About

A highly-skilled financial in-house lawyer, Ana Maria Bonilla has spent her entire legal career in the banking sector. With deep experience in Latin American legal frameworks in Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile and New York, Bonilla currently heads the legal department at Banco General, the largest bank in Panama City, with a total workforce of more than 3,400 trained employees. Over the past three years spent at the bank, Bonilla has established herself as a legal professional proficient at negotiating legal documentation for bilateral and syndicated transactions, including multi-regional deals, trade finance, vendor finance and project finance and has demonstrated an impeccable track record of being able to negotiate from both a commercial and legal perspective. Prior to joining Banco General in 2013, Bonilla spent seven years as a senior legal counsel at the Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America and before that nearly six years as a legal counsel responsible for corporate banking, financial institutions and private banking at BNP Paribas.