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Argentina 2017

Francisco Romano

Managing counsel – Latin America business unit | Chevron Global

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Francisco Romano

Managing counsel – Latin America business unit | Chevron Global

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Francisco Romano has comprehensive experience that he brings to a wide-reaching role as managing counsel for Chevron’s Latin America business unit. Building on time spent in various companies within the energy sector, Romano is a highly specialised lawyer who is the first non-American to achieve the position of managing counsel within Chevron Latin America. Romano assumed the position with a well-rounded academic background in addition to being ‘a Spanish speaking civil law lawyer with a lot of experience in common law jurisdictions and knowledge of the oil and gas business in Latin America’. With 12 lawyers and six non-legal staff reporting into him, Romano places great importance on satisfying stakeholders in the relevant jurisdictions and relies on his ‘disperse group of lawyers with very diverse skillsets and experience’ to help him achieve this goal. Enjoying a close relationship with senior leadership in the company, Romano is a close confidant for the business, in particular the CEO with whom he shares a direct report and works with ‘together… to always reach alignment on the best way to go’. Having been involved in an ‘unconventional oil and gas transaction’ with TPF, Romano explains that the most important aspects of the in-house role is adding value to business and taking steps to ascertain the importance of legal to the business function.

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