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Legal affairs manager Karen Ames Vasquez has led a number of extremely important transactions during her time as legal affairs manager of asset management firm Sigma Safi. These range from her leadership on the development of the Fondo de Infraestructura investments in wind power plants, electrical transmission lines and highways for over $200m to the launch of the Fondo de Leasing Operativo LVI for $100m and the structuring of contracts for operative leases in the urban transport sector for over $25m. In addition to these business-boosting contributions on behalf Sigma Safi, Ames has made changes that have built and consolidated company’s in-house legal function. This has included changing the nature of legal support to the company from a strictly outsourcing model to what she states are ‘specialised lawyers in regulatory, contractual and financial topics’ which had the result of making the firm ‘exempt from depending on external law firms’. This had the effect of ‘efficient and effective management of a large portfolio of clients, while providing equilibrium with the consulting of external law firms’. Before joining Sigma Safi, first as a contracts lawyer, Ames worked for RIMAC Seguros providing assistance and advisory in the legal matters related to compliance of regulations on the corporate and insurance structures.