Bridgestone has long held a strong presence in Latin America and now, through the various subsidiaries that form its Latin American Tire division, operates more tire sales outlets than any...

Since 2013, Adlin Castro-Escobar has advised on broker-dealer, investment grade and Latin America debt capital markets transactions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, where she serves as...

Adrián Fernández Mondragón is regional chief counsel and compliance officer for Latin America at broadband, enterprise, and wireless infrastructure company CommScope. He handles a range of matters, from transactional work...

Adrienne Cornejo has more than 25 years of legal experience across in-house and private practice roles, covering different sectors and holding a number of international roles. In her current role...

Alex Tolston is general counsel of Hemisphere Media Group (NASDAQ: HMTV), a leading publicly traded Spanish-language media company that operates television networks in the US and Latin America. One nominator,...

Alexandra Pizzinini has three post-graduate degrees and is fluent in five languages (English, France, Spanish, Portuguese, and German). This thirst for knowledge has shaped her professional life as a lawyer....

UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, has been increasingly active in Latin America over recent years, investing in new facilities as it seeks to compete with rival carriers for...

Allison Tomlinson is lead counsel in the Northeast region and Latin America at architecture, design, planning and consulting firm Gensler, where she provides legal support to offices in Mexico, Brazil...

Described by one senior law firm partner as ‘one of the strongest general counsel I have ever worked with’, Ana Siegel received a wide range of nominations for her work...

Andrea Mon oversees legal affairs relating to Rockwell’s subsidiaries in Latin America, a region home to the company’s largest factory – located in Monterrey, Mexico – as well as major...

Andrés Cedrón joined Michigan-based Fortune 500 medical technologies company Stryker Corporation in 2010 as its first dedicated Latin America legal specialist. He now heads the legal and compliance teams responsible...

Andrew Balcar joined Ohio-based Murray Energy Corporation, one of the largest independent operators of coalmines in the US, in 2013 as assistant general counsel. He has substantial experience of dealing...

Andy Smith heads legal operations across the Americas for French multinational automotive components supplier Valeo. Based in Troy, Michigan Smith’s role sees him cover a huge range of markets and...

For nearly 30 years now, Armando Gómez has worked for some of the largest multinationals active in Latin America, including Colgate-Palmolive (1989-1998), GSK Mexico (1998-2001), Eli Lilly (2004-2010) and, since...

Described by one nominator as ‘an exceptional lawyer with a deep understanding of the commercial dynamics that govern cross-border matters’, Bernardo González-Irizarry has been a member of Merck’s legal team...

Tech Data acquired Avnet’s Technology Solutions business for $2.6 billion in early 2017, announcing shortly afterwards that it would continue with the existing staff. As such, Bettina Freire, associate general...

Bradley Stein oversees more than 40 staff across the corporate legal, litigation and claims and global compliance and ethics groups at Royal Caribbean Cruises and its associated brands. He joined...

One of four continental general counsel serving Marriott outside the US, Brenda Durham is lead counsel for the company’s hotels and resorts throughout the Caribbean and Latin America and legal...

Carlos Lanardonne is general counsel and compliance officer for the Latin America region at Sandoz, the generics division of global pharmaceutical company Novartis. Before joining Sandoz in May 2014 he...

Carrie Freed directs and oversees complex litigation across many different Latin American jurisdictions in her role as assistant general counsel at Philip Morris International. Moreover, she does so with ‘with...

Casey Furman heads legal affairs for the Latin America and Caribbean operations of Verifone, an electronic payment company that sells merchant payment devices and operating systems to businesses across the...

Chad Tatum is associate general counsel with responsibility for Latin America at Dart Container, the world’s largest manufacturer of foam cups and containers. Tatum oversees legal matters related to Dart’s...

Christian Chomat has a wealth of experience in the legal sector, having held private practice and corporate counsel roles across the Americas. Currently assistant general counsel at Ravago Amercias, Chomat...

Cristiano Bernarde is responsible for all legal affairs across the Latin America and Caribbean region at German multinational enterprise software business SAP, a major provider of software systems and applications...

