Career Biography

Violeta Longino, an internationally recognized executive leader, is the General Counsel to GFO Investments – Gale Hospitality Group,a private wealth management firm focused on real estate development projects and other ventures in hospitality, real estate, condos, restaurants, tech, private financings, capital markets & securities, and public company investments.

Violeta is a dual-licensed (Florida and Mexico) multicultural attorney, with extensive in-house and top tier law firm practice and experience in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining GFO Investments, she served as Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and in-house senior counsel for several multinational public and private companies, including Accor, Hard Rock International, and Kayak.

She also practiced law in the Miami offices of the renowned Greenberg Traurig, as well as Holland and Knight, major well-respected U.S. law firms. Violeta’s extensive training, uniqueexperience and understanding of numerous international legal systems provide her with aninvaluable perspective on structuring transactions. She holds the ability to strategically advise on multiple systems of law and jurisdictions.

She earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law and a Licenciado en Derecho (J.D. equivalent), with high honors, from the Universidad La Salle, Mexico City. Violeta was granted Bar Admissions in Florida and Mexico.