About

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, international attorney with extensive experience in corporate, financing, M&A and structuring matters in Latin America. A hugely talented and multi-lingual lawyer with experience of working across Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico), as well as in the US and UK, Sánchez caught nominators’ attention with her deep understanding of how to conduct business across jurisdictions. One nominator, based at a leading Dominican firm, says Sánchez excels in ‘coordinating work in multiple countries with incredible efficiency. She has been able to generate synergy not only between her [team] and her outside counsel in different countries, but she has been instrumental in fostering synergy between local counsel of different countries thereby channelling and coordinating the work on behalf of her company in an innovative and efficient manner. She engages personally in every aspect of the projects she [works on] and follows up with incredible diligence and perseverance until the desired outcome is obtained. In my experience, she has been one of the most productive in-house counsel that I have known’. Another commented that Sánchez has a rare ‘ability to understand the legalese of different countries and how to enable Mastercard to conduct business in all parts of the world’ and praised her ability to work within a large number of regulatory regimes while understanding the ‘policies and customs of the countries she covers across the region’. In her role at Mastercard, Sánchez handles a wide range of commercial work across Geo Central – including business agreements and licenses, sponsorship deals, cardholder promotions, franchising, e-commerce, and intellectual property – and provides support on labour, litigation, antitrust, and regulatory matters.