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Victor Andres Gómez Henao joined insurer La Previsora as legal process manager in June 2016 at a time when the Colombian state-owned insurer was preparing for a significant change in ownership. Shortly before he joined, Colombia’s director of public credit, Milena Lopez, announced that the government intends to sell La Previsora within a year as part of its privatisation and revenue raising programme. Gómez Henao is the ideal candidate to help lead the organisation through this period of turbulence, having previous experience of helping navigate senior staff through a company’s change of ownership in the insurance sector. He was head of legal at Colpatria Seguros when, in 2013, French insurer Axa acquired a 51% stake in the company from its Colombian parent entity Grupo Mercantil Colpatria. According to one senior private practice lawyer, Gómez Henao keeps those around him focused during a difficult period and is ‘among the best guys to have in a room when things get difficult, besides which, he is a phenomenal lawyer’.