Adriana Sinisterra Plana leads the legal team at Fox Networks Group Latin America (Fox) with extensive industry experience and commercial acumen that makes her a leader in the industry who...

With a strong focus on operations in Colombia, Canadian petroleum company Frontera (formerly Pacific Exploration and Production) has contributed heavily towards to the nation’s economy through its production of oil....

Alejandra Acosta Hernandez has over 10 years’ experience of working in-house including at multinationals such as Schneider Electric, Millicom, Codere and, since 2016, Praxair Colombia. He is an expert in...

After just one year of impressing colleagues in his previous role as senior in-house lawyer at utilities company Vatia, Alejandro Amelines Guerrero was recommended for the position of general counsel...

Riopaila Castilla is a Colombian Agroindustrial Group with 100 years of experience in the national and international sugar, honey, alcohol, energy and palm markets in both production and commercialisation. Alfredo...

Alirio Uribe García joined MASA, part of the flour company Stork, in 2008 to lead its labour law area where, at that time, MASA had around 2,500 direct employees in...

With extensive commercial and corporate law experience in private practice in Venezuela and Colombia, an LLM in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University, and two years at the Inter-...

Andrea Campo’s areas of focus are conflict resolution, litigation and consulting. Practising first as an independent lawyer in the area of public and household services and utilities, contract law and...

Odinsa, an infrastructure construction company and a subsidiary of Grupo Argos, is a Colombian company dedicated to the structuring, promotion, management and development of road and airport infrastructure projects focusing...

With a deep knowledge of all relevant legal and commercial factors affecting multinational corporations business in the region, Andres Jaramillo Caballero is known for his skill across several practice areas...

With extensive experience in the telecommunications industry, and previous regulatory experience in the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Andrés Perez Velasco joined Publicar in 2011 as head of legal affairs....

Highly respected amongst peers and colleagues, Arusiak Mardirousian has been working in high-profile in-house legal roles for Hewlett Packard since she joined the ranks of the US multinational technology company...

As legal and compliance manager for Corona, a Colombian multinational with 135 years of business history that manufactures and markets products for home and construction, Bernardo Avila occupies a prominent...

Camilo Abello has been the vice president of corporate aff airs at Grupo Argos, an industry leading multinational coal mining company in Colombia since 2012. He is a lawyer from...

The agriculture division of DowDuPont, Corteva, is the only major agriscience company completely dedicated to agriculture. In Latin America, the company relies on the counsel provided by Camilo Gutierrez, a...

Since moving in-house to join the prominent financial services company Grupo Bancolombia in 2010 as a senior associate in their investment banking division, Carlos Aldana has progressed quickly in Colombia’s...

After a short time in private practice Carlos Andrés Rodríguez Schrader is making a name for himself as an up and coming in-house lawyer. Since 2015, Rodríguez has worked his...

Carlos Calderón started his career at Lizarazu, Sossa and Peña, a boutique consumer goods and antitrust law firm, and was subsequently seconded to AbbVie, where he began specialising in healthcare...

Since beginning his legal career just over 10 years ago, Carlos Cesar Barrero Vicuña has excelled in a number of positions which landed him the role of head of legal...

In a career that started over 25 years ago, Carlos Herrera has held high profile government and corporate positions and today is the general counsel of ETB, a large Colombia...

Carlos Laguado’s, reputation as a global leader in financial legal management started at Grupo Bolívar, a Latin American financial conglomerate active in banking, insurance, stock brokerage and real estate. As...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HOCOL is a hydrocarbon exploration and production company with six decades of oil and gas experience in Colombia. Since 1956 the company has had a presence extending to the lower...

In the role of legal director and general secretary, Claudia Caballero has led the legal team at Alpina, Colombia’s number one dairy production company, since July 2015. She brings her...

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...

For twelve years, Daniel Perea Villa has worked as corporate and legal affairs head at Terpel. It is a consultant position through which the company’s biggest challenges are projected from...

Diana C. Daza Vallejos started working at SGS Colombia, a world leading inspection, certification, verification and testing company in 2013 as a contractual coordinator. Since then she was first promoted...

Since January 2017 Diana Patricia Ramírez Castro has been serving the multinational medical devices company ConvaTec in the capacity of compliance officer and senior counsel for Latin America. In the...

A subsidiary of Grupo Argos, Colombian company Odinsa invests heavily in the country with a strategy focused on creating value through structuring, promoting, operating, managing, and developing highway and airport...

Eduardo Rosado Fernández de Castro has been vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel at Promigas since 2012 after originally joining the company in 1999 as legal manager. He...

Fabian Moreno Barbosa, has been the assistant general counsel for Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela at Willis Towers Watson since 2014. Before this he was an attorney at the Colombian Insurance...

Having been at the company since 2012, Felipe Marquez Robledo has an advanced understanding of the operations of AngloGold Ashanti, a South African headquartered international gold mining and exploration company...

Fernán Ignacio Bejarano Arias has served as vice president of legal affairs at Ecopetrol, Colombia’s largest company, since 2016 after a long in-house career in the energy and financial sectors...

