About

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 conglomerate, since 2012. He is in charge of legal advisory, strategy and compliance and has significant business and legal knowledge. Rueda has been crucial to earning clients’ trust and generating “legal culture” in corporate activities. He says that his approach to management is to ‘empower the attorneys in his team to earn trust in the business environment, work well as a team, and think about sustainability in decisions that affect the corporate business in a positive way’. His team has handled all of the commercial matters efficiently and have strongly argued a defence to an antitrust investigation conducted by the administrative authority against the company.