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Ask Aneeka Sandher what makes a bag worth carrying, and she will not start with price or brand. She starts with the pull on the zipper, the stitching along a seam, the small mechanical details most people never notice but that she has trained herself to spot instantly. She didn’t pick up this skill in […]

When a big deal closes at Peakhill Capital, someone rings a bell. The sound carries through the office, and everyone knows the company has taken another step forward. For Brady McLeod, general counsel and chief compliance officer, that bell has become one of the understated perks of working at a company built for momentum. At […]

Ten years ago, Luis Velázquez Montes packed up a career built in Mexico City boardrooms and moved to Cancún to join Apple Leisure Group, a company he barely knew, in an industry he had never practiced. He left behind a track record in corporate law for a beach town and a legal department still finding […]

On his first assignments as a young intern, Igor Marzagão learned that the law is often practiced far from a courtroom, and sometimes from behind a courthouse counter. He was tasked with visiting a particular courthouse daily to review case files, and the staff there had a reputation for being uncooperative, even hostile, toward the […]

Before dawn breaks over Mexico City, while most of the capital is still asleep, Ernesto Talamás Velázquez is already several kilometers into his morning run. It is a habit he has kept for years, one that has little to do with racing bibs or finish-line photographs. The value, he has come to understand, lives in […]

After spending two decades advising companies on complex transactions and strategic matters at one of Argentina’s leading law firms, Lorena Aimó took on a new challenge at Laboratorio Elea Phoenix S.A., one of Argentina’s leading pharmaceutical companies. Today, as legal director, Lorena leads all legal affairs of a business operating across multiple Latin American jurisdictions […]

Pabla Perelló spent fifteen years moving through the upper ranks of Chile’s mining sector—Codelco, BHP, Antofagasta Minerals—before stepping into her current role as General Counsel at Marimaca Copper. Her exposure in the mining industry coincided with a broader, personal familiarity with mining. Perelló is the daughter of José Perelló, an internationally recognized geologist whose career […]

When Sabrina Ferrari began her legal career, she never imagined she’d one day help connect millions of Brazilians to the digital world. Today, as vice president of legal and regulatory affairs for Hughes do Brasil, she leads a department at the intersection of law, technology, and social impact—where every contract and regulatory dialogue contributes to […]

Rafael Coelho’s path to becoming head of legal at TSEA reflects a deliberate blend of technical legal training and strategic business vision, shaped by years inside some of Brazil’s most respected law firms and one of its largest industrial groups. Coelho studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and completed his studies […]

When Andrei Aggens describes his work as legal director and assistant general counsel for Procter & Gamble in Brazil, he begins not with regulations, cases, or controls, but with mindset. For him, the legal function inside a company as globally influential as P&G—whose brands reach consumers in more than 180 countries and whose portfolio spans […]