About

Cristina Lloreda became vice president for legal affairs at holding company Sanford Management, where she handles the legal requirements of a portfolio of 15 companies, in May 2013. Having begun her career at Colombian firm Brigard & Urrutia, and subsequently spent time with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, she first moved in house at Citibank (Colombia), joining as a senior attorney in 2009 and rapidly being identified as ‘high potential’, an elect group of a dozen staff drawn from among 3000. As part of Citi’s investment banking team in Bogotá, Lloreda was integral to bringing to market the first exchange traded fund (ETF) in Colombia, a significant milestone for the local stock exchange, and one that was built upon over two years of work in close conjunction with the regulators. Admirers are in no doubt as to her quality: ‘she’s definitely someone who stands out: she has a strong temperament, is studious and well-prepared, and expects the same form her external counsel. Fundamentally she’s a “doer”: she delivers’. A former private practice colleague says ‘she’s extremely capable, a real lawyer’s lawyer, and her responsibilities today reach beyond the juridical and into strategic matters’.