Melina Llodrá
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 3 : Compliance
About
Provided by Melina Llodrá
Practice Areas
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.
Career
Melina Llodrá is the founder of the firm. 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.
Professional Memberships
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).
Publications
Author of several publications on compliance matters, construction/infrastructure and energy.
Personal
Languages: Spanish, English, French. CCEP-I (Corporate compliance expert international), LLM from UIUC, US.
Articles, highlights and press releases
6 items provided by LLODRÁ Law
The German Supply Chain Act: Challenges and opportunities for LATAM companies
By Melina Llodrá and Maria Florencia Romariz Adopted by the Bundestag (German parliament) in June 2021, the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Supply Chain Act) came into force on January 1, 2023.[1] The Supply Chain Act requires supply chain due diligence regarding human rights and environment-relate
Due diligence corporate sustainability: challenges and opportunities for LATAM companies
By Melina Llodrá y María Florencia Romariz Supply chains, the arteries of global commerce, have empowered businesses, especially multinational corporations. However, this expansion has also exposed vulnerabilities, including human rights violations and environmental damage. In today's interconnecte
Data privacy protection in internal investigations in LATAM
By Melina Llodrá and Julieta D'Angelo Internal investigations are key to ensuring an efficient compliance program. If an alleged infraction arises, the organization may need to launch an internal investigation, and protecting data privacy is one of the most challenging aspects to tackle.
Conducting internal investigation interviews in Latin America: DOs and DON’Ts
Interviews are a key element of internal investigations. This article highlights the challenges that may be faced when conducting interviews in Latin America and some key DOs and DON'Ts
Dos and Don’ts when conducting cross-border internal investigations in Latin America
Conducting cross-border internal investigations is not an easy task as it is exposed to several challenges. This article highlights what to consider when conducting a cross-border investigation involving Latin America.
Effective third-party due diligence in Latin America
This article highlights common challenges when conducting third-party due diligence in Latin America and the best practices to face them.
The German Supply Chain Act: Challenges and opportunities for LATAM companies
By Melina Llodrá and Maria Florencia Romariz Adopted by the Bundestag (German parliament) in June 2021, the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Supply Chain Act) came into force on January 1, 2023.[1] The Supply Chain Act requires supply chain due diligence regarding human rights and environment-relate
Due diligence corporate sustainability: challenges and opportunities for LATAM companies
By Melina Llodrá y María Florencia Romariz Supply chains, the arteries of global commerce, have empowered businesses, especially multinational corporations. However, this expansion has also exposed vulnerabilities, including human rights violations and environmental damage. In today's interconnecte
Data privacy protection in internal investigations in LATAM
By Melina Llodrá and Julieta D'Angelo Internal investigations are key to ensuring an efficient compliance program. If an alleged infraction arises, the organization may need to launch an internal investigation, and protecting data privacy is one of the most challenging aspects to tackle.
Conducting internal investigation interviews in Latin America: DOs and DON’Ts
Interviews are a key element of internal investigations. This article highlights the challenges that may be faced when conducting interviews in Latin America and some key DOs and DON'Ts
Dos and Don’ts when conducting cross-border internal investigations in Latin America
Conducting cross-border internal investigations is not an easy task as it is exposed to several challenges. This article highlights what to consider when conducting a cross-border investigation involving Latin America.
Effective third-party due diligence in Latin America
This article highlights common challenges when conducting third-party due diligence in Latin America and the best practices to face them.