...
Legal director | Diesco Industries
Vice president of legal, compliance, institutional relations, corporate affairs and human resources | Corporación Minera Dominicana (CORMIDOM)
Regional in-house legal counsel greater Caribbean Region | Colgate-Palmolive
Legal manager | CARDNET - Consorcio de Tarjetas Dominicanas
General legal director | Banreservas
Legal manager | Banco Promerica de la República Dominicana
Corporate legal manager | AERODOM
Legal manager | Rappi
Senior counsel | Primax Colombia
Coporate general counsel | Organización Espinosa
Global commercial and contract manager - SCM | Hitachi Energy Colombia
Head of legal department | Haleon
Legal manager | Grupo Empresarial Colombina
Senior legal manager for Colombia | GlaxoSmithKline Colombia
Legal director, fintech and innovation | Banco Davivienda
General counsel | Addi
Legal director Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela | Abbott Laboratories
Vice president, corporate affairs and sustainability | WOM Chile
Head of legal | SmartFit & O2
General counsel | Porsche Chile
Legal affairs and compliance manager | Melón Cement
Vice president legal and compliance head of Latin America | Everest
Legal and compliance manager | Banco Falabella
National corporate manager of legal advice | Alianza Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros
Legal advisor | Fortaleza Sociedad Administradora de Fondos de Inversion
Subgerente legal y de cumplimiento | Brinks Bolivia
Kelly R. Torrico Mèrida, deputy legal and compliance manager at Brinks Bolivia, has 16 years of experience in the practice of law and in providing legal advice to private sector...
Asesor legal soporte divisional | Imcruz - Inchcape Américas
General counsel and compliance officer Perú | Hochschild Mining
Corporate vice president and general counsel | Grupo Intercorp
Legal manager | CBC Peruana
General counsel | Touch 'n Go
Lead, legal | Touch ‘n Go
Legal affairs director | Pfizer Inc.
Vice president and head of legal | Permodalan Nasional (PNB)
General counsel | Malaysia Airlines
Senior manager, legal and property management | Eco World
Chief legal officer | Capital A (AirAsia)
General counsel, Philippines and beauty and well-being, Southeast Asia | Unilever Philippines
Associate general counsel | San Miguel Holdings Corp
Chief legal consultant | Megaworld Corporation
Head of legal | ib vogt Philippines
Of counsel | E&L Faster Food Imports
General counsel | Comworks
Senior legal counsel - corporate law and special projects | Ayala Corporation
Legal counsel | Samsung Portugal
Legal officer | Citibank Portugal
Chief legal officer, Portugal | Repsol
Legal and compliance director | Merck Sharp & Dohme
Head of legal and compliance | Empark
Legal advisor | BP Portugal
Head of legal | Banco CTT
General counsel | 3M Thailand
Legal specialist | Opn
| BEC (Bankernes EDB Central)
Chief counsel for Latin America | Zoetis
Legal general, labour matters | Whirlpool Corporation
Legal director | Ultragaz
Legal executive manager | Suzano
Head of legal | SBT - Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão
Power legal director | Raízen
Executive legal director and organizational culture PMO | Minerva Foods
Legal director | Mercado Livre
Legal manager | Kinross Brasil Mineração
Executive general counsel | General Electric Brazil
Legal manager | American Tower Company
Chief legal, ethics and compliance officer | Ambev
Group chief legal and compliance officer and general counsel | Verisure
Vice president, chief counsel intellectual property and EMEA region general counsel | TE Connectivity
General counsel and chief of corporate affairs | Salt Mobile
Deputy general counsel governance, and deputy corporate secretary | Solvay
Vice president, general counsel, Europe and Africa | Siemens Energy
Simone Davina is a business orientated general counsel at Siemens Energy with international experience for Europe and Africa (without Germany), overseeing the various sub-regions within Europe and Africa. She is...
Chief legal counsel | GE Healthcare Türkiye
Vice president, associate General Counsel | Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Legal director Central America, Panama and The Caribbean and Andean Region (ACAC) | Uber
Legal vice-president and corporate secretary | Banistmo
Senior associate counsel Caribbean and Central America | Visa
Julieta graduated from the Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua in 2004 with a degree in Law and Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, and with an LLM, with emphasis in...
Legal director | Banco Crèdit Andorrà (Panamá)
General counsel | Citi
Legal and corporate affairs Central America and Caribbean | Kimberly-Clark
Director of compliance and ESG | Telenor
Group general counsel | WiseTech Global
Spotlight on Katrina Johnson Katrina is the group general counsel of WiseTech Global. WiseTech is a leading developer and provider of software solutions to the global logistics execution industry. Its...
General counsel, company secretary and executive for people and culture | Plenti Group
Head of legal, international markets | Teva Pharmaceuticals
Rinat Shiran-Rasky is the head of legal, international markets at Teva Pharmaceuticals, leading a diverse team of more than thirty in-house lawyers and developing them to become legal guardians, strategic...
Deputy general counsel | Verint Systems
Director, associate general counsel | Tower Semiconductor
Chief counsel rare disease | Pfizer
General counsel - vice president legal and compliance | Sunfire
Dr. Valesca Molinari is general counsel — vice president of legal and compliance — at the hydrogen company Sunfire, a growth company on its way to becoming a major industrial...
Associate general counsel | McKinsey & Company
After nine years of experience in German and US law firms, Nina joined McKinsey on the doorstep of the first lockdown in March 2020. In the newly created position as...
General counsel and head of compliance | Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer
Senior legal counsel enterprise | Vodafone
General counsel and vice president group corporate legal | Ceconomy
General counsel, head of legal and chief compliance officer | Mainova
Head of legal, Germany | mobile.de - Adevinta
Legal counsel | Klar
Legal director | PepsiCo
Employee relations generalist | H&M
Associate general counsel Mexico - Latin America | Celanese
Legal counsel manager | Henkel Capital
Legal counsel | Medtronic
Legal manager | FINSA
Legal counsel | Philip Morris International
General counsel | Greenko Group
Head of legal India and managing counsel India and Oman | Shell India
Senior vice president legal and group general counsel | Wockhardt
General counsel | Magenta Investments
Group general counsel | Zakher Marine International
General counsel - Middle East | Air Products
Legal director Spain and Latam | Saur
Board secretary and head of legal | J. García Carión
Legal counsel | Kronos
Group legal director | Netcompany – Intrasoft
Group legal director | Kaizen Gaming
Senior legal and compliance counsel | SAP Hellas
head of legal and compliance greece | Deustche Bank
Chief legal and compliance officer | Dixons South East Europe
Head of legal | Hellenic Financial Stability Fund
In-house legal counsel | Cablenet Communication Systems
General counsel | Dodoni Ice-Cream
General counsel for East Europe | Unilever
Head of legal administration | O1 Advisory
Vice president and head of legal | MetLife
Director jurídico de negocios | Banco del Bajío
General counsel asset management | Credit Suisse
Deputy legal director | Nissan Mexico
General counsel and secretary of the board | Ferroglobe
Legal coordinator | BMW
Chief legal counsel for Mexico and capital markets Latin America | JLL México
Head of legal and compliance | Banque Heritage
General counsel and secretary general | Mapfre Uruguay
Legal and insurance manager | Teyma
Legal director | Porto Seguros
Head of legal department | Pilay Uruguay Administradora de Fondos de Inversión
Legal manager and compliance officer of Uruguayan operation | CBC INTL
Legal director and insitutional relations | Corporación América
Legal director | Montes del Plata
Deputy general counsel | Corporación América
Regional legal director | AbbVie
SOCO legal director | PepsiCo de Argentina
Senior manager - corporate development | Globant
Head of legal | IOV Labs
Senior counsel Southern Latin America | Emerson Argentina
Head of legal, compliance and ethics officer | EDF Renewables Chile
Vice president associate general counsel head of legal Latin America | Everest Compañía de Seguros Generales Chile
Lawyer, legal and compliance manager | Melón
General counsel Chile and compliance officer Latam | ALSTOM
Chief legal officer | Laureate Perú
Head of legal | Graña y Montero
Legal and regulatory compliance general counsel | Compañía Operadora de Gas - COGA
Legal manager | CBC Peruana
General secretary | EPM
Senior counsel | Primax Colombia
General counsel | Addi
Director of legal, logistics and business | Biomax Biocombustibles
Vice president legal and corporate affairs | Sanford management
Senior legal manager | GSK
Head of legal | Hitachi Energy Colombia
Legal director, fintech and innovation | Banco Davivienda
Legal manager, corporate secretary | Distribuidora Nissan (Grupo Vardí)
Senior legal manager corporate and commercial banking | Scotiabank
Directora legal | Grupo Diesco
Enterprise Risk Management Director | Scotiabank
General Legal Director | Banreservas
Legal and compliance country chief officer | JMMB RD
Country head legal | Implenia
Legal coordinator CEE and Italy | REWE Group
Head of legal Austria | BNP Paribas
Chief legal officer | parques reunidos
Legal and compliance director | Merck, Sharpe and Dome
Head of legal | Banco CTT
General counsel and secretary of the board | Ferroglobe
Legal director ACAC (Central America, Panama and The Caribbean and Andean region) | Uber
Legal and compliance manager | Kuehne + Nagel
Legal vice-president and corporate secretary | Banistmo
general counsel | Citibank
Legal and corporate manager North Latin America operations | Kimberly-Clark
Senior director, legal | Gilead Sciences
General Counsel, Company Secretary and Executive for People & Culture | Plenti
Head of legal | Iliad Italia
Head of legal shared services Italy | Kering
General counsel, head of legal and compliance | Schindler Italy
Legal Counsel | Ørsted A/S
General counsel | Topdanmark
Head of Central Eastern Europe Legal | European Energy
Chief Legal Consultant | PKA
Head of Transaction andTax | P+, Pensionskassen for Akademikere
Legal Counsel | COWI A/S
General Counsel | Tryg
Group General Counsel | E-boks
Head of legal service | Coop
Vice president, legal | MasterCard
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Chief legal officer and corporate secretary | QuadReal Property Group
General counsel United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands | Siemens Energy
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Executive vice president and general counsel | Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Oshkosh
Deputy general counsel and ethics officer Turkey | ENGIE
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Partner | Allen & Overy LLP
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| Piramal Capital & Housing Finance
| L&T Financial Services
| Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS)
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| IIFL Finance
| HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation)
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| Apac Financial Services
Legal affairs director pharmaceuticals, Russia and CIS | Johnson & Johnson
General counsel Russia, Ukraine and Belarus | Unilever
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Director, legal counsel, legal and licensing operations | SAS Institute
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Head of legal, Moscow | VTB Capital
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Vice president, legal | Evraz
General counsel | Atomenergomash
General counsel | X5 Retail Group
Legal and tax director | L'Oréal
General counsel | Skyeng
Head of legal | Credit Bank of Moscow
Associate general counsel and head of legal, Uber Asia Pacific | Uber
General counsel and company secretary | Vend
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General counsel | Asurion Australia
| Usiminas
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| China Construction Bank - CCB Brasil
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General counsel | Skanska Property Poland
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Country legal manager | Coca-Cola HBC Romania
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General counsel | LUKOIL Romania
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Head of legal | Enel Distributie Romania
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Regional legal manager | Tenaris Silcotub
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Group general counsel | E-Infra (Electrogrup Infrastructure )
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Group general counsel | Sporveien Oslo
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? The biggest project at Sporveien for the time being is the...
