About

With an extensive portfolio due to the numerous board of director and general counsel roles he’s taken on during his career, Guillermo Cabieses is an experienced lawyer and scholar versed in legal and economic theory. Legal roles aside, he has concurrently served as a professor of law and economics, teaching topics related to contracts, legal theory, antitrust and M&A amongst others. Cabieses has only been the principle and general counsel at Nexus for four months, but in that short time, has had the chance to participate in two very important acquisitions, one in the pharmaceutical industry and the other in the industrial sector. He also has been able to establish in this short period several criteria to allow the attorneys of the portfolio companies to manage legal risks without depending exclusively on the CEO’s of each company. Another notable role he has was at Credicorp Capital, the investment bank platform of Credicorp, with operations in Peru, Chile, Colombia, Panama, the UK and the US, where he was offered the corporate general counsel and board secretary role. Assuming this position at the age of 32 made him the youngest member of the senior management team, an achievement he is thoroughly proud of considering the success to follow. Cabieses built a team to oversee of all legal affairs of the 25 companies and hundreds of funds Credicorp Capital managed. During this time he also was a member of the management committee, the compliance committee, the ethics committee and the risk committee. After over four years in Credicorp Capital he was offered a senior position at Nexus Group, the biggest private equity fund in Peru, with approximately $1bn of capital commitments. ‘I had a hard time deciding whether I should leave Credicorp after nearly ten years, but the offer was very appealing as it comprised a joint appointment, as a business executive principal and general counsel, in the most successful private equity fund in Peru so I could further my corporate experience by handling businesses directly’, Cabieses says. His time at Credicorp was marked by a number of highlights, particularly his key contribution to the structuring and fund raising of a private investment infrastructure fund in Colombia of approximately $500m, the biggest fund for infrastructure investment in the history of Colombia. Cabieses also had a stint at Pacifico Seguros, where he led the negotiation team in the acquisition of five hospitals, two labs, one dental care network and four other health related businesses over a period of 18 months.