About

Tatiana Montealegre has a uniquely complimentary assortment of public and private sector experience. Her seven years spent as an independent lawyer, advising financial institutions on corporate restructuring, coupled with her three years working within public financial institutions have helped her thrive in her current role as legal manager at Parque Arauco’s Colombian presence, Colombian Arauco Investments (CAI). Montealegre typically supports the structuring and development of new projects, and oversees the clauses which are included in CAI’s shareholder agreement. She takes special pride in CAI’s legal department, the establishment of which coincided with her 2009 appointment at the company. ‘In 2009 when I joined the company, the legal department was created in Colombia. I organised support for all areas of the Colombian division, including real estate, engineering, sales, marketing and human resources’. She describes closing negotiations with the Antioqueño Group as the biggest career challenge she has faced to date, for the numerous and nuanced unforeseen difficulties it presented herself and her team. However, she is grateful for the experience because it has imbued her with greater confidence to execute similar negotiations with great effect. Consequently, Montealegre is able to comfortably incorporate and juggle a wide array of responsibilities into her legal function. These now include supporting project structuring, property acquisition, instructing construction companies and other specialties for the construction of shopping malls, processing and obtaining licenses for the development of the constructed malls, and eventually negotiating contracts with merchants for commercial leasing of premises in Parque Arauco’s commercial properties.