General counsel | TINE
What are the most important transactions and litigations that you have been involved in during the last two years? We assist the top management regularly and are thus involved in...
Head of legal | Zakher Marine International
Formerly a lawyer for the Ukrainian government, at the Defence and Justice Ministries and then a lawyer for the Ukrainian parliament, Irina Kovalchuk originally moved to the Middle East to...
General counsel | UAE Trading Group
Formerly a legal project manager for a UNODC project on human trafficking and a private practice lawyer, Zeina Abillamah joined the UAE Trading Group and moved to the Dubai in...
Corporate legal advisor and compliance manager | Melón
A leading producer and supplier of cement and construction materials in Chile, Melón has a strong reputation in the construction materials industry and divides its operations into the three divisions...
Head of legal | EDF Renewables Chile
EDF Renewables has been active in the Chilean market since 2014, participating in the development and financing stage of utility-scale solar projects in the country. In 2018, the local EDF...
General counsel | Alstom Chile
Having joined Alstom in 2003, general counsel Carolina Carrasco Acuña has accumulated a formidable knowledge of Chilean and Latin American operations at the French global leader in energy and railroad...
General counsel | Vista Equity Partners
When Christina Lema joined Vista Equity Partners in 2012, it was a private equity-focused firm with two product lines, $6bn under management and employing around 50 staff, most of whom...
| Selina (selina.com)
Selina is a new hospitality group that hosts what it describes as “co-stay, co-live, co-work and co-playing spaces” in fascinating locations around the world. The company is on a mission...
| Caterpillar Financial Services
The expert in-house legal team provides legal support to Caterpillar Financial’s regional offices in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil and Chile) and coordinates with local teams within those regional offices. The...
Partner | Allen & Overy
Number of years practice: 19 Principal practice areas: Projects and energy, project finance, M&A Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English, French (proficient), Greek and Spanish (proficient) The ‘client-oriented’ Dorina...
Partner | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Number of years practice: 20 Principal practice areas: Energy finance, infrastructure finance, project finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English, Portuguese and Spanish Carolina Walther-Meade lived and went to...
Partner, co-head Africa practice group | Herbert Smith Freehills
Number of years practice: 22 Principal practice areas: Project finance Languages spoken: French and English What is the geographical focus of your practice in Africa? Pan-African practice with a particular...
| Imagina (Mediapro)
Spain’s largest sports broadcasting and media rights group Imagina – commonly referred to as Mediapro, the name of one of its subsidiaries – provides technical services to the film, television...
| Volkswagen Financial Services
In 2017, Volkswagen Financial Services separated the Volkswagen Bank from the Volkswagen Financial Services organisation. This project was a highly demanding project from a legal and compliance perspective for the...
| Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Portugal
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is a Daimler Group company that has been present in Portugal since 1998, and supports the sales of the global automobile company and its dealership network in...
| CaixaBank - Structured Finance
‘CaixaBank is one of the leading banking entities in Spain. Among all their outstanding legal teams, we highlight the legal department ascribed to the structured finance division led by Gemma...
| Cabot Financial Spain
‘Cabot Financial is one of the six companies that makes up the Cabot Credit Management Group, which is one of the leading European credit management companies recognised for the excellence...
| Banco Finantia
The Banco Finantia in-house legal department supports all of the Bank’s activities and services including business and non-business areas, and is responsible for managing all legal related matters including contract...
| Banco BPI – CIB and Financial
Banco BPI is a major privately owned bank in Portugal owned by Spanish bank CaixaBank. Banco BPI internal legal department supports all of the Bank’s activities and is led by...
Vice-president, corporate secretary and public law group lead | Halliburton
As one of seventeen board members for the Houston-based Association of Women in Energy, which is paving the way for women in the sector through peer-to-peer learning, Christina Ibrahim is...
| Volkswagen DoğuŞ Finans
As a shareholding of Volkswagen Financial Services and Doğuş group companies in Turkey, Volkswagen Doğuş Finans (VDF) and its group companies operate in a variety of business areas such as...
| QNB Finansbank
QNB Finansbank is a Turkish bank that was first founded in 1987 in Istanbul by leading Turkish banker Hüsnü Özyeğin. In 2015, the National Bank of Greece (who purchased the...
| Akbank - Project financing and Treasury transactions
The Akbank – project financing and treasury transactions division’s legal department is managed by managing counsel Cem Davutoglu, and is made up of three lawyers and one support staff. Upon...
| Finansbank
Finansbank is the high-performing Turkish bank established by leading Turkish banker Hüsnü Özyeğin in 1987. For a period, it was the Turkish bank with the largest network of foreign branches,...
| Trina Solar (Switzerland)
Faced with a number of challenging factors in the past two years, mainly driven by global trends in the solar industry, the legal team has managed to stay current and...
General counsel | CT Corp Indonesia
A well-respected member of CT Corp’s management team, Zainal Rahman is considered a trusted voice amongst peers in the industry. Zainal Rahman started his professional career as a lease officer...
Senior general manager of legal and corporate secretarial affairs | MISC
Fina Norhizah binti Haji Baharu Zaman serves as senior general manager of the legal corporate secretarial affairs of MISC Berhad, Malaysia’s largest international shipping line. She started her legal career...
| Ilyushin Finance Co
Ilyushin Finance Co is a dedicated leasing and finance subsidiary of the Ilyushin Aviation Complex, a major Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau. It provides a range of financial services...
General counsel | Edison VC
As a lawyer at the venture capital firm Edison VC, Ekaterina has a lot of ground to cover. ‘I’m more of a personal lawyer’ she explains. ‘I work for a...
Head of Legal & Compliance (Russia) | Astellas Pharma Europe B.V.
Irina Savina joined Astellas Pharma in a time of rapid growth and expansion, when the legal function was only starting to develop. Initially, she worked as the sole lawyer at...
Legal Director (Russia & CIS) | Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
‘To me the legal profession is not just work that falls under my current job responsibility, but an opportunity to influence the legal culture as a whole,’ says Anastasia Nadezhdina,...
Head of Legal | Russian Venture Company
The Russian Venture Company is a government fund, dedicated to building a national innovation system in Russia by channelling public incentives to venture capital and financial support to the hi-tech...
Legal Director and CCO for Eurasian Zone | Sanofi S.A.
Tatiana has headed legal and compliance support for world-leading pharmaceutical Sanofi’s Eurasian business since 2010. A globally-educated lawyer, she has worked in house at several other leading international companies and...
Head of Legal | BTC Group JSC
‘I like my profession for its versatile nature, lack of routine and need for continuous improvement’, says Irina Kosmina. ‘The position of head of legal at BTC Group has given...
General Counsel | Sapinda CIS LLC
In July 2014, Elena Kholina became GC at Sapinda – an investment holding focusing on special situation investment opportunities across Asia and EMEA. She led the opening of Sapinda’s Moscow...
