Features Latin America

Christian A. Hudtwalcker has a passion for motorcycles that has imbued his legal work as general counsel and vice president of legal, regulatory and public affairs for Telefónica del Perú. Although he began riding his BMW 800 motorcycle some years after he joined the Peruvian telecom, he has logged more than 50,000 kilometers, or 31,000 […]

In a legal career that’s spanned more than 20 years, São Paulo, Brazil, native and resident Bruno Camargo has worked around the world for some multinational corporations while earning many legal degrees and instructing students, too. Camargo considers himself a legal disruptor because of his generalist approach to the law. “I’m the guy that goes […]

Rafael Arnoldo Gómez Salazar has found the sweet spot in his legal career. Gómez, the legal and environmental manager for Grupo Cassa, El Salvador’s largest sugar producer, says at age 42, has been able to advance further professionally than he anticipated when he was younger. He’s enjoying a breadth of duties and responsibilities ranging from […]

While empowering women is as much sound business practice as socially responsible, Fernanda Platero has an interesting take on why it’s even more important in the South American automotive industry. “Here in Brazil, when a family buys a car, usually it’s the mother who decides which car to buy,” she says. “When you think about […]

COVID-19 couldn’t have come at a worse time for Carolina Lourenco. As head of legal at Epson do Brasil, the Brazilian division of the technology company known for its printers and imaging products, she was reconfiguring the company to comply with a far-reaching new data protection law and completing a major merger when the pandemic […]

Words can be beneficial—or, if used incorrectly, lead to catastrophic consequences. At Daikin Applied Americas, Diana Marietti ensures people understand the impact of actions and words. She has firsthand knowledge of the power of words with over 26 years of legal experience as an associate, public defender and in-house counsel for various international companies like […]

As a German full-service developer founded in 1999, UKA Group covers the entire value chain of renewable energy projects. Its current project pipeline for wind and solar farms now exceeds 14 GW globally. With roughly 900 employees, the company is active in Europe and North America. Now leadership is seeking to expand in Chile and […]

Walt Disney once said, “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” And today, 100 years after its founding, his company is a fully diversified entertainment behemoth with $84 billion in revenue and millions of pint-sized fans. Disney has its share of grown-up fans, too, and among them is […]

In the nearly 19 years Aline Goldsztejn has been with Locaweb Company, a Brazilian company that provides solutions for digital transformation, there’s not much she hasn’t done from a legal perspective.  To begin with, she built Locaweb’s legal department as its first in-house counsel.  Since then, Goldsztejn has provided legal and compliance support for Brazil’s […]

As Latin American senior labor and employment counsel for GE Vernova—which includes GE’s current energy businesses units that will become an independent company in early 2024—Carolina Rodrigues is responsible for managing labor legal affairs throughout Latin America.  That means she’s helped the company navigate changes to Mexican laws governing outsourced labor as well as new […]