In-house features - Interviews

The head of Mexico's oil and gas regulator, Juan Carlos Zepeda Molina, talks common safety standards in the Gulf of Mexico and how Mexico is opening up its oil industry after 70 years with Pemex as sole player. Interview by Kyriaki Karadelis

Fernando Fresco traded in Buenos Aires for Kuwait in 2008 to start work for Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration. Marieke Breijer talks to the Argentine about his work as senior legal counsel for the oil & gas company.

GE's regional counsel for Latin America, Josie Jardim, talks to Clare Bolton about her team's work in compliance and diversity - as well as the day job

Dell's Latin America in-house team talk to Amy Stillman about providing fast-tracked legal advice in an expanding and shifting marketplace with a new system for law on demand

This month the Ecuadorean government, together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched an innovative project to protect hydrocarbon-rich forests which is the first of its kind in the world. Through the Yasuni-ITT project the government has agreed not to drill in the Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini oil-field in exchange for donations into a compensation fund, from which it hopes to amass US$3.6 billion in the coming years - approximately half the estimated value of the field’s oil reserves. One of the programme’s architects, Minister for Heritage Coordination Maria Espinosa, spoke to Latin Lawyer about the project’s legal framework. 

The head of international affairs at Chile’s securities and insurance regulator, Macarena Vasquez, talks about getting ready for Chile's new capital markets law and sharing best practices worldwide

Since becoming the head of Mexico's Federal Competition Commission five years ago, Eduardo Pérez Motta has turned the enforcer from a near-dormant government agency to one of the most active enforcers in Latin America. Ron Knox talks to Pérez Motta about how far the commission has come, and what it must do to help Mexico's struggling competition culture

Sebastian Perry talks to Guatemalan lawyer Ivan Illescas, senior counsel at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance agency of the World Bank Group in Washington, DC

The idea that pro bono is banned in most Brazilian states is one many onlookers find shocking. Amy Stillman talks to the man leading a state-by-state battle to change that

Guillermo Ucha, Citigroup’s chief legal officer for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, talks to David Thorley about his work in the region and the challenges of retaining talent.

Maria Rita de Carvalho Drummond, who heads up the M&A activities of Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan's in-house legal team, talks to David Thorley about her department.

The legal director for Total Gas and Electricity in Chile tells Rosie Cresswell how her career maps the first-ever pipeline to carry natural gas from Argentina to Santiago