Grupo Suramericana (Grupo SURA) is a Latin American diversified financial services company listed on the Colombian Stock Exchange and registered with the ADR- Level 1 program in the US. It...

Fernando Victoria Peña is a Colombian lawyer from the Rosario University with specialisations in corporate and commercial law, and a Master’s degree in business and corporate law from the University...

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,...

Gustavo Sáchica joined MetLife Colombia Seguros de Vida (MetLife) in November 2015 and has since led the legal team with his composure, experience and emphasis on legal education. He has...

German healthcare multinational Bayer is able to rely on the expertise of Hector A. Garcia Corredor, its head of legal, data privacy and compliance for the Andean region (Colombia, Ecuador,...

DaVita is an established healthcare multinational that recently established a presence in Colombia. Its youth and incredible growth potential allows its senior leaders to innovate and create new strategies and...

Much more than an in-house counsel, Hernán Darío Mejía Álvarez is a lawyer, professor of competition law at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, and referee of the Chamber of Commerce...

Active in a whole range of sectors, management consulting firm everis is a fast-growing organisation offering business and strategic solutions to companies. In Colombia, the company’s legal function is headed...

Since doing her training at Citibank in Miami, Ingrid Pahl Maya went on to representing the multinational in Central America, before making the move to Itaú Brazil being chosen as...

Jamie Ignacio Escobar Muñoz started his career at prestigious law firms in Colombia, such as Zuleta and Partners Legal Group and Cuberos, Cortes, Gutierrez Lawyers, specialising in a wide area...

Jario Arias joined ISAGEN in 2015 with an extensive background of in-house counsel experience within the energy and construction sectors and brings this strategic legal acumen to the legal department...

Grupo Nutresa is the leading company in processed foods industry in Colombia and one of the most important companies in the sector in Latin America with more than one million...

Since March 2018, Jesús Esteban Revelo Barragán acts as a technical link at the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce for the Hydrocarbons Territorial Strategy, strengthening the management of this initiative...

Joaquín Idoyaga Larrañaga joined SURA Asset Management in 2013 as chief legal, compliance and risk officer in Uruguay after working in independent law firms for seven years. In 2016, he...

Jorge Adrián Rincón Plata started his career after completing a LLM in international business law from Queen Mary University of London, as a lawyer at the Banco de Bogotá, and...

Since its founding in 1948, Caracol Radio has become one of Colombia’s largest and most popular radio networks with a portfolio of leading stations. Jorge Alberto Diaz Gomez joined the...

Jorge M. Meneses is a corporate lawyer with more than 14 years of experience in leading international companies in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region with multidisciplinary knowledge focused...

Since April 2013, José Andrés Rojas has headed the legal and corporate affairs departments at Auteco, bringing his 18 years of experience in corporate law from in-house positions and private...

José Joaquín Diaz Perilla is legal manager at Banco de Bogotá, having been in the position since 1974. He has held several positions at Banco de Bogotá since 1967 and...

DIRECTV Latin America provides best-in-class digital entertainment experiences by delivering high in demand content across the continent. Juan Camilo Castro Salcedo serves the organisation as legal director for the Latin...

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...

Juan Carlos Rivera has served at ISAGEN, a leading sustainable energy production company in Colombia, since 2011, and is responsible for the legal function with a focus on infrastructure and...

Juan Felipe Cruz Ulloa began his career in the cement and construction business at Cemex Colombia, but in 2013 he moved to the fast moving consumer goods industry (FMCG). He...

With extensive experience as a legal manager and representative in the energy industry of Colombia and Peru for over 20 years, Juan Manuel Cuéllar Cabrera expertly manages the legal team...

Having worked in three other multinational Colombian companies in the hospitality, energy and industrials sectors, Juan Pablo Barrera joined Hoteles Decameron in 2014 to build its legal team essentially from...

Responsible for ensuring that ABB’s cluster in Colombia and Ecuador adhere to legal standards and enforcing regulations in all aspects and levels of business as well as providing guidance on...

Since July 2011, and after spending more than five years at Huawei Technologies’ legal department, Juan Pablo Ovalle has been the country counsel for Colombia and the LCR at IBM...

As one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies with recognisable prodcuct brands across the globe, US multinational Mondelēz International employs the most skilled and respected in-house lawyers to...

Laura Vejarano Revollo is the vice president legal and corporate affairs and general counsel at Terranum, a prominent Colombian real estate developer founded in 2009. She specialises in M&A, commercial...

Luis Fernando Diaz, has served as regional counsel at SAP since 2013 having started as a general counsel for Spanish speaking Latin America in 2006 bringing a great wealth of...

A specialist in commercial law, Luis Fernando has grown into his position as chief legal officer and compliance officer at Manuelita Azucar & Energía, a large sugar, bioethanol and seafood...

Since September 2017, Manuela Villa Gonzalez has been the legal manager and compliance officer of Philips Lighting for the Northern Latin American region encompassing Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Central America...

As the legal manager of the oil exploration company, Emerald Energy Colombia, Maria Fernanda De Salvador, along with her team, handles all the exploration and production contracts to ensure that...

