About

Alejandra Acosta Hernandez has over 10 years’ experience of working in-house including at multinationals such as Schneider Electric, Millicom, Codere and, since 2016, Praxair Colombia. He is an expert in large M&A transactions, compliance, litigation and IP issues having worked for large companies in different sectors from power and energy, entertainment, telecommunications and technology to chemicals and the energy industries. Acosta has strong communication and negotiation skills which help him lead a team to support and provide guidance to executives and managers at all levels on all legal, corporate, commercial, regulatory, government affairs, compliance and strategic management matters relating to the operations in Colombia. Specifically, he provides strategic legal advice with regard to corporate, commercial, logistics and transportation, dealer operations, labour and employment, health care, litigation, contracts and general compliance matters. He is also a member of Praxair’s board of directors for the three companies in Colombia, compliance officer, executive representative in the Industrial Gases Chamber at the National Business Association (ANDI) and Praxair’s general attorney and legal representative. Asked about his most important recent success, Acosta replied that, he ‘has participated in a couple of prominent M&A transactions in Colombia. Firstly, the merger between Tigo and Une, two of the leading telecommunications companies in Colombia, and secondly the merger between Schneider Electric, Alstom Power and Areva T&D, and its implementation in Colombia as the largest power companies worldwide. Currently, I am participating in and leading the merger of Praxair and Linde in Colombia, the largest merger in the industrial gas sector both worldwide and in Colombia’. His work at Praxair demonstrates his outstanding leadership and negotiation skills making him at the forefront of general counsel in the sector.