Colombia Teams 2017
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Abbott
Senior vice president and general counsel | Misumi USA
Senior vice president and general counsel | Misumi USA
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Senior vice president corporate and legal | Woodside
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| Abbott Laboratories
The Abbott Laboratories legal team in Peru is thoroughly involved in the organisation’s aims to deliver innovative solutions in the domain of advancing global health. It has been tasked with...
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Abbott, a global medical and nutritional products manufacturer, has been operating in Mexico since 1934. It manufactures Ensure, Glucerna, Similac, Pedialyte and PediaSure, and its bioresorbable vascular framework. The strong...
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The last couple of years have been transformative for Abbott Laboratories’ 13-person Russian legal unit, as the department had to alter the ways in which it supports internal clients, moving...
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Expertly covering the Andean region, Abbott’s in-house legal team based in Colombia continues to impress after its leader’s previous inclusion in the GC Powerlist: Colombia 2018. With the largest market...
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Pharmaceutical multinational Abott’s Argentine legal function is tasked with providing overall legal support and maintaining the company’s regulatory and legislative strategy across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Besides demonstrating unrivalled expertise...
Abbott expanded its operation in Latin America in 2014 with significant acquisitions of Chile’s CFR Pharmaceuticals and two Colombian companies, Synthesis and Lafrancol, with the latter owning brands such as Eroxim, Sevedol, Soy Plus, Sonax and Finigax. Since then Abbott’s legal department in Colombia has expanded dramatically, with highly experienced lawyer Monica Cuesta moving there to direct legal affairs across Latin America and Canada. Apart from growing in size, over the years the team has undergone significant changes in structure, taking steps to add value while improving the quality of work it does with the business. ‘What we have been doing for a while now has been getting involved directly in the business committees on a regional and country level, which has enabled us to understand the strategy of the business. Our recent focus has mainly been to be part of the organisation and the teams to achieve goals, doing the correct thing from the legal perspective’, says Cuesta. Over the past three years, the team has also made an immense contribution to the company on a regional level by seamlessly supporting the integration of the newly acquired entities into the company.
