Head legal counsel at AviancaTaca since 2012, Desirée Orsini has played a significant role in the growth of the Peruvian airline industry. Formerly chief counsel at Lan Perú for over...

Since beginning her in-house career at the Mexican Securities Industry Association (AMIB), where she worked for six years, the ‘exceptional’ Isabel Ocaña has built an increasingly distinguished career. She spent...

‘Achieving the balance between being a business partner and, concurrently, remaining firm in one’s legal positions is an art and requires great assertiveness and the expertise to reach alternative solutions...

Head of legal at Banco de Crédito del Perú, Guillermo Morales heads a team of 81, some 50 of whom are lawyers. Appointed in January 2010, he has since overhauled...

‘Dynamic and capable’ and with ‘an extensive knowledge of telecommunications’ Daniel Mora worked at Compañia Anonima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV), before moving to Global Crossing (today Level 3 Communications)...

‘If all you do is provide great legal advice, we might as well go to a law firm’. This comment, shared by a top executive in a Johnson Controls’ legal...

With her most recent appointment as legal manager for institutional relations and social responsibility at Claro (Colombia), in November 2013, ‘dynamic attorney’ Sandra Monroy has taken a further step in...

Carlos Alberto Mechetti has been at publicly-traded, multinational retail company Cencosud for almost 20 years and has been the company’s general counsel since 1999. As such he has been the...

‘In today’s world, being a corporate counsel in the Latin American region is an enormous challenge’, observes Esteban Mazzucco, currently legal director for Latin America at specialised agrochemicals company Syngenta,...

Having begun his career in private practice at Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi where he was ‘identified early as a potential star’, Mariano Mazur made the move in-house ‘with great...