Head of Legal | Management Company Tavros LLC
Svetlana Doronina, head of legal at the Russian agro investment holding Tavros, has organised the work of a strong legal unit that is ‘capable of taking preventive measures to minimise...
Legal Affairs Director (Pharmaceuticals, Russia and CIS) | Johnson & Johnson
Irina Chernenko provides legal support to the pharma division at Johnson & Johnson in Russia and CIS, combining her duties as general cCounsel at the company with a seat on...
Head of Legal | Trading House TSVUM OJSC
Maria Breeva sees ‘her ability to negotiate’ as absolutely crucial to her professional victories. As head of legal at the TSVUM Trading House in Moscow, Maria almost always operates in...
Head of Legal | Radius Group
Natalya Blokhina is a brilliant lawyer that has impressed colleagues both in Russia and abroad with her ability to navigate complex real estate deals. Three transactions at Radius Group supported...
| Oficina de Normalización Previsional (ONP)
The Oficina de Normalización Previsional (ONP) is the public state security agency of Peru, having the ultimate responsibility of administering the Peruvian state’s national pension system. Fully engaged in the...
| Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo (COFIDE)
Founded in 1971, COFIDE is Peru’s state-owned development bank that has the aim of creating sustainable development for the benefit of the country’s various economic agents and capital markets. The...
| Compañia Minera Antamina
Compañia Minera Antamina is one of the largest Peruvian producers of copper and zinc concentrates, and one of the ten largest in the world in terms of production volume. Ensuring...
| COES-SINAC
The legal and regulatory management department of COES-SINAC is made up of the following members; head of department Pablo Arturo Okumura Suzuki, legal counsel Renzo Javier Salazar Vallejo and legal...
| APM Terminals Callao
The legal team at APM Terminals Callao has been able to introduce changes in the way customer legal claims are handled in the company, shifting the focus of the business...
| Keskinäinen Eläkevakuutusyhtiö Ilmarinen
Keskinäinen Eläkevakuutusyhtiö Ilmarinen, a Finnish statutory pension company, has in-house lawyers that are considered by internal and external sources to be ‘business partners who act as trusted advisers on a...
Head of legal & external affairs | British American Tobacco
‘What I enjoy most about my role at BAT is that because of the environment in which the company operates, and the way it is structured, it allows the lawyers...
General counsel | Höegh Autoliners AS
Steinar Nyrud has built up the legal department of Höegh from one lawyer in 2005 to a team of six today. ‘The business has expanded and we have had to...
Senior vice president, chief legal officer, head of group function legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors | Ericsson
Described as ‘highly competent’ with ‘excellent leadership skills’ Nina Macpherson has led Ericsson’s global legal affairs division as chief legal officer since January 2011. Macpherson joined Ericsson in 1996 as...
General counsel | Marimekko
Marimekko Corporation is a Finnish textile company that produces clothing, bags, accessories and home décor based on their own unique prints. Tiina Lencioni is general counsel with two legal team...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Volvo Group Trucks Operations
Martina Klaus joined The Volvo Group, Sweden’s multinational manufacturer, in 2005 as part of the Volvo Aero division. In 2010 she moved to Shanghai for a 12 month Asian truck...
General counsel | Outotec
Nina Kiviranta moved in-house in 1996 after four years of working in law firms. For her first corporate role, Kiviranta joined Metsä Board (previously M-real Corporation), a leading European folding...
| China State Construction Engineering Corporation Middle East (CSCEC)
China State Engineering Construction Corporation Middle East (CSCEC), a subsidiary of the third largest construction company in the world, is developing some of the most recognisable infrastructure and mega-projects in...
| Grupo Salinas
The legal team behind Grupo Salinas, a management company for some of the largest multimedia and banking institutions in Mexico, signed a deal through its subsidiary media company Dopamine with...
| Grupo Financiero Mifel
The legal team at Grupo Financiero Mifel is well regarded for steering the legal affairs of this mid-sized Mexican bank which launched in 1994 after the liberalisation of the banking...
| Grupo Financiero Banorte
The in-house legal team at Grupo Financiero Banorte (GFB) has 320 lawyers and staff members and is led by Hector Avila Flores, managing director of legal affairs and secretary of...
| Grupo Salinas
Led by general counsel Francisco Xavier Borrego Hinojosa Linage, the Grupo Salinas legal team supports a group of Mexican companies spanning a wide range of activities covering TV Azteca, Enlace...
| Grupo Financiero Santander México - Legal Global Business
The Mexican subsidiary of global Spanish bank Banco Santander, has been established since 1991. Within the company’s legal department is the Legal Global Business team, led by executive legal director...
| Grupo Financiero Inbursa
Owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, Grupo Financiero Inbursa is a Mexican financial company that has over $1bn in annual revenue. Raúl Zepeda Ruiz, general director of legal and institutional...
| Grupo Financiero Banorte
One of the top four Mexican commercial banks by assets, Grupo Financiero Banorte has over 1,000 branches within the country and a listing on the Mexican Stock Exchange, where it...
Director of legal - business division | Banco del Bajío
Rafael Romo Aguiñaga’s first years in the legal profession were spent in the public sector, having worked as director of the legal municipality of Guanajuato between 1995 and 1997, and...
General counsel | Hoteles City Express
Before starting her in-house career, Dina Moreno worked at law firm Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez between 2000 and 2010. In addition to building expertise in corporate law, joint ventures...
General secretary and general counsel | MAPFRE
Nominated for his work as secretary general and general counsel of one the most important insurance companies in Mexico, MAPFRE, Alfredo Bonifaz Molina also gained a wealth of experience during...
General counsel for the Americas | IC Power
With experience in both private practice and the public sector (notably as director general of legal affairs at the Ministry of the Presidency), Daniel Urbina moved in-house in 2000, occupying...
Head of legal | Molinos Rio de la Plata
‘An excellent in-house lawyer who focuses rapidly on the key issues and is always an aid to her external counsel’, Ana Carina Turco is head of legal at Perez Companc...
Vice president for legal affairs | Sanford Management
Cristina Lloreda became vice president for legal affairs at holding company Sanford Management, where she handles the legal requirements of a portfolio of 15 companies, in May 2013. Having begun...
Director of legal & compliance and vice president for legal affairs | AES Brazil
Ana Carolina de Salles Freire spent over 15 years at leading law firm TozziniFreire, latterly as a partner, before moving in house at AES Brasil, initially as legal director, and...
Legal director | Fresnius Medical Care (Colombia)
‘The role of in-house counsel is not only legal management; it implies the management of administrative and budgeting matters, participation in the company’s strategic planning and leadership of human resources’,...
Legal counsel (LatAm Pacific) | Alstom
Having begun her in house career at family-owned forestry group, Maderas Condor, Carolina Carrasco-Acuña has been counsel at the Chilean subsidiary of French multinational conglomerate ALSTOM for 11 years. Since...
Director of legal & regulatory matters | Empresas Polar
‘Long-time’ director of legal and regulatory matters at Venezuela’s largest privately-owned company, diversified food and drinks group, Empresas Polar, Guillermo Bolinaga has ‘extraordinary legal expertise and absolutely outstanding public relations...
general counsel | Esso Italiana
Holding the position as general counsel of Esso’s Italian subsidiary for almost 20 years, Raimondo Rinaldi takes pride in his legal department being recognised as ‘critical to flawless operations’ in...
general counsel, head of legal and compliance | Schindler Italy
Since being admitted to the Italian Bar in 2007, Giorgio Gravina has held several in-house positions and one position in private practice, and is currently in charge of the legal...
head of legal affairs and compliance | Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC)
In charge of legal and compliance at the Italian Football Federation since September 2015, Sabina Fasciolo is able to rely on over seven years’ experience during her previous role at...
| Pepper Finance Corporation (Ireland)
Pepper Ireland is a leading asset manager and provider of third-party loan and advisory services, part of the wider Pepper Group headquartered in Australia. Pepper currently has over €12bn of...
| Department of Finance
Serving a crucial function in the structure of the Irish state, the Department of Finance (DoF) is responsible for the administration of public finances in the Republic of Ireland, most...
| Dell Financial Services
In 2013 Dell Financial Services (DFS) gained a banking licencse from the Central Bank of Ireland, allowing it to offer services and loans to customers in software and services financing....
Head of Legal Ireland | BNP Paribas Ireland
‘It is all about deal delivery, innovation, lateral thinking’. As the first in-house lawyer to join BNP Parabis Ireland, Davina Saint built a highly regarded seven-lawyer function, supporting Dublin, London,...
Managing counsel, downstream India and legal focal point, downstream Middle East | Shell India
Before joining Shell India, Mrinal Sinha worked at reputable Mumbai law firms Swarup & Co., Kochhar & Co. and DSK Legal between 1994 and 2006. Since then he has been...
General counsel | Wockhardt
After 13 years of working at IDBI Bank, the Indian government-owned financial institution, Debolina Partap joined Wockhardt, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in Mumbai. She joined as head of...
Senioe vice president and head of legal | Adani Group
Currently heading the legal department responsible for M&A, contracting, litigation and arbitration at Indian multinational conglomerate Adani Group, Badrinath Durvasula has a distinguished pedigree in the in-house legal market. His...
