About

As regional legal director at AbbVie, Soledad Oubiña provides the company with excellent leadership and consistent safeguarding against the diverse issues it faces in the country. AbbVie is a US publicly traded biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013, originated as a spin-off of Abbott Laboratories. Today, its 30,000 employees around the world focus on delivering transformational medicines and therapies that offer significant patient benefits. Oubiña joined AbbVie in December 2018, having previously obtained vast experience in both the in-house and private practice industries. According to one nominator, she is an ‘effective team leader, [who] helps members understand their goals and helps organise an action plan to ensure their goals and objectives are achieved efficiently in a very challenging and complex industry’. Before commencing her role at AbbVie, Oubiña worked for two years at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as a legal manager covering the Southern Cone region. Prior to GSK, she spent 17 years working for Argentine law firm Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal, providing legal advice to companies regarding daily corporate matters. During her final year at the firm, she was specially assigned to work at the Dow Chemical Company, marking the beginning of her in-house career.