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Grupo Alsea en Colombia’s in-house legal team is formed of four lawyers and a business administrator and headed by legal advisor Katherine Silva Hernández, as leader of the department. The team is credited for expertly handling all of the company’s corporate, commercial, contractual and tax law matters recently. Silva is responsible for the relations with corporations’ shareholders, authorities, and managers, and ensure the compliance to the statutes of the company. She is is involved in business decisions and coordinates and defines the legal directions of the company, including without limitation to litigation strategies. Supporting her are senior lawyers who act as subject specialists in corporate law, contractual disputes, financial authority requirements and compliance relating to the Group’s stores. The team has the support of a business administrator who oversees budgets for the area, control legal payments including fines and penalties defined by authorities, and reviews to ensure compliance with the sanitary and operating requirements of commercial establishments. In the last year, the Group added to its food retail portfolio acquiring Gastronomia Italiana en Colombia, a major Colombian pizza and Italian cuisine chain. It has also have been part of the expansion plan of Dominos and Starbucks stores in Colombia. Silva Hernández identifies that the team is ‘radiated by the commitment and passion for the growth of the company in which we work, acquiring day-by-day the expertise that is required in a field like ours that has a strong implied competence and that demands an excellent experience for our consumers in order to create loyalty and the conquest of new markets’. This experience is noted by a nominator who adds the following: ‘This economic group has been growing in Colombia, hand-in-hand with Grupo Alsea Mexico handles franchises of the importance of Satrbucks, Dominos, Pf Changs and Burger King among others. The company has had the ability to develop with a young team, an area of comprehensive advice for the company, of course with external advisors who accompany them in major conflicts. Led by Katherine Silva Hernández, a lawyer with extensive knowledge in corporate, corporate and economic law, the team is not only recognised for its integrity, but for the full compliance with the rules, and a low rate of conflicts, processes and sanctions’.