About

During an in-house career of over 20 years, Pablo Reynoso Mendoza has worked for a number of major companies including Altria, Kraft and Philip Morris. He is currently general counsel for Latin America at Kellogg’s, where he has overseen the institutionalization of the company’s legal department in Mexico (overhauling all its processes and procedures and introducing new systems of revision and electronic authorization); established the firm’s Brazilian legal department from the ground up; and regionalized the company’s internal legal capacity through the creation of a legal hub with specialization in four primary sectors: labour, litigation, commercial (trade marks, food law, and advertising) and transactional matters (corporate, contracts and taxes). He has also developed the company’s regional network of external counsel, which today covers more than 30 jurisdictions, and instituted an annual summit of associated partners. At present he manages a 15-strong team (11 lawyers and four administrators) divided between Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil (‘I believe in each and every one of them and in all of them as a team’); insiders note that the team has ‘created robust bridges over the cultural and legal differences of the diverse jurisdictions in which it operates’ and that its work is ‘an example to follow on how to handle complex cross-border legal issues in an efficient and timely manner’. Reynoso regards ‘ensuring legal service provision of homogenous high-quality at a regional level and with the ability to advise on matters in countries with emerging economies such as a Brazil, Mexico or Colombia, more complicated countries such as Venezuela, Argentina and some of the Caribbean islands, and “low-income countries” such as Honduras, Nicaragua or El Salvador’, as ‘the most interesting and stimulating challenge I’ve faced’, and emphasizes the importance of knowing different cultures and understanding the idiosyncrasies of peoples and places, which, in turn, ‘permits us to grasp the complexities, risks and opportunities of each country far better’. With ‘an outstandingly solid background in diverse areas of law including contracts, civil, administrative, dispute resolution as well as corporate affairs and government relations management’, Reynoso is ‘a model of adherence to the highest ethical principles, portraying utmost integrity in every activity he engages in’. ‘An extremely pro-active and very hands-on professional’, his track record of driving ‘high-impact operations’ for various international companies, while concurrently ‘building and leading highly efficient legal organizations, and successfully developing the professional careers of his teammates’, stretches back more than 15 years.