About

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 in different jurisdictions, and particularly in commercial negotiations, licensing, information privacy and security, and compliance. With nine years of experience leading multi-country legal, privacy and compliance support at technology giants such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle, Jaramillo has achieved great success in diverse and complex legal environments while helping the business comply with equally complex internal policy structures. Over the course of his career, Jaramillo has played a key role in complex negotiations for contracts with the main regional players in the banking, telecommunications, and retail industries. Jaramillo’s current role is associate general counsel for global diversified industrial manufacturing company Ingersoll Rand, and specifically its real estate development business Trane de Colombia, providing broad legal support to the company’s operations throughout South America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. The role is one that allows him to capitalise on previous experiences by becoming a key component in the selling process of a wide portfolio of products and services. Jaramillo says that, ‘this professional stage has allowed me to bring into practice all previous learning experiences, since I act as legal leader for all of Ingersoll Rand’s lines of business (Thermo king, Trane, Compression Technologies, Club Car), in several Latin American countries. This experience has showed me the importance of a solid legal and professional background comes first for an in-house lawyer when providing support to multinational companies, regardless of the industry, which particularities you can learn and perfect on the way’. With limited personnel resources to support the region, data recollection and analysis are becoming crucial in identifying where and how the legal support must be focused. He worked on the design and implementation of legal support data tools and “80/20 analysis” and has been responsible for the legal implementation and development of the Ingersoll Rand commercial and logistics hub for Latin America, based in Panama. This structure is expected to channel most of the firm’s Latin America business within the next few years. This has demanded Jaramillo involvement on multimillion investments with careful planning from logistics, financial, legal and tax perspectives.