About

Amongst the top 10 largest domestic companies operating in the Mexican economy, Arca Continental is a beverage manufacturing and distribution company under licence from the Coca-Cola Company and currently stands as the third largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world. Presiding over the company’s most senior legal position, Jaime Sánchez Fernández – in his capacity of chief legal officer – has achieved industry-wide recognition for his part in the legal team’s recent accomplishments. He was instrumental to the 2016 agreement that saw Coca-Cola bring Arca Continental into the US to be its exclusive bottler in the southwest region of the country, covering Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas – operating nine production plants in total. This saw the Arca Continental legal team recognised in the GC Powerlist: Mexico Teams in 2016, and proved to be one of the defining transactions in the company’s history. He served for eight years at Grupo Alfa as a corporate counsel and also practiced law independently. Sánchez has a Bachelor’s degree in law from Universidad de Monterrey and a Master’s degree in law from Michigan University.