Cristina Scarano Canino is a business and legal professional with expertise in the media and television industry. In her current position at BBC Worldwide she has responsibility for legal matters...

Based in Franklin, Tennessee, Dale Kimball has primary responsibility for all legal issues in the Latin America region at Nissan. Kimball manages a team of 15 lawyers and reports to...

Daniel Chavez joined US photovoltaic manufacturer First Solar as assistant general counsel in February 2016. He was previously a partner at Texas-based law firm McDermott Will & Emery where he...

David Camhi was appointed as Playa Hotels & Resorts first ever general counsel in 2011, just five years after the company was established. Playa specialises in the acquisition and development...

Since 2015, David Flavell has led the legal function responsible for PepsiCo’s Latin American beverage and foods business, including PepsiCo Mexico Foods and PepsiCo South America, Central America and Caribbean...

Fuelled by its growing middle class, Latin America has seen an increased demand for high-quality education recently, along with a surge of companies looking to provide it. Among the leading...

Diana Becerra joined 4finance, Europe’s largest and fastest growing online and mobile consumer lending group, as Miami-based Latin America head of legal in December 2015. Her appointment as the company’s...

Donal Luna is director and senior counsel at the New York offices of Natixis, the international corporate, investment, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group...

In the world of fine fragrances getting things right in Latin America is hugely important. Brazil is the largest market for fine fragrances in the world and the third largest...

Fatima Wolff is senior director for legal and compliance across Latin America at Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC), where she leads a team of five lawyers covering Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela,...

Fernando Avila-Bavaresco joined ConocoPhillips in Venezuela in 2003 and moved to its Houston, Texas office in 2007. He now serves as senior legal counsel, providing advice to the Latin America...

Francisco Acuña is one of a small number of lawyers employed by Ciena, a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software and services. Although Ciena posted revenues of $2.6bn last...

Davidson, North Carolina-based Gary Zaugg has been associate general counsel and regional compliance director for the Americas at global industrials company Ingersoll Rand (IR) since 2015. Described as ‘an incredibly...

Gonzalo Garcia Lussardi is described by one nominator as ‘without a doubt one of the most experienced and respected LatAm counsel working in the US today. His knowledge of the...

Gretchen Nagy has served as general counsel at US-based real estate-focused investment and management company Jamestown since 2007 and as managing director since 2012. Jamestown entered Latin America in 2013,...

Bill Carvalho was appointed as chief legal and compliance officer at The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) – one of the six continental governing bodies...

Ines Bahachille joined Ingram Micro, the world’s largest wholesaler of technology products and services, in March 2017 following nearly 10 years spent as senior counsel at Diageo. She was widely...

Isaac Osaki is general counsel for the Latin America region at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he also serves as head of legal for the global rates and currencies...

Iván Sandoval is chief of legal affairs for Latin America (including the Caribbean) at Colgate-Palmolive. He has, says one nominator, ‘been a leader in Colgate’s different government and stakeholder initiatives...

Ivania Oberti Naranjo is a member of the senior management team and director of business, compliance and legal affairs for Latin America at boutique insurer PVG, part of a multinational...

Since 2012, Jaime Borja Lascurain has been legal director for Latin America at customer experience and call centre technology provider Genesys, overseeing everything from intellectual property to litigation and compliance...

Jay Martin is the vice president, chief compliance officer and senior deputy general counsel for industrials and oilfield services company Baker Hughes Incorporated (BHI), now a part of General Electric....

Jennifer Perez is senior counsel for Bupa Global Latin America (Bupa), a division of UK-headquartered private healthcare insurer Bupa International. One of the largest medical insurers in the world, Bupa...

Jennifer Munoz is director and assistant general counsel providing legal support to Bank of America Merrill (BAML) Lynch’s M&A financial advisory and Latin America bank finance groups. She has, says...

Joe Hill is currently a managing director and the head of legal and compliance for Latin America and Iberia at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. He is, says one...

Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI) was created in 2011, following the spinoff of its mobile phone division (Motorola Mobility). Now headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and with a revenue of over $6bn,...

