Occupying a position that encompasses both legal and commercial counsel within the upper echelons of the business at IEnova, a Mexican energy infrastructure company, René Buentello Carbonell is an experienced in-house professional with a glowing reputation in the Mexican market. Currently responsible for the entire legal department of IEnova in Mexico, Buentello reports directly to the company president and CEO which is a testament to the high regard in which his advice is held.

Most recently, Buentello has been central to a number of high profile and strategically important business projects for the company, ‘In January of this year we received two awards from Latin Finance, the Follow-On Offering of the Year and the Private Equity deal of the year for the acquisition of Ventika, a 252 megawatts wind generation facility’. With additional responsibility for IEnova’s corporate ethics department, Buentello is particularly proud of the company’s high ranking in the 2017 anti-corruption review in Expansión Magazine, a highly recognised business magazine published in Mexico and across Latin America.