Team size: 40

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

OCESA has faced events that have severely impacted on the continuity of its activities, but none more than the COVID pandemic. Its core business was fully canceled, and it had to be reinvented by innovative events in alternative formats (streaming, concerts with audiences in cars or in personal spaces, or with limited capacity), and even adapting its operational and logistical capacity to build hospitals that served to attend the health emergency. Throughout these processes, OCESA relies on the support of its legal team to ensure that, from planning to execution, all legal requirements are met, especially compliance with regulations, implementation of standards, and execution of contracts using international industry best practices, many of which have been initially applied at OCESA.

What are the major cases or transactions you have been involved in recently?

During 2025, Live Nation (a US company, worldwide leader in the live entertainment industry) increased its majority stake in OCESA, with significant participation from the local team. Additionally, OCESA, through its subsidiaries in Colombia, acquired a majority stake in the largest ticketing company in Medellín.

What measures has your company taken to embed sustainability practices into its core business operations, and how does the role of the general counsel contribute to driving and ensuring sustainable practices within the company?

By an initiative led, among others, by the GC and in which he is part of the coordinating team, OCESA has a sustainability committee, with participation of the operational, commercial and administrative areas, where all sustainability objectives are defined, strategies are presented and discussed, and the results are measured. This committee reports to the CEO and shareholders these objectives and results. Such coordinated and institutional actions have allowed the company to consolidate these efforts, giving them structure.

How do you prioritise diversity and inclusion within your legal department, and what initiatives have you implemented to foster a more inclusive and equitable work environment?

OCESA significantly reduced its staff during the pandemic. Upon its return, clear objectives were set to generate equity in the hiring of personnel and today 49% of employees are women. In the legal area, this initiative was from the beginning and at all levels, starting with the decision-making areas, and a good balance has been achieved in the team.