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United States Latin America Specialists 2017

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Andy Smith

General counsel, North and South America | Valeo

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Andy Smith

General counsel, North and South America | Valeo

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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 issues. Though he covers both US and Latin American legal affairs, nominators pointed to his expertise in the latter market. Fluent in Spanish and able to draft in Portuguese, Smith has a long running association with the region. Shortly after graduating in 1997 he spent a year at a small non-profit organisation headquartered in a rural community in Baja California, Mexico near the San Diego border, helping to run a number of programmes offering free lunches, English as a second language classes, after-school tutoring and sports activities for children. Before joining Valeo in 2011, Smith was an associate in the corporate department of leading Detroit-based firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn and, from 2005 to 2006 an associate in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell where he was a member of the firm’s capital markets, credit and Spain and Latin America practices. Before this Smith spent time as an analyst in the Latin American treasury centre of General Motors Acceptance Corporation in Detroit – formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors and currently an independent Fortune 300 financial services firm (Ally Financial). This saw him training and supervising treasury teams across the region, negotiating loan agreements with banks throughout Latin America and developing, launching and administering a number of innovative capital markets programmes, including what was, at the time, the largest medium term note programme to be launched in Mexico. Smith has received a number of awards and recognitions over the years, including being named top corporate counsel in 2013, 2014 and 2016 by DBusiness, Detroit’s leading business journal. He is, in the words of one nominator, ‘a general counsel who combines the detailed technical knowledge of a top-tier law firm partner with the general commercial sense of a senior business leader – one of the truly outstanding counsel I have come across in my many years of practice’.

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