Verónica Raffo Email & Phone Number

Verónica Raffo is a partner in FERRERE and is responsible for the firm’s strategic direction, business management, and her practice area team. She is involved in highly complex and high strategic content cases. She participates in corporate governance issues and complex negotiations in Uruguay and internationally. She also leads the Labor, Social Security and Migration practice area and the Human Health team, and collaborates especially on the development of women at the firm.In addition to her professional activity, Raffo is a referent on entrepreneurship and gender issues. In that connection she is an affiliate of the Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises Mondiales world organization and since 2012 has been FCEM Commissioner for Latin America. She was President of the Organization of Businesswomen of Uruguay (2010-2016).She is a member of the Advisory Board of Más Emprendedoras, a program jointly executed by MIF IDB and ENDEAVOR that seeks to promote development of women-led enterprises. She represents Uruguay to Vital Voices –founded by Hillary Clinton- and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Raffo advises international corporations such as Abbott, Lloyds Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, IBM, Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser, Nielsen, Metlife, DirecTV, Nestlé, Harvard, Tupperware, and frequently works jointly with regional and international law firms.Chambers has ranked Raffo as Leading Individual, Band 1, in its publications since 2009. It notes that “she is an extraordinary lawyer who is always ready to share her vision; her knowledge is superlative”.Legal 500 Latin America regards her in their latest publication as an expert with “strong communication and negotiation skills.”

Listed skills include Cyrus, Nielsen, and Credit.