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Jan. 2025
BayerLegal & Compliance Business Partner Central America, Caribbean & Andean Region
Jul. 2021 - Sep. 2024Costa RicaLegal Business Partner in charge of leading the legal & compliance initiatives for the consumer health, radiology business, as well as 11 Bayer Production and Research and Development sites, including the Global Business Service Office in Costa Rica. Key Achievements: - New Bayer Medical site delivery. It is a US$200M investment that is supporting the company's Sustainability pillar. With this investment Bayer will positively impact women’s health in low and mid income countries starting in 2024. I led the legal strategy to actually build and execute a legal framework with specific tasks, team members and processes to achieve following the project’s timelines. - Environmental Science business divestment in Central America, Caribbean and Andean region. I was the Legal Business Partner that built and executed for our multijurisdiction region the legal framework for the divestment and Cinven’s acquisition of the Environmental Science division. This project was executed in 6 months following a specific legal strategy, managing tasks in more than 12 jurisdictions. - Redesign of the tender process internal procedure to manage efficiently the Radiology tender processes across the region. This initiative brought significant time and legal documentation efficiencies.
BayerLegal Business Partner Andean, Central America & Caribbean | STA- Crop Science, Digital Farming
Apr. 2021 - Aug. 2021Legal Business Partner assigned for the cluster from in a multijurisdiction environment from Guatemala to Perú, in charge of leading the legal Crop Science business during 4 months double hating with the primary role. Key Achievements: - Lead the final review and approval for a loyalty program bundle which is applicable in full Latin America.
BayerLegal & Compliance Express LATAM Lead
Jul. 2020 - Jul. 2021Costa RicaLead Counsel in charge of shaping and managing Bayer´s Compliance, Legal and Data Privacy Center for Latin America and Canada. Leader of a 7 people team providing advice on general legal matters and specific compliance policies and regulations applicability, as well as data privacy measures to the different business units. In charge of training the relevant stakeholders in specific compliance policies and new ways of work. Key Achievements:
- Lead the first year of the project which translated into the first in- house ALSP (Alternative Legal Service Provider) in Compliance for Bayer.
- Established the methodology for the global quality review for all the consultations.
Infosys BPMLead Counsel North America
Nov. 2019 - Jul. 2020Costa RicaLead Counsel for the Legal Management Service operation supporting Google. In charge of monitoring a large scale commercial contract management process, quality checks of all sort of commercial agreements requested by the marketing function, contract negotiation, high risks triggers spotting (employment, data privacy, anti-bribery and corruption, compliance in general). In charge of leading a legal professionals team assigned for commercial contracts drafting. Trained in Google’s legal operations. Key Achievements: -Established a methodology in which the quality of the contracts increased from ⅖ to ⅘. -Managed to find efficiencies in the overall operation which ended in a faster turnaround time maintaining the quality of the contracts.
UberCommercial Legal Counsel Central America & Caribbean
Feb. 2019 - Sep. 2019Legal manager responsible for the legal business support upon compliance (US, EU and local regulations), creation of all kind of commercial and technology agreements, approval of communications to third parties, real estate arrangements and issues, business companies structure maintenance, compliance within the different markets regulatory issues as an innovative technology company. Key Achievements: - Restructured the Terms & Conditions (contracts) applicable to the app users (drivers and riders), to be compliant as a technology company.
- Legal assessment and implementation of a new in-app product, providing all the relevant technical documentation that secured the business regionally.
- Established a Contract Lifecycle methodology and procedure.
BATLegal Manager Central America
Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2019Legal Manager responsible for the operations in the Central American markets, 7 markets in total Dominican Republic included as part of the cluster. The role supported the organization as a sole responsible in corporate law, corporate governance, risk management/assessment, compliance, commercial law, finance, Shared Service Center legal support and legal cases management. Key Achievements: - Lead the implementation of a new compliance policies bundle, focused in the Central American markets with a high influence of the USA and U.K. compliance related regulations ensuring compliance from the whole cluster. This included creating training material and facilitating trainings.
- Lead the restructure of several Central American markets with a high risk management of employment law issues.
BATCommercial Legal Counsel Korea
Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017KoreaInternational Assignment supporting the Korean, Taiwan and Japan Cluster upon the analysis, risk assessment, approval and input upon all the initiatives coming from the commercial and marketing function. The assignment focused as well on the legal viability of commercial decisions per the Korean Regulation and internal policies. Key Achievements: - Part of the Legal Team in charge of the business readiness and compliance according to the Korean regulation, for the launch of a new product in the market.
- As a consequence of being in charge of the commercial initiatives legal approval, managed to keep the business out of risk and compliant, providing a high standard legal advice in a different jurisdiction.
BATLegal Caribbean & Central America Support Counsel
Feb. 2014 - Jan. 2017Responsible for the operations in the Caribbean and Central American markets, 32 markets in total. The focus of the role was to support in corporate and commercial law, corporate governance, risk management/assessment, compliance, marketing, finance, Shared Service Center support and legal cases management. Key Achievements: - Legal workstream lead for Caribbean and Central America in the biggest worldwide organizational transformation. In charge of all the legal readiness and local regulation compliance for a standard operational business model for each of the markets.
- In charge of a commercial claim within the U.K. jurisdiction, leading the business and claim strategy to a negotiation in the best company’s interest.
- Supported the business in several distribution agreements renegotiations (+3million US$ agreements).
BATLegal Analyst Caribbean & Central America
Mar. 2013 - Feb. 2014costa ricaResponsible for the legal team support in the Central American and Caribbean markets, 32 markets in total. The main focus of the role was to be in charge of all the contract management policy, including drafting/review of all sort of commercial agreements, and the internal stakeholders legal consultations. Key Achievements: - Develop and implement a formal contract policy for all the organization, establishing a contract lifecycle management in the full end to end, finishing with the contract execution.
- Restructure of the shareholders management procedures making more efficient the team work, and improving the customer service rendered to shareholders.
- Lead the creation of all sort of business commercial agreements models
Gonzalez, Jimenez & AsociadosAssociate
Jan. 2011 - Mar. 2013Costa RicaIndependent attorney managing all sort of legal services to private and public companies. Key Achievements: - Legal set-up within Costa Rica and Panama compliance of an agroindustry business with exports to Europe and Asia. - Legal recovery of a textile distribution business in Costa Rica, managing all the technical requirements for a shareholder company take over.
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