About

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 of tenders, providing strategic legal advice and dealing with a broad range of environmental issues and matters that affect the public image of the company. Since 2010, she has also held responsibility for the transport business of Alstom in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Since joining the company, Carrasco is credited for transforming the legal function from an operational support role into a necessary tool for the business, one that has an important role in all strategic decisions made by the company. Described as a ‘knowledgeable legal director’ and a ‘competent lawyer’, she receives praise from peers for a dynamism that enables her to simultaneously deal with several projects at the same time with excellent results, as well as for her ability to close large, complex and long-term contracts. Carrasco began her in-house legal career at the family-owned forestry group, Maderas Condor in 1997. Before that she spent several years in private practice, working for Aylwin Abogados.