About

The current general counsel of Banco de Crédito del Perú, the largest bank in the country, Guillermo J. Morales-Valentín has had a highly successful career to reflect on. A financial services legal specialist, Morales-Valentín was general counsel of Banco Santander Central Hispano Perú and Grupo Santander Perú between 2000 and 2007, accruing an enviable level of experience in the sector during the process. In 2007, he moved to Banco de Crédito del Perú, where he was first employed as head of the legal department before assuming his current role in 2010. The steady expansion of his responsibilities continues to this day; he has recently been appointed as general counsel of Credicorp, the holding company of Banco de Crédito del Perú, while retaining his current role. Morales-Valentín lists a number of highlights when discussing his career: ‘Firstly, my involvement in many M&A and financing transactions made by Credicorp around the region in the last ten years; secondly, my role as general counsel of the many companies held by Credicorp in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Panama; and finally my prior position as general counsel in Banco Santander Perú and Grupo Santander Perú, which gave me the experience to deal with an international group’.