About

Formerly a private practice lawyer at law firm Gonzalez & Uribe, Gabriela Bogantes is now a widely recognised figure in the Costa Rican in-house market. Bogantes, currently Pfizer’s Central American and Caribbean legal director, is the primary legal contact at for the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare business, as well as a primary lawyer for the Oncology business unit in wider Latin America. In this wide-reaching role, she manages a complex region of countries (33 markets) and has showcased a highly impressive ability to support the company with minimal legal contingencies, despite the wide variety of legislations and environments. In addition, Bogantes is known for her active participation with all business units for the successful deployment of a company reorganisation, business development initiatives and a rationalisation of distribution relationships across the region. These actions have had a huge impact on the reduction of risk in several actions taken by Pfizer. Bogantes has also made several improvements to the legal department, including changing the invoice scheme for external counsel and maximising the department’s budget.