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Air Liquide is a world leader company in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health.• Act as head of the Mexico legal department.• Provide relevant, accurate, and on-point legal guidance to company executives, department heads and other internal stakeholders, including sales and procurement teams, HR, IT, Safety and Finance.• Monitor and ensure that the company and departments comply with business and corporate policies/requirements, and that its operations comply with any applicable laws, rules and regulations. • Examining, creating, managing and negotiating agreements such as sale, purchase, employment, lease, and license agreements, among other legal documents.• Maintaining knowledge of organization’s operations and legal documents.• Conducting legal research and managing/supervising company's litigation strategy with outside counsel pertaining to legal actions.• Promulgating and creating policies/directives of corporate acts and decisions.• Preserving and managing all corporate records.• Handling statutory filings, such as licensing forms, permits.• Support the business with M&A operations.• Managing organization's intellectual property.

UOP is a multi-national company leader in developing and delivering technology to the petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production, and major manufacturing industries.Provide legal advice and counsel to UOP Sales and other internal departments, management and business leaders on all legal issues concerning the relationship with Latin American clients. • Drafting, reviewing, analyzing and negotiating all kinds of complex commercial agreements under various Latin American jurisdictions and legal systems, with total value of more than $700 Million USD.• Advice and counsel on day-to-day issues as well as strategic and systemic initiatives.• Lead and manage a group of three attorneys. • Business-oriented analysis of contractual and corporate legal risks in a fast-growing, completely diverse environment, ensuring regulatory compliance.• Strategically and in a cost-effective manner, manage, monitor and partner with outside counsel regarding all applicable fields.• Negotiation of settlement agreements, prevention of lawsuits, mitigation of potential disputes.• Support compliance policy and program initiatives.

Perform analysis, drafting and negotiation of UOP contracts primarily for licensing UOP process technology and the sale of engineering services, products, equipment and other services to a broad array of private and government-controlled customers located in the US and other regions.• Ensure implementation of HON/UOP contract policies and contract management practices.• Advise clients through RFQ and other competitive bidding processes.• Lead and manage a group of two attorneys. • Draft, analyze, interpret, and develop contract terms and conditions• Processing contracts per contract managements systems.• Conduct general legal review of commercial publications involving business and new products for issues such as anti- trust, advertising and product liability.• Ability to manage multiple overlapping deadlines related to a large number of complex contract issues.• Advise and assist clients in opportunity/risk assessments.• Conduct legal reviews and approvals for a wide range of business and product commercial announcements.• Stay informed on general legal issues including anti-trust, IP, advertising law, product liability, general compliance and public company liabilities and risks.

Honeywell Aerospace is a manufacturer of aircraft engines and avionics, as well as a producer of auxiliary power units (APUs) and other aviation products.• Responsible for contract review and negotiations throughout contract life cycle, providing contractual and administrative support (analysis, review, drafting, negotiation flow-down, interpretation of a contract and all related documents, and dispute resolution) in assigned areas of responsibility.• Identifying and mitigating risks connected with non-standard conditions and proposed changes in contractual documents.• Advise internal clients, including Honeywell’s Integrated Supply Chain, concerning contractual requirements; recognizing emerging issues.• Ensures compliance with corporate policies and procedures applicable to contracting and contract management, including liaising with the Law department and other stakeholders within Aerospace Team for review and approval of unusual terms.

The leading worldwide manufacturer of furniture for offices, hospitals, and classrooms.• Draft, analyze and negotiate commercial sale contracts for products and services of the Steelcase portfolio in the North America region.• Accountable for developing in conjunction with the U.S. Sales Organization, strategic sales contracts in order to comply with federal and state laws, minimizing the corporation’s liabilities and reflecting current corporate policies.• Review of customer bids for legal and business risks and development of bid responses to comply with federal antitrust laws.• Provide direction for company’s sales representatives to develop, manage, improve and communicate contract processes and policies for the U.S. Sales Organization.

Local law firm specialized in Corporate Law, experienced practice included:• Corporate Secretary.• Corporate governance (domestic and international).• Civil and commercial agreements (domestic and international).• International financing and project structuring.• Mergers and acquisitions.• Joint ventures and strategic alliances (domestic and international).• Franchising (domestic).• General commercial negotiations (procurement, supply, services and financing agreements, domestic and international)• Intellectual property law.