Part of the global investment management businesses of US Fortune Global 500 company Prudential Financial, PGIM Real Estate has been redefining the real estate investing landscape since 1970. The company has been investing in Mexico since 2002 managing funds that specialise in industrial, residential and retail properties.

Described as ‘an absolute pragmatic counsel’, Amanda González is vice president, corporate counsel for PGIM Real Estate’s Mexico operations. She had only been at the company for just over one year as legal director before being promoted to her current position in March 2017. By May of that year, she had assisted on all contracts related to the raising of Mex$4.4bn by the company for PruMex IV CKD, a closed-end real estate fund investing across various property sectors in Mexico.

Having worked in-house in Mexico’s real estate sector since 2006, González is credited by one nominator for ‘getting the legal issues and reaching conclusions that benefits the business’. Prior to PGIM Real Estate, she worked in the legal department of GE Capital Real Estate in Mexico. González has a Master’s degree in law from New York University and completed her undergraduate degree at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in 2007.