J.P. Morgan in Colombia has a local presence through J.P. Morgan Corporación Financiera, a credit institution established in the country since 2006, supervised by the Financial Superintendence of Colombia and...

US multinational petroleum and gas company OXY has significant presence in Colombia, having been an active investor in the country for over 40 years. In charge of legal matters for...

Martin Espinosa was ‘born and raised,’ as he says, at Philip Morris International (PMI) having been with the company for 12 years, occupying different positions, starting as an intern in...

After a short rise to senior positions in the multinational firm PREBEL, and at law firms including Preyra and Bordon covering all elements of commercial, corporate, and legal matters for...

As corporate legal vice-president and general counsel of the billion dollar Colombian bank, Grupo Bancolombia, Mauricio Rosillo Rojas occupies a prominent position in Colombia’s financial sector and in-house legal market....

Colombia’s fourth biggest company, Banco Davivienda, is a powerful commercial banking institution in Colombia and is part of Grupo Empresarial Bolívar, which for more than 70 years has operated across...

Miguel E. Ronderos joined Apple in April 2017 after a glittering career in the technology sector with in-house positions at Spring Mobile Solutions as legal counsel for Spanish speaking Latin...

Yara is a Norwegian headquartered fertiliser, seed and crop nutrition company which produces, sells and manages the supply chain for the industrial farming sector across the world. Mónica Durán is...

Since returning to Colombia in 2012 after a fourteen month spell working for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Natalia Alarcon Bernal has excelled in the financial sector. Now at French...

After gaining over 15 years of experience in M&A, corporate finance, corporate law and private equity at top law firms in Colombia, in 2009 Natalia Camacho joined Altra Investments, a...

Since joining Grupo EMI (now wholly owned by Falck) in 2013, Nicolás Ruiz Moreno has made a significant and positive impact on the global leader in ambulance services’ operations in...

Serving as Colombia’s chief negotiator for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism from 2017 onwards, and as a lawyer within the ministry department since 2004, Nicolas Torres Alvarez is...

Brazilian energy giant Petrobras has been present in Colombia for over 30 years and today conducts offshore exploration activities as well as owning plants for the production of lubricants and...

Pablo Urrego, started his career in private practice before joining Renault Sofasa in 2004 first as a member of the legal team, then progressing to legal manager and to his...

Paola Andrea Valero Carrero continues to impress peers in the capacity of legal director for Latin America at Schnieder Electric. She brings her solid experience in corporate law, contractual law,...

With more than 20 years of experience, and a well-rounded vision, Phyllis Gleiser leads the legal team at Nestlé in Colombia. She has had legal roles within different perspectives at...

Multinational cement and concrete mix maker Cementos Argos is the market leader in Colombia with operations extending to the US, Central America and the Caribbean. In 2017, the company promoted...

Operating passenger and cargo airline services across Latin America, Avianca Holdings has a reputation of first rate customer service as one of the region’s premium flag carriers. Complimenting their position...

In July 2014, Sandra Monroy Suarez began her role as legal and compliance director for the Northern Latin America and Andean clusters at CenturyLink Colombia after developing her career in...

Since joining Corficolombiana in 2011 as a staff attorney, Sharon Diazgranados Peluffo’s quality and efforts as an in-house lawyer have been recognised by senior management at the financial company with...

Coca-cola FEMSA, the world’s largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, has been present in Colombia for over 10 years and today has seven bottling plants and 24 distribution centres in the...

Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican US$14.5bn FMCG company and global leader in the baking industry, reported US$200m sales in Colombia for 2017 through its branch, Bimbo de Colombia. Among its 3,850...

ISA operates across Latin America as a long-term strategic investor in linear infrastructure systems. Not only a major contributor to Colombia’s infrastructure, the company is one of the country largest....

Chief legal officer since 2009, Tatiana Montealegre is the head of the legal function for Parque Arauco in Colombia. The company is a large shopping centre, retail and entertainment company...

Lafrancol, a pharmaceutical company with 100 years of history in Colombia, has been a subsidiary to Abbot Laboratories, a global pharmaceutical production giant, since Abbott purchased Recalcine Pharmaceutical Corporation of...

An in-house lawyer in the financial sector since 1989, Ulises Canosa Suárez is well known in Colombia’s legal market as an expert in the field. And having been at BBVA...

Victor Andrés Gómez Henao is an expert lawyer in insurance law, contract law and civil liability, with extensive knowledge in private law, and has experience in litigation and arbitration. He...

Part of the American Tower Corporation, ATC Colombia provides wireless and broadcast towers among other telecommunication infrastructure that speed network deployment for the wireless and broadcast communications industry. Shortly after...

Virgilio Diaz Mendoza is the regional general counsel of Siemens Mobility in Colombia since August 2018. As such, he is the head of legal for the Mobility organization in Colombia,...

Since 2010, Ximena Herrera has been legal counsel at Vertiv, a global leader in designing, building and servicing critical infrastructure from air-cooling stacks to systems operational support. Her role has...

A major Colombian television production company, Fox Telecolombia has expanded and developed its content in recent years to establish itself as one of the most important producers in Latin America....