About

Cristina Lloreda is the commercially savvy general counsel of holding company Sanford Management, where she handles the legal needs of a 15-company portfolio. Since her 2013 appointment, Lloreda has been responsible for building and managing an internal legal department with significant commercial exposure. Having begun her career at Colombian law firm Brigard & Urrutia, and subsequently working at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, Lloreda has developed a skill for advising on complex commercial practices. Her first transition to in-house counsel came in 2009, at Citibank (Colombia), where she joined as a senior attorney and rapidly became identified as ‘high potential’ within the company; a title given to just 11 other staff members drawn from a pool of 3,000. As part of Citibank’s investment banking team in Bogotá, Lloreda was integral in bringing the first exchange traded fund (ETF) to the Colombia’s financial market, a significant milestone for the local stock exchange, and one built upon two years of close collaboration with Colombian regulators. Admirers speak highly of her quality: ‘She has a strong temperament, is studious and well-prepared, and expects the same from her external counsel. Fundamentally she’s a “doer” because she delivers’, one nominating lawyer said. Finally, according to a former private practice colleague, ‘she’s extremely capable, a real lawyer’s lawyer, and it’s no wonder her responsibilities today reach beyond the juridical and into strategic matters’.