Commercial manager -new business | CEPSA
With 25 years of experience as a lawyer, contract specialist and negotiator in the international energy sector, Marina Paradela is a leading expert in the industry. Before joining CEPSA in...
Director of international legal affairs | Grupo San José
Grupo San José’s director of international legal affairs, Ángela López Molina has had an exciting career path. Shortly after her studies in law and business administration she started working in...
Director of legal financial | Telefónica
A leading expert in finance law, Cristina Fernández Gomez has been at the helm of the legal financial department at Telefónica since 2012. She started her career at the top-tier...
Head of retail and commercial banking and custody legal | Santander Group
With more than two decades in-house experience at Santander Group, José de Reina Amarillas has been involved in some of the bank’s most significant transactions. Since joining Santander’s in-house team...
General counsel | Mango
Mango’s general counsel Isabel Calero Llinares prides herself for instilling within the company a culture of prevention and education and corporate responsibility. She has been at the helm of Mango’s...
Head of legal | PVH Holdings (Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein)
Christina Sontheim boasts ‘particular legal, communicative and organisational skills’ and observers agree that she has been instrumental in her pro-active guidance of Tommy Hilfiger Group’s expansion not only in Germany,...
Legal advisor (HR) | Euler Hermes Deutschland
Euler Hermes is a credit insurance company headquartered in Paris and a global industry leader with over 6,000 employees in more than 50 countries; Euler Hermes Deutschland is Germany’s leading...
General counsel | NORMA Group
Ina Berg-Winters had to face one of her biggest challenges upon her arrival at NORMA: setting up a legal department from scratch. ‘Prior to me joining, all legal matters that...
| Nokia - finance legal team
Legal director and head of finance legal Carlos Döring was part of the Alcatel Lucent law department and kept his place post their high-profile takeover by Nokia last year, with...
| BNP Paribas Personal Finance
The legal team of the personal finance subsidiary of French banking giant BNP Paribas received several nominations from private practice sources, and is known in the market for its extensive...
| FxPro Financial Services
Operating as a subsidiary of FxPro Group, leading online broker FxPro Financial Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Cyprus. The company’s in-house legal team has earned significant...
| Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (Financial Superintendence of Colombia)
Providing oversight of financial regulation and market systems across the whole of the Colombian economy, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia is a government agency that employs a large amount of...
| General Motors Financial
General Motors Financial is the financial services arm of the global automobile manufacturer General Motors. GM Financial provides auto finance across the world, with operations in the US, Canada, Europe,...
| Colombina
Colombina is a global food company based in Valle del Cauca with more than 84 years of experience in the manufacture and commercialisation of food products. Currently the company offers...
| Alpina Productos Alimenticios
The Bogotá-headquartered Alpina Productos Alimenticios is the third largest dairy producer in Colombia, with annual revenues of over $700m. Operating across Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the United States, the company...
Chief Legal Officer | Pacific Exploration & Production Corporation
Alvaro Josué Yáñez Alsina was appointed by Pacific Exploration & Production, the Canadian petroleum company, in Colombia to design the unification of existing contractual processes. Upon joining the company Yáñez...
Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity Counsel | Microsoft
With over 10 years of experience in intellectual property and corporate law as both an in-house counsel and private practice lawyer, Lina María Mosquera Gonzalez is in the perfect position...
General counsel | Sanford Management
Cristina Lloreda is the commercially savvy general counsel of holding company Sanford Management, where she handles the legal needs of a 15-company portfolio. Since her 2013 appointment, Lloreda has been...
Legal Manager | Corredores Asociados
As legal manager of one of Colombia’s most influential investment banks and broker-dealer firms and a subsidiary of the top three Colombian bank Davivienda, Carolina Largacha has been heavily involved...
Health Care Compliance Officer (Northern Latin America) | Johnson & Johnson
Lina Maria Cortes has had a highly successful career conducting impressive legal and compliance work both in-house and in private practice. Appointed as health care compliance officer for Johnson &...
Director of Legal, Logistics and Business | Biomax Biocombustibles
Diana Carolina Camargo Sanchez joined Colombian wholesale distributor and retailer of fuels Biomax Biocombustibles (Biomax) in 2010 and has occupied a senior legal position since 2012. Biomax operates a network...
Legal Affairs Manager | GlaxoSmithKline Colombia
An ‘efficient and proactive’ legal professional, Carolina Arciniegas Parga has a reputation for her ability to effectively manage several areas of the law. An expert with 16 years of experience...
Senior director, Asia Pacific legal | Viavi Solutions (Greater China)
A highly experienced legal professional with particular skill in negotiation, risk avoidance and management, Regina Chan has been with her current employer, tech and communications company Viavi Solutions (formerly JDSU),...
Legal manager | Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI)
BCI is a Chilean bank that operates across four business areas: savings and deposits; insurance; asset management; and securities brokerage. Founded by the Yuar family in 1937, BCI has grown...
General counsel Latam Pacific | ALSTOM CHILE
General counsel of Alstom Chile for the last 14 years, Carolina Carrasco provides legal advice to the company’s wide array of complex infrastructure projects in Chile, assisting with the negotiation...
Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs | Banistmo
As vice president of the legal department and corporate secretary of Banistmo, the largest bank in Panama and Central America, Maria Christina Vila de Van Hoorde oversees a highly-rated team...
Legal vice president | Cargill
Since assuming a role in the legal department at Cargill in 2004, Valentina Moreno has continuously assumed additional responsibilities. Last year she was given the responsibility of managing key suppliers...
General counsel | Baxter México, Central America, Caribbean and Venezuela
Having been involved in a plethora of activities from managing the legal department’s annual budget to guiding the career development of its members, Angel Molina was given the role of...
Legal counsel | FPB Bank
Julieta Rodriguez Molina is a lawyer with extensive experience in corporate, commercial, labour and antitrust law, as well as professional recognition in corporate governance. Described by a source as an...
Legal director | Scotiabank
Since 2004, Karina Castillo has developed the legal department at Scotiabank in the Dominican Republic from scratch, and eventually established a function of 12 people to provide services to a...
General counsel and country compliance head | Citibank Costa Rica
Cristina Alfaro, general counsel and country compliance head at Citibank Costa Rica, has extensive experience in corporate law, banking law, compliance, and regulatory matters. Described as ‘strongly self-motivated and results...
| IGM Financial
The in-house legal team at IGM Financial is celebrated for its client focused business acumen as well as its thorough legal experience. Led by senior vice president and general counsel...
| ATB Financial
ATB Financial is an Albertan banking and financial services company with a reputation for technological innovation, as well as a strong emphasis on community. The bank’s legal team is led...
Vice president, legal affairs | Hydromega Services
Daniele Chouinard has been vice president, legal affairs for Hydromega Services – an industry leader in the development, construction, financing and operation of independent renewable energy facilities in Quebec and...
General counsel and corporate relations director - Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil | Diageo
Able to ‘command respect and inspire confidence’ by offering ‘creative legal solutions’ across three different jurisdictions, Nelcina Tropardi is Diageo’s general counsel and corporate relations director for Paraguay, Uruguay and...
Global general counsel | CSN
Fabio Spina is in charge of global legal affairs at Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), one of the largest steel producers in Latin America. Spina, a widely renowned lawyer, has assisted in...
General Counsel | Cetip
Cetip is one of the biggest companies within Brazil’s financial system, and despite a relatively rocky period for the sector in the country, Reinaldo Morais Filho continues to prove his...
| Financial Markets Authority - New Zealand
The legal team of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) of New Zealand has the opposite relationship to regulations than other in-house lawyers in the financial sector, being on the drafting...
Legal affairs manager | Molinos Río de la Plata
Molinos Río de la Plata is Argentina’s largest branded food-products company and is a subsidiary of the Perez Companc Family Group. Heading up the legal and compliance function is Ana...
Legal director | Biosidus
‘As part of the board of directors of the company and the director of legal affairs, my role is to deliver the most wise advice possible to our CEO for...
Head of legal for Argentina and Chile | Emerson Electric
American multinational Emerson Electric has recently undergone a large internal reorganisation process across its Latin American subsidiaries, which included the acquisition and divestiture of several assets. Emerson Electric has substantial...
General counsel Latin America – South region | The Dow Chemical Company
Josefina Tobías is the general counsel for Latin America South region at the Dow Chemical Company, a multinational chemical corporation, and is in charge of all legal matters in Argentina,...
Regional legal director | AbbVie
As regional legal director at AbbVie, Soledad Oubiña provides the company with excellent leadership and consistent safeguarding against the diverse issues it faces in the country. AbbVie is a US...
Director of legal and public affairs - Argentina and Paraguay | American Tower Corporation
Josefina Hernández Gazcón is a highly experienced corporate lawyer, described by nominators as a ‘heterogeneous professional that has developed her areas of expertise in each of the positions in which...
Head of legal affairs | Telefónica
Founded in 1924, Telefónica is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. Telefónica...
Legal head - Argentina, Paraguay, Peru | PepsiCo
PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with a product portfolio including 22 brands that generate more than US$1bn each in annual retail sales. Marina Codesal joined PepsiCo in...
