About

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 to senior counsel in 2014 and then, in 2017, to a regional position as senior legal counsel for Central America and the Caribbean. Since then she has led its young legal team focusing on providing accurate, business-minded, and comprehensive legal coverage for SGS and its clients. Also during her tenure, the team has been involved in the full acquisition of the most well-known construction materials lab in Colombia and Panama, the settlement of an arbitral lawsuit with an important company from the crude oil sector, preventing any reputational and or economical risk for SGS and the recovery of the escrow fund agreed during the acquisition by the SGS Group of Colombia’s most important consultancy firm. Her background in law and finance, combined, with her ability to take prudent, informed and timely decisions in difficult moments have allowed her to create a successful legal team at SGS. About her team Daza says that she, ‘constructed a solid work team that [despite] their youth and different career paths provide strong legal advice and real solutions. The legal department is highly [praised] among the company as one of the most efficient function areas’.