Executive Legal Director | Banco Santander Mexico
Juan Eduardo Llanos
Executive Legal Director | Banco Santander Mexico
team size
20
What are the most significant cases, projects, or transactions that you and your legal team have recently been involved in?
Financing granted to an SPV, dated 1 December 2025, arranged by the development banking sector (Banca de Desarrollo) in coordination with the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), in order to provide PEMEX with a mechanism for the management and administration of related payments, exclusively for investment projects.
How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crisis to ensure the organisation’s resilience?
By maintaining constant communication with my team.
We are currently living through a time of geopolitical change, and the world order that we have come to take for granted for many years is being rewritten. Does this affect your company’s risk profile and, if so, what are you doing to mitigate this?
Indeed, geopolitical changes and shifts in the world order affect the bank’s risk profile. We therefore aim to maintain our core values at all times and continue providing optimal legal services to our clients.
What do you think are the most important attributes for a modern in-house counsel to possess?
A modern in-house counsel cannot take the bank’s past success for granted. We also strive to remain up to date at all times, both in terms of legislation and technology.
What is a cause, business or otherwise, that you are passionate about? Why is this?
I am passionate about environmental sustainability because it means a better world for future generations.
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