Legal manager Argentina and Chile | Emerson
Providing legal support for the extremely diverse range of engineering products and services offered by Emerson, as well as the variety of sectors these provide for, is a task suitable...
Senior legal counsel | Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard Winemakers is the premium wine division of Pernod Ricard, one of the largest alcoholic beverage companies in the world. Edwina Stevenson joined the company in 2017 and has...
Senior legal counsel – group insurance | AIA Australia
Tina Davey joined AIA Australia (AIAA) as senior legal counsel in April 2016. She provides strategic legal support to AIAA’s group insurance channel and shared services teams, and is also...
General counsel | 3M
Joining 3M Thailand as general counsel in 2016, with responsibility for six emerging markets in the region as well as Thailand, Wiyada Srinaganand expanded her role in 2017 with her...
General counsel and business integrity officer | Unilever Philippines
Described as ‘instrumental to Unilever’s success’ by nominating sources due to her ‘elevation of the role of general counsel from a legal advisor to a trusted and valued business strategy...
Legal director | Ericsson Telecomunicações
For just over a year Carolina Azevedo has served as legal director for Brazil as part of Ericcson Telecomunicações’ global restructuring process. The company is now structured with the Brazil,...
Legal manager | Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao
Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) is one of the largest television networks in Brazil with a whole variety of programming including news, children’s shows, soap operas, game shows, movies and...
Senior legal manager | Syngenta Proteção de Cultivos
Since January 2011, Patricia Cristina Medeiros has been senior legal manager of Syngenta Proteção de Cultivos, a world leading agribusiness company in Brazil, with revenue of nearly US$3bn. She covers...
| IFC – International Finance Corporation
International Finance Corporation, the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries, operates in 22 countries within Sub-Saharan Africa, with offices in Senegal, Kenya and...
| Africa Finance Corporation
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) was founded in 2007 with a capital equity base of US$1bn to facilitate private sector led infrastructure investment in Africa. With US$4.2bn in capital, the corporation...
Legal manager | União de Lojas Leader
Carolina Matos Costa Bayão has been legal manager of União de Lojas Leader (Leader) since August 2017 and is a highly experience in-house counsel across the consumer goods sector. With...
Head of legal and compliance department – Hygiene and Home | Reckitt Benckiser Brasil
Ana Carolina Pescarmona is a seasoned attorney with 20 years of in-house counsel experience with multi-national corporations in Brazil. At Reckitt Benckiser (RB) Brazil, she has risen through the ranks...
Head of legal services | Coop
Head of legal services, Francesco Mainardi and his legal team at Coop have won praise for their involvement in environmental management recycling regulations. Coop is one of the largest retailers...
General counsel | Wockhardt
Debolina Partap has been at Wockhardt since 2006 and continues to excel at India’s largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. Wockhardt operates three research centres and 12 manufacturing centres across India...
General counsel | IL&FS Financial Services
Vinay Bhatia is general counsel at IL&FS Financial Services an infrastructure development financial services company in India. Affiliated to the Central Bank of India (CBI) and the Housing Development Finance...
Head of legal | Shell India Markets
Mrinal Sinha has been head of legal for Shell companies in India since 2006, and leads the legal country-wide function. He leads his team with the philosophy of understanding the...
| Football Club Dinamo Minsk
With over 90 years of history in Belorussian football, Dinamo Minsk ranks as the oldest and one of the most successful football clubs in the country. To ensure the smooth...
| Erste Bank (Finance legal)
The finance legal department at one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Eastern Europe, Erste Bank, is responsible for all legal issues related to the financing process....
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...
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...
| Norwegian Ministry of Finance
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance is the Norwegian government department responsible for implementation and analysis of government policy on taxation, regulation, financial markets, financial institutions, government and private pension schemes...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
| Rusfinance Bank
Covering 64 Russian regions from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, Societe Generale’s Russian subsidiary Rusfinance Bank ranks as one of the leading providers of consumer finance in the country. Headed by the...
| Ilyushin Finance
Ilyushin Finance is a Russian leasing company focusing on the aviation sector. It provides financial services to its parent company – the well-known Ilyushin Design Bureau – as well as...
| Ant Financial Services Group
Ant Financial’s legal team is led by general counsel Leiming Chen and currently consists of approximately 200 legal and compliance professionals. This large operation is split into the following functional...
| China Resources (Holdings)
The legal team at China Resources is responsible for the legal affairs relating to the company’s investments, its seven key strategic business units, 18 grade-1 profit centres, 1,987 business entities,...
| Bank of China (Hong Kong)
There are 19 team members in the legal, compliance and operational risk management department of Bank of China (Hong Kong) including 17 legal counsels, most of whom are qualified in...
| Agricultural Bank of China - Hong Kong Branch
The Hong Kong branch of the Agricultural Bank of China was founded in 1995 and was the first overseas branch of the Bank, providing a full range of banking services...
| Panalpina
The highly skilled in-house legal department at Panalpina continues to impress after its inclusion in the GC Powerlist: Colombia Teams 2017. Led by Juan Camilo Bernate, senior counsel, the team...
| Grupo Empresarial Colombina
Grupo Empresarial Colombina is a global food company that endeavours to delight consumers with its winning combination of innovation and great tasting products. It is anchored by its strong master...
| General Motors Financial (GMF)
General Motors Financial is the financial services arm of the global automobile manufacturer General Motors, providing automobile finance across the world with operations in the US, Canada, China, Indonesia, Australia...
| Alpina Productos Alimenticios
Alpina Productos Alimenticios’ legal team is headed by executive director Cristina De La Vega, who in addition to legal affairs is also in charge of corporate affairs, government relations, communications,...
| Walmart China
Establishing a presence within the Chinese market has been a major strategic objective for Walmart since the mid-1990s, and while it already has an impressive presence in the PRC –...
| Vitasoy China
One of the leading plant-based food and beverage producers globally, Vitasoy China’s compact and extremely capable legal team has been a strong performer in a rapidly expanding market for the...
| UBS China
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS, UBS China’s financial story started in China in July 2012 when it set up headquarters in Beijing. Today it has exponentially grown to a...
| State Grid Corporation of China
State Grid Corporation of China is the world’s largest utility company, and as of 2018, is the world’s second largest company overall by revenue. In order to maintain its global...
| Sony Corporation China
Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Corporation, occupies an active area in the technology zone in China, thriving in its operations of manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics products. Founded in 1996 and...
| Skechers China
The in-house legal team at Skechers China has rapidly expanded, more than doubling in size in the last two years to accommodate its growing business. The legal team now has...
| Russia-China Investment Fund
The Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF) is a private equity fund that was established in June 2012 by two government-backed investment entities – the Russian Direct Investment Fund and China Investment...
| Royal Caribbean Cruises Service (China)
The in-house legal and compliance team of Royal Caribbean Cruises Service (China) is described by nominators as having ‘consistently provided effective and high quality in-house service for Royal Caribbean’s China...
| Pfizer (China) Research and Development
Pfizer (China) Research and Development maintains a large legal team which has consistently provided effective and high quality in-house services for Pfizer Asia Pacific. In past years, Pfizer China and...
| Nestlé (China)
Nestlé is the largest food company in the world, with more than 2,000 brands and operations in 189 countries. China is perceived as Nestlé’s second largest market with the first...
| NBCUniversal China
NBCUniversal is a world leading media and entertainment company involved in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. Lee-Peng Chow serves as the...
| Morgan Stanley Greater China
In 1994, Morgan Stanley opened its Shanghai office, establishing a presence in China as one of the first global investment banks. Since then, it has provided fully-integrated financial services across...
| McDonald's China
The legal team of McDonald’s China has been central to the impressive expansion it has achieved in the country over the past two years in the wake of a major...
| Mary Kay China
Mary Kay is a privately owned US marketing company, and in 2015 was named the sixth largest network marketing company in the world with a wholesale volume of US$3.7bn. As...
| Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is one of the big four state-owned banks in China and the largest bank in the world by total assets, deposits, loans, number...
| IBM - Greater China Group
IBM Greater China Group leads the IT multinational’s business interests in Greater China, one of IBM’s largest markets and production centres for its global portfolio of technology products and services....
| HSBC Banking (China)
HSBC is a major international retail and commercial bank with its Chinese headquarters in Shanghai, and since 2007 has been one of the first locally incorporated foreign banks. However, with...
| Daimler Greater China
Daimler Greater China’s legal team is led by head of integrity and legal Matt Kendrick, an extremely experienced general counsel whose decade-long period in the automotive industry – beginning with...
| China Telecom
China Telecom is an institution in the communications industry operating one of the largest landline and mobile phone services, as well as internet broadband networks, with 250 million mobile customers...
| China State Construction Engineering
China State Construction Engineering (China Construction), was officially established in 2007 after a corporate restructure process, and was invested in by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), China National Petroleum...
| China Southern Airlines
China Southern Airlines is a major international airline based in Guangzhou, striving to become the Cantonese link between China and the rest of the world. It is well on its...
| China Railway Construction Corporation
The China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) is China’s largest construction company operating numerous projects across the world. The state owned entity is dual listed on the Hong Kong and Shanghai...
| China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
CNPC is one of the top three oil and gas producers globally and among the largest energy companies in China alongside China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Sinopec. CNPC...
