About

Impala Terminals is a global logistics provider that focuses on emerging markets and operates as a part of the Trafigura Group, one of the world’s leading trading companies. Mariana Sanchez is instrumental to the successful operation of the Colombian business by overseeing legal processes for the company in the position of legal director. Over the past few years at the company, Sanchez has gained an outstanding reputation internally both for the quality of her legal work and ability to successfully organise an efficient legal function. She has established herself as an excellent lawyer, with an innate ability to polish all legal processes within the function to perfection, whilst managing the relationships with contractors and external law firms. Prior to joining Impala Terminals in January 2013, Sanchez’s career focused on natural resources. Between 2008 and 2013 she worked as a private practice lawyer at law firms Norton Rose Fulbright, Lewin & Wills Attorneys at Law and Posse Herrera & Ruiz Abogados. At the onset of her career she spent seven years at Petrocolombia.