Amat victoria curam (“victory loves preparation”) could be Francisco Hernández’ motto, according to external counsel who’ve worked alongside him. Recently appointed general counsel for growth markets at Tyco International, he...

‘Intelligent and a great team player’, Carlos Henao is general counsel of Grupo Éxito, Colombia’s largest retail group. Also responsible for corporate matters, since his arrival he has overhauled the...

General counsel of the Latin American operations of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), the Macquarie Group’s alternative asset management business, David Handelsmann is ‘a dealmaker in every sense of...

Chief legal counsel for Latin America at global market analysis behemoth, The Nielsen Company, Denise Guillén’s responsibilities cover 18 countries. Since her arrival at the company three years ago, she...

Based in Brazil, Osvaldo Grossi is Latin American regional general counsel for HSBC Bank. He manages a sizeable team of over 300, including 186 lawyers, spread across Argentina, Brazil, Chile,...

Chief legal officer at multi-business company Ultrapar Participações, since 2008, Sandra López Gorbe has built a reputation for being ‘a leader in best practices in the corporate governance and compliance...

Formerly in the public sector, first as general counsel of government investment bank COFIDE and then as legal superintendent at Peru’s banking regulatory body, the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and Pension Funds (SBS),...

Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Carlos González is vice president and chief M&A counsel for Prudential Insurance. With an impressive private practice career, first at White & Case,...

Adecoagro’s chief legal officer for Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, Emilio Gnecco has been a member of the company’s senior management since 2005. Formerly in private practice at The Legal 500...

Legal director for the southern cone (& ‘LatAm Pacific’) at GlaxoSmithKline since 2005, Fernando Gestal has a small team in which he has sought to inculcate a culture of risk...