About

Ligia González Lozano, corporate legal director and general counsel, leads the Grupo ADO legal team, one of the main Mexican bus companies. Gonzalez started at ADO in 2005 as legal coordinator and worked her way up in the ranks as an excellent leader of legal business proceedings. The legal department’s level of competency is demonstrated through their direct participation in the strategy, execution and negotiation in a period which has seen the accelerated growth and international expansion of ADO. The team are encouraged to act as business lawyers ‘helping the business within the boundaries of the law and ethics but also with creativity’, says Gonzalez. Under Gonzalez’s management, the team have created divided areas to ensure specialist knowledge is available on operations and litigation, as well as for consulting and legal maintenance. The company has a multiplatform of services – it runs Autotour, a charter bus service, and Multipack, a package express service. The legal team represents these various departments, providing advice on intellectual property, M&A and due diligence to name a few.