About

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 the region, and Rincon-Cortes advises on a wide range of matters and business segments, acting as a true generalist, from corporate global banking to local consumer and retail products and services to internal investigations and special projects. He is primarily responsible for advising and overseeing on some of the main revenue-generating and control activities at the bank, including complex cross-border transactions and financings, treasury and trade solutions, regulatory affairs, securities, corporate governance and reporting requirements, product approval and handling all sorts of sensitive matters for senior management. He also represents the legal function on a number of internal committees, initiatives and projects and is responsible for appointing and managing external counsel, both local and global, for Latin American matters. Before joining Citibank in 2010, Rincon-Cortes was a senior associate in the energy and infrastructure group within the banking and finance team at the Washington, D.C. office of Clifford Chance. He has also worked in the finance and capital markets teams of Hunton & Williams and Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. and as an associate in the Mexico City office of leading Mexican firm Galicia Abogados. He is dual-qualified in the US and Mexico and also holds two Masters of Laws degrees, obtained from The London School of Economics and Political Science (2001) and The George Washington University School of Law (2006).