About

Cesar Jose Canorio Vicuña has a number of career highlights to look back on over the course of more than two decades in the legal profession. A highly-educated individual who has received honours from Yale School of Management, the prestigious ESAN graduate school of business as well the Lima University; Canorio began his professional legal career in the construction sector for two years with an important Peruvian construction group. He then spent two years in private practice in Lima before joining Grupo Mota-Engil company Mota-Engil Perú in late 1999. He details some of his favourite moments with the company since then: ‘Among my favourite highlights have been the negotiation of construction contracts with large mining clients and concessionaires of public infrastructure, the constant interrelationship with engineers and professionals of other skilled careers within the company, and the fact that I have been a participant in a large multidisciplinary team’. All these experiences, he says, ‘help me to constantly rethink ways of serving the company, and innovate as an in-house lawyer should’. Canorio has indeed made a number of important improvements to the legal function of the company over the course of his tenure. On this subject, he says: ‘The first change was to liberate the company from the dependence on a single external study, and to make viable the possibility of resorting as necessary to various first-level external consultants. The second was to achieve an efficient use of resources, enhancing the return of the company’s investment in its internal legal area, always working with a compact, productive and multi-area structure. Finally, the daily challenge is to make those who make up the company change their perception of the function of an internal legal area, ensuring they understand that preventing legal issues is always much better and less expensive than a corrective intervention after occurrence’. Given Canorio’s experience, qualifications and proven track record of success, Mota-Engil Perú can count on a highly effective, organised and capable in-house legal function to support of its objectives.