About

A constituent of the IPSA index of the largest Chilean businesses, Falabella ranks as the largest retail company in the country and one of the largest in Latin America. Headed by a former Walmart veteran Gonzalo Smith, the company’s sizeable legal department provides support to Falabella’s flagship 259 department stores and 27 shopping malls centres both in Chile and overseas. Defined by its highly experienced leader, the team’s scope has grown dramatically in the last two years to include strategic advice to senior management, alongside its already sizeable portfolio of more “traditional” responsibilities in resolving all legal and compliance issues encountered by the company’s large-scale operations. The team features a number of prominent professionals; chief legal and governance officer Gonzalo Smith, who has over 20 years of experience in the legal sphere has received wide praise for supporting impressive projects, implementing complex legal systems and creating transformative initiatives to redesign organisational processes. Legal manager Maria Rosa Lagos Mukarker is known for her superior expertise in corporate finance and banking law, whilst the recently appointed lawyer Gonzalo Tapia has already impressed peers with his expertise in dealing with commercial, labour and civil matters.