Career Biography

Montserrat Mulato is a corporate lawyer with 14 years of experience across the services and consumer products industries, specialising in regulatory affairs for the cosmetics and chemical sectors. She currently serves as General Counsel and Head of Labour Relations at Coty, where she oversees contracts, data privacy, compliance, labour relations and commercial operations across Mexico and Latin America.

What distinguishes her practice is her financial and commercial mindset. Montserrat sees the legal function not as a gatekeeper, but as a strategic partner. She works side by side with business teams to understand their objectives, identify and optimise risk, and design structures in which that risk is intelligently shared between the company and its partners. Her goal is always the same: to enable growth, protect the business and translate complex regulation into clear, actionable decisions.

Throughout her career, she has played a central role in some of the most significant transformations in the region’s consumer goods landscape. At Avon, she was part of the team that launched the company’s e-commerce operation, building the legal and regulatory framework that enabled a traditional direct-selling model to reach consumers through digital channels. She subsequently helped lead the legal side of the acquisition transition at Natura, guiding the integration of processes, contracts and compliance during one of the most significant deals in the beauty industry.

Her experience extends beyond beauty. At Jumex, she supported the restructuring of the company’s manufacturing plants, balancing operational, labour and regulatory considerations in a highly complex environment. At Ecolab, she drove greater process efficiency, helped reduce the company’s litigation exposure and identified tax benefits, bringing her regulatory expertise in the chemical sector to support strategic business decisions.

A consistent theme throughout her career has been digital transformation. Montserrat has led the digitalisation of legal and commercial processes at several companies, convinced that technology is essential to making legal teams faster, more accessible and more valuable to the business. At Coty, she has optimised the legal function to the point where 100% of its processes are now digital. She has also championed the adoption of artificial intelligence and digital tools, including the development of an internal AI-powered legal assistant that provides teams with immediate guidance on contracts, suppliers and regulatory compliance. In addition, she has led complex multi-jurisdictional projects, such as a data privacy framework spanning nine Latin American countries.

Montserrat is currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Law (Maestría en Derecho de la Empresa) at Universidad Panamericana, reflecting her ongoing commitment to deepening her understanding of the intersection between law, finance and business strategy.
Known as a pragmatic, solutions-oriented leader who values integrity and transparency, Montserrat believes that the best legal advice is that which helps the business move forward with confidence. After 14 years, her focus remains the same: building legal functions that are strategic, digital and deeply connected to the business.