About

SKBergé is a Spanish-Chilean company which operates throughout Latin America, representing a number of the world’s leading vehicle brands. Piero Mainetto Villacorta is an indispensable part of the company’s Peruvian operation as a legal and corporate affairs manager, providing support that enables the subsidiary to enjoy 18% of the market share and an annual billing figure of $600m. Joining the company in 2014, Mainetto was charged with creating an internal legal department from scratch, and of his involvement he states: ‘The main change brought forth as a result of my addition to the team is to involve the legal component as part of the day to day business rather than a separate department that is only consulted post decision-making’. In doing so, he has managed to receive buy-in from all internal departments as well as the support and confidence of SKBergé’s business partners. More successes Mainetto has achieved are connected with the company’s strategic aims; one such instance was the transition of Peugeot’s operation in Peru from its previous distributor to SKBergé, as well as the financial and legal plan of debt recovery worth $7m for dealerships with financial issues. An important part of the SKBergé business surrounds the logistics process for its vehicles, and Mainetto – along with the support of his team – was central to the foundation of Servicios Logísticos Automotrices, a joint venture between SKBergé and logistics company Romero Group. This new company provides logistic services focused in automotive industries to support SKBergé’s demand and any other potential automotive groups, and Mainetto was key in the negotiations surrounding a variety of issues concerning the agreement. The result was the guarantee of an ‘orderly operation regardless of the existence of any standing legal disputes’ and evincing the quality of Mainetto’s work and the team he has assembled, in the process the team ‘did not require the support of external legal counsel’.