Having been the general counsel for 17 years at GasValpo, the Chilean distributor of natural gas, María Paz Alvear has an almost unparalleled understanding of the company’s operations and legal...

Teck Chile is developing a major project in Chile, the Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) project which is one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper resources. The Canadian diversified resources...

A highly proficient and astute lawyer, Javiera Alarcón López has been developing her skills in-house for over eight years. It began in March 2011, when she was being employed as...

Michael Zuckert joined Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in 2014 as general counsel after stints at Citibank, Morgan Stanley, The Street, and in private practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Highlights...

After making partner at Kirkland, Jordan Zamir was recruited to join Jones Day’s Palo Alto office to help grow their technology corporate practice. In addition to M&A he also spent...

‘Every day, Peter Wexler deals with a different problem on a different continent as chief legal and compliance officer of Schneider Electric, a Fortune 500 global energy management company with...

Robert Scott Weber, vice president and general counsel at Lumina Networks, started his career as a litigator in private practice and made the move in-house over 20 years ago. He...

‘Robert Waterman, senior vice president and general counsel of HCA since 1997, is a legal pioneer in the healthcare industry. Waterman oversees the 116-lawyer legal department at Nashville-based HCA Healthcare,...

Beginning her career – slightly unusually – in an in-house role rather than with a law firm after completing her legal education, Wanji Walcott made a fantastic impression at Lockheed...

After a strong private practice career, and proving that he could successfully organise and grow project finance departments at three different law firms, in April 2008, Robert L. Vitale left...