| China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)
CNOOC was founded in 1982 and is the largest offshore oil and gas producer in China. The state owned and operated company is headquartered in Beijing, however its footprint reaches...
| China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation (I&G)
China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation (I&G) is a leading enterprise in the guarantee industry in China and president member of the China Financing Guarantee Association (CFGA), established in 1993...
| China National Chartering Co. (Sinochart)
Recognised for its ability to deal with a high volume of disputes of a varying nature, Sinochart’s legal team is one of the most proficient operators in this category in...
| China Mobile
China Mobile is a dominant force in the telecommunications sector across mainland China and Hong Kong, providing full services across all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and directly-administered municipalities. It has...
| China International Capital Corporation (CICC)
The first Chinese investment company to receive regulatory approval to manage private equity funds back in 2010, China International Capital Corporation (CICC) has gone from strength to strength since then....
| China Grand Enterprises
China Grand Enterprises (CGE) operates as an investment company whose business covers pharmaceuticals, commercial trade, real estate and finance. The company is also a parent company of three publicly-traded companies:...
| China Eastern Air Holding Company
Now with over 500 aircraft in its fleet, China Eastern Airlines is a major player in the global airline industry and looks set to expand even further, with ambitions to...
| China Development Bank
Founded in 1994, China Development Bank (CDB) started operating under the leadership of the State Council and was incorporated as China Development Bank Corporation in December 2008, and officially defined...
| China Construction Bank
China Construction Bank is an industry leading joint-stock commercial bank in China, based in Beijing, The bank’s history dates back to 1954. The bank was listed on the Hong Kong...
| China CITIC Bank
Particularly lauded for its excellent record in litigations, the China CITIC Bank legal function is also well-respected for its generally high level of expertise and extremely proficient core of senior...
| China Cinda Asset Management
China Cinda Asset Management’s legal team is regarded as among the very best in the Chinese market, winning an industry award for best in-house legal team in the state-owned enterprise...
| BP China
BP, the British Petroleum Company, has a major presence in China where it is a leading innovator within the oil and gas industry and is constantly looking to expand and...
| BMW Group China
BMW has enjoyed a very impressive 2018 in China, and its 10-person BMW Group China legal affairs department based in Beijing has been a major contributing factor in this. The...
| Bayer China
Global pharmaceutical company Bayer entered the Chinese market in 1882, and it has been a major centre for Bayer’s pharmaceutical production ever since. Now a household name in drug production,...
| Ant Financial Services
The operator of leading mobile payments platform Alipay, Ant Financial Services relies upon its uniformly excellent professionals to retain its edge in a highly demanding and innovative market, with its...
| Air China
An exciting 2018 has seen Air China announce a number of deals which again prove China’s flag carrier is among the world’s leading airlines. New aircraft have joined its fleet,...
| Agricultural Bank of China
The Agricultural Bank of China is a major banking institution founded to facilitate the financing of agriculture and create banking services for farmers across rural areas of China. Since then...
| ABB China
ABB is an industry leading technology company producing innovative power grids, electrification products, industrial automation, and robotics in the utilities, industrial, transport and infrastructure sectors all over the world. The...
| Qatar Financial Centre
Headed by former Shell in-house lawyer Nasser Al-Taweel (one of the first Qatari nationals to be admitted to the Senior Courts of England and Wales), the Qatar Financial Centre Authority’s...
| GFH Financial Group
GFH Financial Group (GFH) has put pen to paper on some eye-catching transactions in 2018. Alongside paying off the outstanding amount of a 2007-drawn US$200m sukuk in August, it announced...
| Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Europe) - Milan Branch
The in-house team of the legal and compliance department of the Milan branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is currently composed of six professionals, out of a...
| Zurich Insurance Company - M&A, Finance and Investments (MFI)
Zurich Insurance Company is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in both global and local markets. With approximately 54,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and...
| Trina Solar (Schweiz)
Considered one of the leading solar panel manufacturers with numerous branches in the US, Europe and Latin America, Trina Solar creates industry leading solutions for residential and commercial establishments. The...
| PostFinance
PostFinance is one of Switzerland’s leading retail financial institutions and, as the number one for Swiss payment transactions, ensures a seamless flow of liquidity. It is the first choice for...
Head of legal | Iliad Italia
Before her move in to the in-house legal sector, Lina Vitolo had been working for almost six years as a competition lawyer in major law firms in Italy and Belgium....
General counsel | Generali Italia
Cristina Rustignoli is the general counsel and non-executive director for Italian insurance company Generali Italia, a subsidiary of Generali Group. She started her career at savings Italian bank, Cassa di...
General counsel | Esso Italiana
Raimondo Rinaldi has been the general counsel of Esso Italiana since 1997, and from 1998 to 2008 he also managed the coordination of legal services to ExxonMobil affiliates in the...
General counsel and compliance officer | Schindler
Since being admitted to the Italian Bar in 2007, Giorgio Gravina held several in-house and private practice positions, including working as a legal counsel at Heineken Italia, senior legal advisor...
| Standard Chartered Aviation Finance
The Standard Chartered legal team in Ireland, which focuses solely on aviation finance, operates as a flat structure with three senior legal counsel based in Ireland who report into the...
| China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding
Described by a nominator as ‘technically sound with strong business skills to boot’, head of legal at China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding Jin Zhai has oversight of all of...
| China Merchants Securities International Company
Chief legal and compliance officer Johnny Chan heads the legal and compliance team of China Merchants Securities International and is supported by three Hong Kong qualified lawyers, who together with...
| China International Capital Corporation (Hong Kong)
China International Capital Corporation (Hong Kong) is the offshore intermediate holding company for CICC, one of China’s leading investment banks. In his role as managing director and head of legal...
| China Great Wall AMC (International) Holdings Company
As head of legal and compliance at China Great Wall AMC (International) Holdings, Lulu Zhang, who practised in an international law firm for over a decade in both Hong Kong...
| China Development Bank, Hong Kong Branch
Founded in 1994, China Development Bank (CDB) is the world’s largest development finance institution, and the largest Chinese bank for financing cooperation, long-term lending and bond issuance. Providing medium to...
| Bank of China (Hong Kong)
Headed by Carmen Kan, the legal department of Bank of China (Hong Kong) consists of 19 lawyers and four paralegals, covering areas including legal, compliance, operational risk, fraud risk and...
| Ant Financial Services Group
Ant Financial is a technology company that brings inclusive financial services to the world. As of January 2019, together with its global joint venture partners, Ant Financial served one billion...
| Agricultural Bank of China - Hong Kong Branch
Agricultural Bank of China’s Hong Kong Branch was established in November 1995 as the first overseas branch for the parent Bank, which is one of China’s “big four” banks. At...
General counsel | PostNord
A Swedish public limited company headquartered in Solna, PostNord was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between Post Danmark and Posten. PostNord is owned 40% by the...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Volvo Group Trucks Operations
As the senior vice president and general counsel of one of Sweden’s most valuable manufacturing companies, Martina Klaus is responsible for legal matters, logistics and regulatory affairs at Volvo Group...
Group general counsel | Com Hem Holding
Christina Källenfors is the group general counsel of Com Hem Holding – Sweden’s largest cable company and a leading supplier of television and high-speed broadband – and explains her significant...
Legal counsel | Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB)
Christina Johard joined Swedish financial organisation SEB in 2011, and during her years as a legal counsel at the Bank had the opportunity to consolidate and add to her financial...
General counsel and senior vice president, legal and sustainability | SKF
Carina Bergfelt is a long-serving legal professional for leading global technology provider SKF, having been with the firm since 1990. Founded in 1907, SKF focuses on the development of new...
Group legal counsel | Folksam
Folksam is a large Swedish insurance company with a wide range of products requiring a variety of legal area coverage. Group legal counsel Stina Åkerlind joined Folksam after developing her...
| Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE)
Since being founded in 1961, RECOPE has grown into one of Central America’s biggest companies in terms of annual sales revenues. To match its profile as a leading company in...
| Grupo Financiero Ficohsa
Founded in 1991 by a group of entrepreneurs, Grupo Financiero Ficohsa has grown rapidly in under 30 years and is able to boast a regional presence as a well as...
| Grupo Financiero Banrural
Following the privatisation of the country’s state-run bank in 1997, Banrural has quickly become one of Guatemala’s leading financial institutions and today has over 10,000 employees and 1000 branches. Led...
| Grupo Financiero Agromercantil (BAM)
Banco Agromercantil de Guatemala was created from the merger of two large banking entities Banco Agrícola Mercantil and Banco del Agro and currently stands as the fourth largest bank in...
Vice president, head of business and legal affairs, Latin America and US Hispanic | BBC Worldwide
Cristina Scarano Canino is a business and legal professional with expertise in the media and television industry. In her current position at BBC Worldwide she has responsibility for legal matters...
Senior legal director and compliance officer – Latin America | Medtronic
Miami-based Rodrigo Medina is responsible for providing legal and compliance support across Latin America for Medtronic, the largest standalone medical technology company in the world and a global leader in...
