Features Latin America

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 […]

Established well over a century ago, Grupo Mariposa-Apex is a food and beverage company that operates across Latin America, in Mexico, Ecuador and Central America. It has several arms, including Pepsi bottling plants, and brings in nearly $3 billion in annual revenue. As part of its expansion efforts, it opened BIA Mexico in 2019 and […]

There’s compliance and then there’s taking it beyond what the law requires. The latter is Karla Ordoñez’s preference for Pirelli Mexico and she’s been doing much on that front. Head of legal affairs since November 2021, she had her hands full when Vanguard caught up with her in May. The past couple months she had […]

When Luiz Fernando Roschel joined Firmenich, a Switzerland-based fragrance and flavor company, in 2015, his first goal was to stand up a legal department for Latin America with a dedicated ethics and compliance division and a consolidated company culture in the region. “That went well, and in 2019, we were recognized by a local magazine, […]

There’s something thrilling about standing at the precipice and staring into a massive open pit. So remarks Alejandro Beltran upon returning to his Toronto office after sealing a $50 million deal for his employer to sustain a mining operation in Central America. “I like to go to the mines and see our equipment at work,” […]