Formerly at Coca-Cola FEMSA, where he was general counsel with responsibility for South American corporate affairs, AngloGold Ashanti’s Felipe Márquez, vice president for corporate affairs & general counsel for Colombia,...

‘A great all round lawyer, practical, careful and engaged with the issues’, Pedro Mariani is general counsel for Brazil’s leading drinks company, Ambev, a global player that is regarded as...

‘A young lawyer, very intelligent and who always has vision’, Renato Maia Lopes joined Votorantim Metais as legal manager back in 1999. In 2008 he was promoted to general legal...

A standout figure among the younger generation of Latin American in-house counsel, Marcos de Campos Ludwig, general counsel at Brazilian iron-ore company Manabi, has overseen the company’s growth from a...

Formerly in-house in the energy sector and with in-house experience at The Legal 500 recommended Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, Silvia Maria Ribeiro Lopes is general counsel...

Cristina Lloreda became vice president for legal affairs at holding company Sanford Management, where she handles the legal requirements of a portfolio of 15 companies, in May 2013. Having begun...

With extensive experience in private practice at a number of Argentine firms between 1996 and 2003, Carlos Lanardonne moved in-house at Empresa Nobleza-Piccardo as senior head of legal affairs for...

Rocio La Torre spent almost eight years in private practice at recognised energy-sector heavyweight, Estudio Muñiz, Ramírez, Perez-Taiman & Olaya Abogados, before moving in-house at Peru LNG in 2005. Moving...

Another of the younger figures on this list, the ‘stupendous’ Mauricio Ibáñez Campos, only took the ‘super high-profile position, both locally and internationally’ of general counsel at Grupo México in...

A former chair of the Inter-American Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar and member of its executive committee, Joe Hill has had an impressive trajectory: having served as...