Associate General Counsel, Latin America | Tech Data
Tech Data acquired Avnet’s Technology Solutions business for $2.6 billion in early 2017, announcing shortly afterwards that it would continue with the existing staff. As such, Bettina Freire, associate general...
| Telia Finance
Telia Finance is an independent company acting as a finance engine for Telia Company, one of the world��s biggest telecom operators with more than 185 million customers and 21,000 employees....
| Nobina
Summing up the success of the company’s legal team, Martin Pagrotsky – Nobina’s general counsel, chief compliance officer and company secretary – explains that his function has been ‘very successful...
| Arvato Financial Solutions
A Bertelsmann Group subsidiary, Arvato Financial Solutions is a global financial service provider with around 7,500 employees in 20 countries, including a strong presence in Europe, America and Asia. The...
| Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Europe) – Milan Branch
Despite a relatively small function of three staff, the legal team of the Milan Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) – one of China’s state-owned banking...
| GE Capital – Industrial Finance
The Industrial Finance arm of GE Capital provides financing solutions to GE Industrial businesses and their global customers through a wide range of products and financing solutions. Emiliano Verniero is...
| Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero
Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (CONASSIF) is Costa Rica’s national council of financial system supervision and its legal department has a key role in the overall strategy and...
| China Fortune Land Development
China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) is a leading new industry city developer and operator listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange currently managing over 90 new industry cities in China and...
Director of the legal department - business division | Banco del Bajío
Since its foundation in 1994, Banco del Bajío has transitioned from being a niche bank to one with national coverage offering a full range of banking products and services. Having...
Deputy chairman of the board | Bank Saint Petersburg
Legal and corporate affairs director | Uralkali
Traded on the Moscow Exchange, Uralkali is a leading Russian potash fertilizer producer and exporter that employs around 11,000 people. The company was founded in 2011 after the merger of...
General counsel (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) | Unilever
Having opened its first Russian representative office in 1992, the multinational consumer goods company Unilever is celebrating 25 years of operating in the country this year. Since 2015, Anastasia Shkarina...
Head of legal and compliance (Russia) | Astellas Pharma Europe
At the end of 2016 and in early 2017, the Japanese pharmaceutical company Astellas adopted a considerable number of new legal and compliance policies and procedures to cope with significant...
Head of Legal | Don- Story
Head of legal at one of the best known and fastest growing developers in the Moscow property market, Ekaterina Regeda receives praise from nominators for her excellent transactional work. In...
Legal and compliance director (Russia and CIS) | MSD
US based MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Heading the legal and compliance functions for its Russian and CIS regional operations is Polina...
Legal manager - general counsel | Distribuidora Nissan (Grupo Vardí)
Catalina Robledo Ramirez has been a corporate lawyer for over 15 years, acquiring wide experience as general counsel in board of directors and shareholder meetings and all matters related with...
Executive director, legal department | VTB Capital
Described by peers as ‘proactive, ambitious efficient in many areas of the law’, Alina Kuznetsova navigates the legal function of one of the largest investment banks in Russia and Eastern...
Legal director and CCO (Eurasian Zone) | Sanofi
Sanofi’s Tatiana Kulyabina has recently influenced the strategic direction of her company with her leadership of transformational internal projects. In particular, Kulyabina and her team shaped the framework for an...
Head of Legal | BTC Group
BTC Group’s Irina Kosmina stands out with her recent participation in complex international arbitrations, as well as with her transformative internal initiatives. A significant centralisation of functions has recently been...
Client contracts manager | Schlumberger
Joining Schlumberger in October 2015, Carolina Parra brings her previous in-house experience, sales and marketing technique to the client contracts manager role having a hand in a number of deals...
Senior counsel Andes Region - International Legal Operations | Abbott
Carolina Neira has been at Abbott, the US based pharmaceutical giant, since 2013 and is currently senior counsel for the Andes region for international legal operations. She has previously been...
General counsel | Sporveien Oslo
Responsible for legal, compliance and corporate governance at Sporveien Group, Christina Wiggen has been continuously noted by peers in the region for her all round competence and diligence in the...
Legal coordinator and compliance officer | Vision Software
Juan Camilo Medina Moreno joined Vision Software in April 2015 after working at J. Echeverri and Asociados covering IP, commercial law and other civil law topics. Medina worked at Vision...
Director of legal department | Mechel
Headquartered in Moscow and comprising of producers of coal, iron ore and steel, Mechel is one of Russia’s leading mining and metals companies. Irina Ipeeva is currently the company’s legal...
General counsel | Folketrygdfondet
As the first lawyer at Folketrygdfondet, the state-owned company that manages Norway’s government pension fund, Christina Stray knew she had to pave the way and structure the function to make...
Vice president legal affairs | Grupo Sanford
Christina Llordeda has led the legal team at Grupo Sanford since 2013 joining with strong in-house experience from Citibank Colombia, experience in private practice as an associate at Brigard and...
Legal manager Latin America North (Colombia, Peru and Ecuador) | Janssen Cilag
Carolina Forero is a practicing attorney from the Universidad de los Andes with a LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a specialist degree in environmental law...
Head of legal | Radius Group
2016 has been a significant year in Natalya Blokhina’s career, as she participated in signing one of the biggest transactions in the history of Radius Group, a built-to-suit project or...
Senior vice president, legal and compliance and general counsel | Kvaerner
Henrik Inadomi is the senior vice president and general counsel at Kvaerner, an engineering and construction services company that has a long history in the decommissioning of off shore oil...
General counsel Central America and Andean region | Unilever
With extensive academic experience in financial and commercial law as a professor of competition and international procurement law at the Externado de Colombia University, Rossario University and Pontifical Javeriana University,...
Chief legal and corporate affairs officer | Yörsan
Founded in 1964, Yörsan is Turkey’s leading diary company supplying high quality food products to over 20 countries around the world. Buse Pinar Kaçar joined the company as Chief legal...
| Piramal Finance
Piramal Finance is a global diversified business conglomerate with operations in several sectors including pharmaceuticals, health care information management, financial services, specialty glass packaging and real estate. The structure of...
| L&T Finance Holdings
Conducting its financial services businesses through various subsidiaries, L&T Finance Holdings is an Indian holding company offering a focused range of financial products and services across rural, housing and wholesale...
Head of group legal and compliance officer | Abfall Service
Abfall Service is Austria’s leading waste management company, providing broad general waste solutions for the municipal, industrial, commercial and retail sectors as well as for domestic households. In the capacity...
Legal coordinator CEE | Rewe Group
REWE Group, a German diversified retail and tourism co-operative, has a number of significant operations in Central and Eastern Europe through its portfolio of companies. Among them is Billa, the...
Head of legal | Agrana Romania
Austrian food company Agrana has operated in Romania since 1998 and is now a company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange market, and the country’s most important sugar producer with...
Legal director | Rosia Montana Gold Corporation
With over 14 years of experience in both private practice services and in-house legal counselling, Adina Calfa Dudoiu has experience of handling legal matters in the mining, telecommunication, media, audio-visual...
Chief legal and compliance officer (CLCO) | Postcon Deutschland
A leading mail company Postcon Deutschland is responsible for delivering billions of letters per year. Christina Sontheim now leads a team of eight individuals in her role as chief legal...
Senior corporate vice president and general counsel | Boehringer Ingelheim
IT services goliath Fujitsu maintains a significant presence around the globe, and Germany is no exception. General counsel, vice president legal and commercial for Central Europe Martina Seidl has around...
| Lumina Copper Chile
Jointly owned by two Japanese companies – Pacific Copper and Mitsui & Co, Lumina Copper Chile owns and operates the Atacama based Caserones copper-molybdenum project. Launched in 2006, the project...
Chief compliance officer and company lawyer | Inter Hannover
Julia-Christina Friedrich was recruited in 2014 by Hannover Re to assist in the relocation of its primary insurance subsidiary, Inter Hannover, from London to Hannover. This was the first time...
| Coca-Cola Andina
Coca-Cola Andina is the franchise operation of Coca-Cola in Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Demonstrating its size, in Chile the company has recorded a total sales volume for unit boxes...
Chief officer for legal and corporate affairs | Telefónica
Valentina Daiber leads the legal team at Telefónica Germany, a telecoms company with over 25 million customers. Joining Telefónica Germany, then known Viag Interkom, in 1999, she started as an...
| Aguas Andinas
Aguas Andinas is Chile’s largest sanitary company serving two million households and providing 100% coverage in all areas of Chile. The company is going through a large period of growth...
| Marina Bay Sands
The spectacular Marina Bay Sands resort, one of the most recognisable landmarks in Singapore, retains a highly qualified in-house legal team headed by general counsel Faris Alsagoff. Amongst the 20-person...
| Indonesia Infrastructure Finance (IFF) - Transaction Legal Department
Established by the Indonesian government, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Finance Corporation and other multilateral institutions in 2010, Indonesia Infrastructure Finance (IFF) is a private company providing infrastructure...
| Finansia Multi Finance
A major player in the financing market, Finansia Multi Finance maintains a relatively lean legal department of four individuals to safeguard the fortunes of its 10,000 employees. However, as head...
Legal manager Peru | Compañía Minera Ares
As the legal manager for Compañía Minera Ares – an affiliate of Hochschild Mining, Jaime Rinaldi Mansilla has been behind some of its most notable transactions over the last few...