John Scott has served as general counsel and general manager of the legal department to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) since August 2015. IDB is one of the largest sources...

Based at 3M’s Minneapolis headquarters, Jorge Fernández González is responsible for the company’s legal operations in Latin America and holds parallel responsibility for all non-US regions as legal head of...

Jorge Zemborain is described as ‘an outstanding lawyer . . . smart, committed, extremely efficient [and] a great team leader’ by one nominator. Since 2010 he has overseen legal operations...

Formerly the animal health division of Pfizer, Zoetis, the largest producer of medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock in the world, became an independent company in 2012. Zoetis’ current...

Juan Pablo Perez is Cisco System’s general counsel for Latin America. Based in Miami, Perez oversees a team of seven lawyers located in Cisco’s core regional markets providing advice on...

Citibank director and associate general counsel Juan Rincon-Cortes supports the Latin America and Caribbean operations at their regional headquarters in Miami. The bank has operations in almost every country across...

Miami-based Jurg Zundel oversees all legal services across Latin America and the Caribbean for Caterpillar, one of the largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment in the world and a...

Karen Salas-Morales heads legal affairs for Latin America at publicly-traded international telecommunications and media company Millicom International. Millicom offers a range of telecom and digital services to over 56 million...

Kimberly Chainey’s wide-ranging role sees her leading on the legal aspects of Avis Budget Group (ABG)’s global M&A matters, protecting its global IP and supporting its strategic initiatives around new...

Larissa Zagustin is general counsel for the Americas cluster at Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), owner of some of the world’s best-known entertainment brands including Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon....

Larra Call Waldmann is associate general counsel and compliance officer for Latin America and Canada at Cardinal Health, a Fortune 500 manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceuticals and medical products that...

LaTanya Langley serves as vice president and general counsel at BIC International, the world’s number one manufacturer of ballpoint pens and a leading producer of other writing instruments. To get...

Lin Cherry is senior vice president – business and legal affairs and general counsel for HBO Latin America Group, distributor of the premium pay television services HBO, Max and Cinemax...

Weston, Florida-based Ricoh Latin America serves the South and Central America, Mexico, and Caribbean regions with a range of office devices, including print and graphic systems, scanning technologies, digital and...

Since 2003, Maria Fernanda Font has played a big part in facilitating the growth in the Americas division of logistics, air, land and sea freight, e-commerce, and global mail carrier...

Since joining Citigroup in 2010, Mariel Creo has supported a number of economically significant capital markets transactions, including offerings by institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Panama and Mexico. She...

Marisol Mateos in an in-house lawyer with unrivalled experience in the hotel and hospitality industry. Across the course of her career she has worked for three of the best-known brands...

Mark Prybylski is chief legal counsel of Argos USA, the US arm of cement producer Argos and a subsidiary of Colombian conglomerate Grupo Argos. Prybylski is described as ‘an exceptionally...

Cuba-born Marta Carreira-Slabe took an unusual route to law. She began her career as a broadcast journalist and news anchor in Illinois before retraining as a lawyer and becoming clerk...

Mary Barrazotto is senior vice president, general counsel – North America and Latin America for Brown-Forman, one of the largest spirits and wine companies in the US and owner of...

As in-house counsel at Phoenix Tower International (PTI), Matías Hercovich is responsible for all legal and corporate aspects of the company’s Latin-American M&A, real estate and telecommunications transactions. He also...

Described as ‘an exceptional attorney’, Delta Air Lines’ deputy general counsel Matthew Knopf impressed nominators with his ‘great attention to detail and the consistent excellence of his work’. Knopf joined...

Melanie Montenegro heads the legal function at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal aimed at Hispanic and Latino Americans in the US broadcast through the American Spanish-language platforms Telemundo...

AT&T subsidiary DIRECTV is one of the leading global digital television entertainment services provider in the US and Latin America (including Mexico and the Caribbean). In the latter market it...

Michael Sopchick works in the office of the general counsel at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), reporting to general counsel John Scott. The ‘exceptionally talented’ Sopchick is described as a...

