A heavily team-oriented legal professional, Alejandro Fraga Land makes it clear that his career successes were part of a collaborative effort that could not have been possible without the support of the other high-quality lawyers that he has been able to work with. Fraga speaks of a highly varied set of accomplishments over the past few years of his career: ‘In the last ten years I have successfully participated in the defence of competition cases, been part of M&A teams to incorporate new territories to our region and participated in various diversity committees.

This has increased my business acumen while simultaneously allowing me to acknowledge the paramount importance of compliance and the significant contribution that a diversified team can bring to a company. It has allowed me to better understand and represent the company’s, internal clients’ and end users’ interests’. Fraga waxes lyrical about the abilities of his team, both individually and collectively, to contribute real and measurable value to Praxair. ‘Our in-house group is an industry expert, and all company lawyers have broad company business acumen while also having specific areas of expertise’, he explains. ‘This enables the organisation to seek general and specific counsel in-house, and has reduced the use of external counsel which has had a significant impact on legal expenses’.

Fraga mentions his and his team’s successful defence of competition cases, large collection litigations, successful IP litigation, M&As and the integration and implementation of compliance programs into new territories in the region as part of their greatest accomplishments in recent years, and evidence of their professionalism and commitment to the company’s cause. ‘Our legal department is a strong contributor to the results of the company’, Fraga concludes. ‘While representing and defending the interest of the company we thrive on identifying opportunities by which we can contribute to the business and improve client relationships’.