Alejandro Nino

Experience

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  Estudio Beccar Varela

  Jun 1988 - Sept 1995

  • Junior Associate

    Jan 1993 - Sept 1995

  • Librarian

    Jun 1988 - Dec 1992
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  Baker & McKenzie

  Sept 1995 - Jul 1996

  Associate
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  SC Johnson

  May 1997 - Aug 1997

  Summer Intern
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  Clifford Chance US LLP

  Sept 1997 - Jun 2004

  Senior Associate

  Worked in the corporate and securities law practice group with emphasis on cross-border and international corporate finance transactions.• Represented issuers and underwriters for debt and equity transactions in the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and France.• Advised U.S. and Argentine borrowers in the establishment of credit facilities.• Served as counsel to investment banks and venture capital funds for U.S. corporate financings and acquisitions.

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  Citigroup

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2008

  Director, Senior Regional Counsel

  Served as Senior Regional Counsel for Citigroup in Latin America and the Caribbean to provide banking (corporate and consumer), lending, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions for all Citigroup businesses in the region in an effort to mitigate legal/regulatory and franchise risks. Managed the day-to-day legal affairs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.• Managed the structuring and execution of sensitive and complex transactions including, (internal strategic mergers and acquisitions and divestitures, capital markets, restructurings, structured finance, derivatives, tax sensitive, asset based and acquisition finance) in order to support the business goals while mitigating potential risks to the corporation.• Coordinated the due diligence, acquisition and integration of two Billion-dollar transactions of large regional banks across Central America.• Developed legal strategy in connection with significant litigation and regulatory matters affecting the corporation and its officers. Show less

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  RSA

  Sept 2008 - Jul 2016

  General Counsel Latin America

  Served as General Counsel and Head of Regulatory Compliance. Directly reported to CEO-Latin America with a functional relationship to the Global General Counsel. Managed the day-to-day legal affairs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. Oversaw team of 25 attorneys.• Served as Board Member of RSA Seguros Chile S.A.• Established and built a high-quality legal team following the re-structuring of the regional operations. Hired staff, brought significant work in-house and realigned the provision of work to outside counsel.• Partnered with business leaders in developing and executing short and long-range development strategies for the region, including the acquisition and integration of two companies in Argentina, and the divestiture of the Dutch Caribbean business.• Successfully led the sale of the Latin American businesses to Grupo Sura and the closure of the Regional Office. Show less

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  FinConecta

  Jul 2016 - Sept 2017

  Co-Founder and COO

  Co-founded FinConecta to support Financial Institutions in their digital transformation journey. We are creating an interconnected network of modern Financial Institutions and FinTech solutions from around the world linked through a proprietary platform. We are building the first global integrated FinTech marketplace.

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  Uber

  Sept 2017 - now

  Director, Global Insurance, LATAM

  Responsible for creating insurance solutions for the leading name in the sharing economy while mitigating legal and regulatory risk and championing regulations that account for innovative business models across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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  Bullfrog Ventures

  Oct 2017 - now

  Board Member

  Bullfrog Ventures is an Innovations Incubator and Consulting firm focusing on Strategy, Processes, and Capabilities to deliver business efficiencies and growth. Our first product “Risk+”, was nominated as a Canadian Fintech of the Year 2016.