Legal and integrity manager | ABB
As the legal and integrity manager for the ABB subsidiary in Peru, a position she has been in since April 2013, Yesenia Marina Quiroz Zegarra has been key to multiple...
Director and executive vice president of the legal and regulatory division | Rimac Seguros y Reaseguros
A close confidant to the most senior professionals within Peruvian insurance company RIMAC Seguros, Luis Javier Venturo Urbina is not only the lead lawyer in the group as evidenced by...
General counsel | Inteligo Group and Inteligo Sab
Following a successful private practice career, during which she operated at associate and senior associate level for the Estudio Grau, Hernández & Rosselló and Hernández & Cía law firms respectively,...
Chief legal counsel | JLL México
Wholly owned by Jones Lang LaSalle, JLL México has been providing specialised services to the Mexican real estate industry since 1991. Describing the company’s current chief legal counsel, Agustín Ballina...
| Telecom Argentina
Telecom Argentina is a major Argentine telephone operator that covers the Northern part of Argentina including the capital city of Buenos Aires. Having grown incrementally since its foundation in 1990,...
| Simplot Argentina
The two-person legal team at the Argentine joint venture operation of the multinational food and agribusiness company Simplot, deals with all legal matters faced by the business regionally, providing support...
| SAS Institute Argentina
SAS Institute, the US multinational analytical software developer, is a company that continues to expand its presence outside its home market. The growth of SAS in Latin America is overseen...
| Petrobras Argentina
Petrobras Argentina was first formed as the Argentina-based subsidiary of Brazilian energy conglomerate Petróleo Brasileiro, however is now under control of Argentina’s domestic energy giant Pampa Energía. Petrobras Argentina is...
| Oracle Argentina
Sun Microsystems was integrated into the Oracle business after the multinational computer technology company’s acquisition in 2010. This complex merger of two leading technology companies required a tremendous amount of...
| Novartis Argentina
The Argentine legal department of the multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis embraces a “matrix-like” organisational structure, whereby the country legal heads of the internal divisions (Pharma, Onco, Alcon or Sandoz) report...
| L'Oréal Argentina
A compact but dynamic, knowledgeable and business-savvy legal function, multinational consumer products giant L’Oréal’s legal team in Argentina is comprised of three individuals; Solange Kurchan as legal manager, Matías Sorondo...
| Holcim Argentina
Holcim is a pioneer company in the construction industry in Argentina, it produces and markets cement, concrete and stone aggregates. Its first Argentine cement manufacturing plant was built in 1930...
| Citibank Argentina
The March 2017 sale of Citi’s consumer business in Argentina had a big impact on the company’s legal team in the country. Explaining the effect of the function’s reduction in...
| Alfred C. Toepfer International Argentina (ACTIAR)
Praised by nominators for the strength of the ‘internal relationships and interaction of the team’ which leads to the ‘efficient execution’ of its tasks, the legal team of agricultural commodities...
| Aerolíneas Argentinas
Aerolíneas Argentinas is the largest airline in Argentina and is also the country’s flag carrier. It has been run by the Argentine government since late 2008, when the country regained...
| ManpowerGroup Argentina
With over 50 years of local experience, US Fortune 500 company ManpowerGroup develops innovative human capital solutions for more than 2,000 clients in Argentina. The legal team at the Group’s...
| The Financial Times
In January, The Financial Times (FT) broke the story of the Presidents Club dinner. This went on to dominate the UK news and gain global reach, becoming the most read...
Chief legal and compliance officer | Dixons South East Europe (Kotsovolos)
Having worked for it since 1994, Katerina Vracha boasts immense experience of working with Dixons South East Europe (known as Kotsovolos), and is able to draw from an intimate and...
General counsel - Greece and Cyprus | Unilever
Tri-lingual legal professional Christina Vasilopoulou moved to Unilever in May 2017. As general counsel for both Greece and Cyprus she covers a wide remit and, with a long standing career,...
Head of legal administration | O1 Advisory
In her role as head of legal administration for O1 Advisory, Nicosia-based Adina-Viviana Szemethy is tasked with providing legal support to one of the largest Russian commercial real estate investment...
Head of legal | VICTUS Networks
Konstantina Schiza is the head of legal at VICTUS Networks, a company that was formed as a 50/50 joint venture between Vodafone Greece and its domestic rival Wind Hellas in...
Group legal director | INTRASOFT International
INTRASOFT International is a leading European IT solutions and services group with strong international presence and expertise. Among the Luxembourg-based company’s 1,700 highly-skilled professionals is group legal director Tzina Prokopidou...
Head of legal and compliance Greece | Deutsche Bank
Katerina Papageorgiou is the head of legal and compliance for the Greek operations of world-renowned financial services institution Deutsche Bank. Appointed to her role in April 2012, she has approximately...
Legal manager | Intership Navigation
A maritime law specialist, having obtained an LLB and LLM in the field before embarking on her professional career in earnest, Georgina Panayiotou is legal manager for Limassol-based shipping company...
Head of legal and compliance | Commercial General Insurance
Established in 1973, Commercial General Insurance is among the leading companies in the Cypriot general insurance sector, operating branches in all major towns, as well as a large network of...
Corporate lawyer and general counsel | Dodoni Ice Cream
The current general counsel at the largest ice cream brand in Greece, Christina Karakosta is a long-serving legal professional with Dodoni Ice Cream, having spent over 13 years at the...
Head of legal department | Cyprus Airways
Since a much publicised cessation of operations in 2015, ending a period of operation which had gone on for almost 70 years, the Cyprus Airways brand has taken on new...
Legal and compliance counsel | SAP Hellas
Legal and compliance counsel for Greece, Cyprus and Malta at multinational software corporation SAP, Katerina Galanopoulou considers herself as more than simply a legal professional: ‘Working closely with SAP management...
Legal and compliance affairs director | Merck Sharp & Dohme
US multinational pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) has been present in Portugal for 45 years and today is the country’s market leader. Maria Cristina Ribeiro has worked in...
Legal and tax director – Spain and secretary of the board of directors | Grupo Lactalis Iberia
Having been legal and tax director of Grupo Lactalis Iberia since 2012, David López Medína knows the operations of leading dairy company from top to bottom, and takes on secretarial...
Head of legal | Banco CTT
Part of Portugal’s national postal service CTT, Banco CTT evolved out the parent company’s financial services business. The bank’s recently appointed head of legal Catarina Gonçalves Oliveira has already impressed...
Head of legal, Europe | Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE)
Formerly an in-house lawyer at large companies in Spain such as Seat and Sara Lee, Cristina Crespo now serves as the head of legal for Europe of Jacobs Douwe Egberts,...
Head of legal department Europe | Cintra
‘After ten years working as an associate lawyer in the M&A department of Cuatrecasas in Madrid, I decided to make a turn in my professional career and in November 2016...
Assistant general counsel (Sub-Saharan Africa) | IFC - International Finance Corporation
Zurina Saban is a highly accomplished in-house legal officer, and has an abundance of technical legal skill in a number of areas. In particular, her abilities surrounding project finance and...
Chief officer: legal and regulatory affairs | Vodacom Tanzania
One of the most knowledgeable legal professionals in Tanzania, Vodacom’s Nina Pendaeli Eshun has worked as a lawyer for over 15 years. Starting her legal career at the Attorney General’s...
| Housing Finance Company of Kenya
The legal department of the HF Group, a major East African mortgage provider, is divided into two separate units: a commercial unit that handles documentation and a litigation unit. Reacting...
Company secretary and head of legal | Housing Finance Kenya
As head of legal and company secretarial functions at one of East Africa’s leading mortgage providers, Regina Anyika has faced a range of legal, commercial and strategic challenges. She has...
General counsel Middle East and Africa | Agility
The Kuwait headquartered Agility is one of the world’s leading providers of integrated logistics with more than 22,000 employees in over 500 offices and 100 countries. The company operates a...
Senior legal counsel and head of the legal department | UAE Trading Group
The domestic luxury retail company, UAE Trading, opened the first boutique store offering luxury brands to the domestic market, back in 1972. Today it owns and operates 24 multi-brand boutiques...
Partner | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Number of years practice: 20 Law school attended: Stanford Law School (JD) Languages spoken: English, Portuguese and Spanish Principal practice areas: Energy Finance, Infrastructure Finance, Project Finance Admissions: New York...
INA is a mid-sized European oil company, and a major player in the Croatian energy business with a strong presence in the region. The company is involved in oil and gas exploration and production, oil processing, as well as oil product distribution activities. In addition to its home country of Croatia, INA has business operations in Angola and Egypt, and manages a regional network of 495 petrol stations in Croatia and neighboring countries. Capably mitigating legal risk on behalf of the company is INA’s in-house legal team, which is a highly diligent function well-versed in the issues surrounding the often volatile oil and gas sector. Director of legal services Luka Pavleković has been with the company for almost ten years and leads a team adept at operating within various fields of law. These issues include commercial affairs, IP, M&A, contracts and litigation for both upstream and downstream issues, as well as on improvement of business processes and efficiencies with legal oversight of INA’s ongoing and future projects.
