Melina Llodrá

Compliance, cross-border investigations and best practice risk and compliance management. International commercial contracts, corporate and commercial law including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions. Main sectors of activity include energy, construction/infrastructure, transport, life sciences and biotechnology, agro, information technology and telecommunications.

Melina Llodrá is the founder of Llodrá Law. She has +20 years of experience in international business law, including negotiation and drafting of cross-border contracts. She regularly assists in complex compliance projects, focusing on internal investigations, design, implementation and management of compliance programs and best practice risk and compliance management. Melina specializes in the fight against corruption and the prevention, detection and remediation of acts of corruption. She delivers tailored executive compliance trainings to managers and executives of organizations in Latin America. Before founding the firm, she worked for +10 years as senior counsel at LALIVE (Geneva, Switzerland) leading complex cross-border compliance matters, and as inhouse senior counsel at McKinsey for Latam negotiating anf drafting international commercial contracts.

She is an Argentinean lawyer, LLM University of Illinois (US). She has attained professional qualifications on international compliance (CCEP-I), certified by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (US) and is a certified expert on auditing ISO 37001.

She is also a guest lecturer at the Fribourg University School of Law, Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Cross-Cultural Business Practice on Business Ethics and International Joint Ventures, Agency and Distributorship contracts, and speaker at international conferences on anticorruption, compliance and international contracts.

The International Bar Association (Compliance committee officer), the Society of Corporate, Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), the Swiss Argentine Chamber of Commerce (member of Compliance Committee), the Argentinean Compliance & Ethics Association (AAEC) and the Rosario Bar Association (Argentina).

Author of several publications on compliance matters, construction/infrastructure and energy.