Colombia Teams 2017
| Citi
Citi
| China CITIC Bank International
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Citi’s Central America (CA) legal team is structured with general counsels...
| Citigroup Latin America
In Latin America, Citi has held a leading position in the financial services industry since 1904, when it started operations in Panama. Citi has the largest footprint of any financial...
The Latin American in-house legal team at Citigroup is led by the highly experienced Mariel Creo who serves as managing director for investment banking and capital markets origination legal and...
| Citibank Portugal
With a remit that extends to all of the country transactions and regulatory implementation for Citibank in Portugal, the legal team of the company is led by Isabel Charraz in...
| Citibank Europe – Sucursal em Portugal
Citibank in Portugal has been established for over 33 years, hosting corporate and investment banking, a markets business and Sagres, a special purpose entity that undertakes securitisation transactions, in particular...
| Citibank
Süreyya Uğurses, the country legal counsel, company secretary and assistant general manager, who has over 20 years’ experience in the banking and finance sector, leads the legal team of four...
| Citibank Turkey
Having over 200 million customer accounts and operating in more than 100 countries, Citibank is one of the leading global financial institutions in the world. It started doing business in...
| Citibank del Peru
With a presence in Peru for almost 100 years, the financial activities of Citibank del Peru are supported by a legal team consisting of four highly experienced in-house lawyers who...
| Citigroup
Those unfamiliar with Islamic finance would be unlikely to name Citigroup a key player in the industry, but since 1981 the bank has been at the forefront of developing Shari’ah...
| CitiBanamex
The commercially minded and talented in-house team at Citibanamex provided guidance on the recently signed US$15m financing agreement with Microemprendedor Assistance Council, (CAMESA), to provide financing for CAMESA’s microfinance and...
| Citibanamex
The legal team at Citibanamex, one of Mexico’s largest banks, has been involved in some very large deals that has given them recognition both within the bank and throughout the...
| Citi Greece
Citi’s Greek legal team is made of industry professionals highly skilled in institutional banking, particularly within the global shipping industry, private banking, global markets and corporate investment banking. Citi Greece...
| Citibank Canada
The Canadian franchise of Citigroup has roots in Canada dating back 100 years. In Canada, the global bank operates multiple entities including schedule II and schedule III banks that service...
| CITIC Capital Holdings
CITIC Capital is one of the top 10 biggest financial groups in Hong Kong and in order to ensure its business is conducted smoothly and compliantly, a highly praised legal...
| Citi
Kate Fewings, regional head of legal for global financial giant Citi in the Asia Pacific region, leads a team of approximately 220 lawyers in the Citi Asia Pacific legal team...
| Citibank Colombia
The Citibank Colombia legal team has been through significant change and accomplished much in the last year and continues to demonstrate its strength. Led expertly by general counsel Francisco Baquerizo...
| CITIC Capital Holdings
Since its founding in 2002, CITIC Capital Holdings (“CITIC Capital”) has become a major name in the global alternative investment management and advisory sector. Specialising in private equity, real estate,...
| China CITIC Bank
Particularly lauded for its excellent record in litigations, the China CITIC Bank legal function is also well-respected for its generally high level of expertise and extremely proficient core of senior...
Fauzia Kehar, director and cluster legal head for Gulf and Pakistan, manages a long standing team of seven lawyers as direct reports and two as matrix reports, all of whom...
| CITIC Capital Holdings
CITIC Capital Holdings (CITIC Capital) is an alternative investment management and advisory company. Yong Kai Wong is the managing director, head of special projects and co-general counsel at the company...
| Citi
In common with their contemporaries in the financial services sector across Europe, Citi’s Ireland-based in-house lawyers have been dealing with an ever-increasing set of regulatory requirements of late, with this...
| Citi El Salvador
Following Citi’s 2016 divestiture and consumer business sale, the bank’s stellar legal function in Central America has implemented leaner and more efficient processes in order to serve internal and external...
| Citibank India
Citibank India is an Indian private sector bank headquartered in Mumbai and is a subsidiary of Citigroup, a multinational financial services corporation. As one of the premier financial institutions in...
| Citibank Argentina
The March 2017 sale of Citi’s consumer business in Argentina had a big impact on the company’s legal team in the country. Explaining the effect of the function’s reduction in...
| Citibank
Citibank in Egypt has undergone major changes to its business strategy over the past few years. The parent company decided to take the major step of ending its retail banking...
Having had a presence in the country since the early 20th century, the Colombian activities of international bank Citi are supported by a strongly recommended in-house legal team. From their base in Bogotá, the team is particularly known for providing first rate counsel and being a group of established legal professionals dedicated to teamwork and protecting the business of Citi in Colombia. Totalling 14 employees including several senior attorneys, the lawyers in the function are described by Francisco Baquerizo, general counsel, as being ‘client-oriented but with a very sharp criteria of risk that is input in the legal process and work’. Despite all being locally-trained Colombian lawyers, the way Citi’s company structure operates enables them to develop ‘high skills regarding New York law documentation’, displaying the enrichment of their development and the time efficiency and cost reduction they provide to the operation. Keen to build bridges between the business and key clients, the legal team has the important responsibility to support ‘the most important investment banking transactions of Colombia executed by public sector, government and private companies’. Key areas of focus for the team include establishing long-term relationships with key clients by building ‘security, stability and trust’, qualities which serve the team well in dealing with the dynamism of a large international bank and maintaining timely delivery of results without giving up quality. In terms of specific projects, Baquerizo mentions a highlight of executing a document rationalisation project – which he claims has ‘narrowed down substantially the size of the documents that contain the bank products’ – while the team was also central to ‘digitalisation of all businesses and virtual documentation poses an interesting risk from a legal perspective’.
Managing director, Asia Pacific general counsel and co-general counsel legacy franchises
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Managing director, Asia Pacific general counsel and co-general counsel legacy franchises
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Managing director, Asia Pacific general counsel and co-general counsel legacy franchises
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