About

Juan Luis Rodríguez Rivero has an almost unparalleled knowledge of the IT market in Latin America and Accenture’s method of business, having been engaged as an in-house lawyer with them since 2004, prior to which he was a corporate lawyer for Kuri Breña Sánchez Ugarte, Corcuera y Aznar. He was the first in-house counsel in Mexico for the company, and was legal director for the country for many years. In 2013 he was appointed as director of legal services for Hispanic Latin America, and since then he advises that he has ‘been involved in cutting edge technology transactions with large clients all throughout the region’. He can take immense credit for constructing a first-class legal function at the company, with the team now numbering 13 attorneys in the region who have a ‘collaborative culture along with a spirit of putting the company and team before the individual’. A forward-thinking lawyer with a deep interest in new techniques that can improve his department, Rodríguez lists being afforded the ability to innovate as being among his personal career highlights: ‘Having the opportunity as an attorney to shape and influence the market by bringing the most advanced technology, cutting-edge methodologies, know-how and best practices to the clients in our region has been a great highlight’. He also lists the ability ‘to interact with multi-cultural, multi country clients’ through Accenture as another positive feature of his career thus far, and mentions that this has made him ‘understand and attend to the specific needs of not only the client, but negotiators from many nationalities, desires and cultures’. The team has undergone a significant restructuring in recent years which it has handled extremely effectively, as Rodríguez explains: ‘The Accenture legal team experienced a full transformation a few years back whereby a team was created to take care of compliance, regulatory and HR matters, another for client relationships and client contract negotiations, and a legal shared services centre was created in Argentina which now holds more than 200 lawyers who give legal support worldwide. Accenture’s global legal leadership commended us for a great implementation of the model, and held the team up as an exemplar of how things should work within the global legal team’.