About

Alma Maria Rodriguez Flores has gained comprehensive expertise in negotiations, compliance and commercial real estate during in a number of in-house roles since leaving Deloitte’s legal tax department in 2004. Rodriguez Flores served as group general counsel for over five years at 7-Eleven, an international chain of convenience stores, where she was responsible for the legal issues of its 27 companies in addition to serving as its government and corporate secretary. She then joined H-E-B Mexico, another convenience store operator with a revenue of $21bn. Serving as general counsel and legal representative, Rodriguez Flores led a team of seven lawyers at H-E-B on a range of issues such as real estate litigation, commercial agreements, intellectual property and tax. After spending two years as Nuevo Leon regional president of the National Association of Business Lawyers Bar Association, in 2013 Rodriguez Flores was appointed as general counsel and legal representative for real estate developer, Grupo Stiva. Now responsible for the legal affairs of its 60 companies, she is a key participant in the design of the overall business strategy of the company. In addition to giving legal advice and coordinating the corporate strategy, she leads the legal team that gives frameworks for its projects on industrial parks, shopping malls, warehouses and social housing.