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With a $71bn asset management portfolio and annual revenues around $20bn, Quiñenco is one of the largest business conglomerates in Chile. Chief counsel Rodrigo Hinzpeter assists the company participate in the banking, maritime shipping and retail sectors among others in international locations. He says this facet of the company’s operations ‘forces him to be very connected to different legislations, markets and cultures and to be always flexible during the process and firm but polite when a decision is necessary’. One of the biggest impacts Rodrigo Hinzpeter deals with is the constantly evolving corporate governance practices defined by regulators worldwide, and ensuring the company’s entities are always fully compliant with FCPA statutes. ‘I give permanent attention to this issues’, he says. Hinzpeter’s background is almost as diverse and as impressive as the sectors the company operates in. He has worked in private practice law firms in both Chile and New York (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett) but between 2010 and 2012 worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in the following two years Ministry of Defense, during the government of President Sebastian Piñera. Whilst his private practice law firm experience gave him ‘knowledge to manage and lead complex transactions and to identify key issues in complex contracts’, his time in government gave him ‘aptitude to manage and solve problems at a national level, of tremendous size that affect millions of people’. ‘Also, my time at the Ministry of State gives me the opportunity to understand the way the authority reasons; the way they approach problems, and how they solve them’, he says. This makes him perfectly placed to fulfil his current duties of being director of several companies in the group, such as CCU Chile, CCU Argentina, Tech Pack and Invexans and continue to excel in his handling of activities related to corporate law, acquisitions, mergers, and financial matters.