Team size: Three

Focus on: My career

Bio

Lawyer from the University of San Martin de Porres, Perú, Ana has a master’s degree in finance and corporate law at the ESAN University of the same country. She has more than 15 years of experience in the financial industry.

Since 2014, She has been part of SURA Perú, where she was part of the investments legal team in Intrega AFP from 2014 until 2018. In 2019, she became part of the Latin America platform of SURA Investments Management, serving as a legal associate and then senior associate, legal, in Perú.

What are the most significant private equity deals that you or your team have recently been involved in within the Latin American market?

The most recent and significant matter in which my team has been involved in is the structuring of the first mutual fund of the global private debt fund of funds, allowing our clients to have access and global exposure to open capital funds that have underlying assets in this type of alternative instruments.

Latin American markets vary widely in terms of economic stability and political dynamics. How do you factor these considerations into your legal strategies and recommendations for private equity clients?

Latin America during these years has not had an economic and political stability that allows clients to bet on investing in here, therefore, within our strategy is to evaluate the structure of the global private equity or private debt instruments in which our vehicle will invest, as well as our retail clients will invest in vehicles that are more profitable and with tax benefits.

What do you find most rewarding and challenging about working as an in-house lawyer specialising in private equity within the Latin American market?

The most challenging thing about being an in-house lawyer is seeing the viability and structuring products that are attractive to our clients, both for the profitability that could be obtained, for the tax benefits that can be given in the structure and the exposure to assets such as that of private equity and private debt. The most rewarding thing is to be part of the team that brings innovative products to Peru, which allows the Peruvian market to grow.