About

Luis Fernando Diaz, has served as regional counsel at SAP since 2013 having started as a general counsel for Spanish speaking Latin America in 2006 bringing a great wealth of experience to the IT sector in Latin America. He is responsible for leading the legal contracts organisation in northern Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on negotiation, deal closing and overall legal support throughout litigation processes. A nominator has highlighted Fernando’s ‘over 15 years of experience in the IT sector’ and says that, ‘he is significantly results-oriented as he contributes to the successful closure of business deals, from a legal standpoint’. Adding that Fernando, ‘is a business-oriented counsel with a profound risk assessment capability that enables management to make the appropriate business decisions, while ensuring the full implementation of SAP’s code of conduct internally and across suppliers and other business partners. He is a very consistent lawyer who has the ability to manage in-house and external counsels in all jurisdictions over the Latin America and Caribbean region’.