About

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 developments such as connected and autonomous vehicles. In addition to this huge workload, she leads the vehicle rental services provider’s Latin America legal team and plays a hugely important role in helping to inform the company’s wider Latin America strategy. One external counsel nominator who has worked closely with Chainey comments: ‘As you might imagine from looking at her resume, [Chainey] is truly exceptional. She does a number of very different jobs, each of which would stretch the average lawyer to their limits. Her work in Latin America has been first rate and alone would justify her inclusion as one of the leading corporate counsel active in the US today, but she has somehow managed to combine this with a global role that is critical to the operations of a very large and successful business’. Chainey joined ABG in 2014 as legal lead for Latin America and Asia Pacific before being promoted to her current role in 2016. She previously led the international legal function at global confectionary company Hershey’s as associate general counsel and has carved out a reputation as an exceptional adviser on cross-border and multijurisdictional matters.