Over the course of his career Michael Sukenik has built up an impressive array of experience in the legal sector, from working in private practice, in-house and at the US...

In June 2017 Michelle Beckers joined marketing execution company InnerWorkings in a pan-geographic counsel role, providing legal support to the company’s non-US operations with a special focus on Latin America....

Something of an outlier in this list, Mitchell Lowe is, strictly speaking, not a legal counsel. Since 2015 he has served as president at Sizzling Platter, the US franchise operator...

For nearly 20 years, Morela Zubillaga de Paris has advised BNP Paribas on its corporate banking activities in Latin America. A period of rapid growth and subsequent restructuring into pan-Americas...

Pan-American Life Insurance Group is US-based group of international insurance and reinsurance companies with branches and affiliates Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and 13 Caribbean...

US-based communications infrastructure investment firm Digital Bridge was formed in 2013 to acquire, fund and manage a range of assets in the communications infrastructure sector, from cellular and broadcast towers...

Ramon Rivera leads the Latin America legal function at research-based pharmaceutical company AbbVie, overseeing a team of senior legal counsel located in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guatemala. Under...

Though headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Latin America division of Microsoft has a strong presence in each of its subsidiaries across the region. Supporting these operations is assistant general...

Rodolfo Rivera is a well-known figure in the US in-house legal market. In his current position he is chief international counsel for Fidelity National Financial – a Fortune 500 company...

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) Corporation’s brands, which include household names Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues, are used by a quarter of the world’s population every day. Its regional operation in Latin America,...

Miami-based Rodrigo Medina is responsible for providing legal and compliance support across Latin America for Medtronic, the largest standalone medical technology company in the world and a global leader in...

Dominican-born Rosa Estrella has carved out a somewhat unique career representing Japanese-headquartered biopharma companies as Latin America counsel. Since November 2016 she has led the Latin America legal function at...

One of the most impressive things about multinational service provider ISS is that in spite of its size – revenues in 2016 were 79bn Danish Kroner, or around $12bn –...

‘Senior managers have told me I need to keep a diary’, says Samuel Libnic, Citigroup’s general counsel for Latin America and Mexico. ‘With all the experiences I’ve had at Citi,...

Santiago Rabassa is described by one nominator as ‘a seasoned business adviser who can always find ways to solve even the most difficult problems’. Since 2015 he has supported the...

Sean Treglia is senior vice president and general counsel, Latin America, government and public policy at CBRE, the largest commercial real estate services company in the world. Since joining CBRE...

Atlanta-based Astrid Seijas McGeeney is vice president and associate general counsel for Turner Latin America. She oversees all legal matters across Latin America, including the acquisition of new content for...

Shafiq Perry is vice president and senior legal counsel at HSBC in New York, where he is frequently involved in analysing cross-border loans to Latin America-based corporates and helping to...

US-based, NASDAQ-listed NII Holdings provides mobile communication services in Argentina and, through its subsidiary Nextel Telecomunicações, Brazil. Shana Smith joined NII in 2009 and has served as the company’s general...

Susanne Kandel is Latin America general counsel at American Tower, a major owner, operator and developer of wireless and broadcast communication real estate. Present in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa...

Terry Hammons is vice president, deputy general counsel, corporate, chief regional counsel and assistant secretary at Albemarle Corporation, a Charlotte, North Carolina based company that develops, manufactures, and markets engineered...

For any regional counsel, coping with a large number of different markets, each with their distinctive commercial, regulatory and legal drivers, is often the biggest challenge of the job. For...

Metro Atlanta-based YKK Corporation of America oversees the operations of Japanese manufacturing group YKK – best known as the world’s largest manufacturer of zips – in Canada, the US and...

Victoria Sánchez leads all aspects of the legal support function for MasterCard’s Geo Central division, covering Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and all the Caribbean region. She is a sophisticated,...

Violeta Longino is vice president, deputy general counsel and regional compliance officer for North America and Central America at French multinational group AccorHotels, the world’s leading hotel operator with a...