LEÓN FELIPE BANEGAS RUIZ
IT Lawyer/ Corporate And Compliance Lawyer / PMO
Mexico City,CMX
Summary
Organized and results-oriented Legal Manager with more than 15 years of industry experience. Skilled in optimizing workplace coordination for compliance with state law and regulatory requirements. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Im a highly motivated, detail oriented lawyer with a vast experience in law consulting for IT projects and private clients, with an emphasis in audits, compliances , legal research, work planning and front service. My experience includes risk management, contract administration, public and private compliance, contract drafting. I possess a strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects while ensuring accuracy and thoroughness. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in both English and Spanish.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Legal Manager / Cofounder
Laernian Operations
07.2024 - Current
- Provide strategic legal advice on a broad range of issues, including intellectual property, data privacy, compliance, and contract negotiation
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our innovations are legally sound and align with regulatory standards
- Anticipate and mitigate potential legal risks
- Resulting in contracts with realistics ROW/SOW ratios
Associate Service Director
Viemendiato
07.2023 - 06.2024
- Corporate Compliance and Compliance with project execution
- Quality management
- Risk management, Procurement
- Task management, Task analysis
- Project delivery
- Cascade project management, Review and preparation and Monitoring of public and private contracts
- Legal representation before authorities
- In house lawyer, coordination with their branches
- Provide compliance in house directives
- Conducted legal research and drafted contracts, briefs, and other legal documents
- Maintaining reliable relationships with clients and ensuring successful and affordable contract life cycles and renewals
- Resulting in contracts with realistics ROW/SOW ratios
Founding Member
Quintero Banegas S.C.
10.2020 - 09.2023
- Provide first contact with civil, family and corporate clients, providing emphatic approaches that will lead to strategic planning and litigation
- Participate in private mediations and ensured compliance with all due diligence requirements when requested by clients
- Maintaining reliable relationships with clients and ensuring successful and affordable resolutions of legal and paralegal issues
- Resulting in meetings where realistics scenarios, time tables and budgets were given to the clients as also, alternate means of justice were presented
- Litigation (planning, executing and overseeing) legal consulting in commercial, civil administrative (goberment relations) and family matters
- Preparation and review of contracts to ensure compliance, renewal and termination thereof
- Regulatory analysis and evaluation of legal risk in various scenarios
- Strategic planning based on risks, guaranteeing the proper direction of the company
- Administrative governance of the company
Senior Lawyer
RRsol Consultoria Global S.A. de C.V.
11.2018 - 04.2020
- Provided in-house legal counsel to software and IT company
- Managed governmental relations and ensured compliance with all due diligence requirements
- Conducted legal research and drafted contracts, briefs, and other legal documents
- Crafted legal and business documents for private and government biddings
- Generating reports in order to assess the legal wellness of the company and its performance
- Building with the decision makers a legal structure for the optimization of procedures and attention to legal matters which resulted in the optimization of internal and external contracts and charters, leading to better rois in the projects
- Review, preparation and monitoring of public and private contracts
- Participation in tenders, ensuring the presentation of competitive proposals
- Writing progress reports to evaluate the effectiveness of the legal strategies implemented
- Legal structuring for the optimization of procedures and attention to legal matters
- File and legal representation before authorities to defend the interests of the company
- Collaboation with the areas, managing legal administration and processes
Legal Consultant
Servicios, Tecnología y Organización, S.A. de C.V.
08.2017 - 11.2018
- Provided in-house legal counsel to software and IT company
- Managed governmental relations and ensured compliance with all due diligence requirements
- Conducted legal research and drafted contracts, briefs, and other legal documents
- Crafted legal and business documents for private and government biddings
- Generating reports in order to assess the legal wellness of the company and its performance
- Building with the decision makers a legal structure for the optimization of procedures and attention to legal matters which resulted in the optimization of internal and external contracts and charters, leading to better rois in the projects
- Review, preparation and monitoring of public and private contracts
- Participation in tenders, ensuring the presentation of competitive proposals
- Writing progress reports to evaluate the effectiveness of the legal strategies implemented
- Legal structuring for the optimization of procedures and attention to legal matters
- File and legal representation before authorities to defend the interests of the company
- Collaboation with the areas, managing legal administration and processes
Subdirector of Law Compliance
Secretaría de Educación Publica Federal
01.2013 - 05.2017
- Administration of contracts in the area of IT
- Compliance with established regulations and standards by the authorities
- Planning and execution of litigious mediation processes before the Ministry of Public Function
- Monitoring of governance in contracts in IT related areas
- Worked on field, listening to the taskers and PM and PMO on their daily challenges with the client/government stakeholders creating common grounds and mediation between interests; which diffused a crisis between client and company
- Builded a communication channel between the stakeholders, the PMO and the taskers in order to synchronize views, expertises, goals and metrics to what is legally bidding in terms of Mexican law, resulting in a contract and budget extension on the project of 20% without penalties for the client
- Compliance with the regulations and standards established by the authorities as also collaboration with audits
- Planning and execution of conciliation processes before the Ministry of Public Administration
- Monitoring of governance in information technology contracts
Education
J.D. - Law
Universidad De Negocios Isec
05.2020 - 05.2023
Professional Certificate - Project Management
Google
05.2001 -
Skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent analytical experience
Organizational skills
Team Player
Problem identification and resolution
Strategic risk management
Analysis
Regulatory development
Conflict resolution
Litigation
Contract negotiation
Planning and execution of conciliation processes
Understanding of ICTs
Effective legal representation
Effective communication with authorities
Leadership
Administration of companies
Strategic consulting
Legal consulting
Contract law
Legal writing
Legal analysis
Legal research
Agreement negotiation
Contract drafting
Legal counseling
Document review
Real estate transactions
Strategic planning
Dispute resolution
Litigation management
Corporate governance
Compliance
Employment law
Strategy development
Facilitating coordination
Contracts
Teamwork
Legal advising
Teamwork and collaboration
Problem-solving
Case presentation
Client confidentiality
Legal document preparation
Decision-making
Self motivation
Adaptability and flexibility
Verbal and written communication
Critical thinking
Certification
Scrum Fundamentals Certified, ScrumStudy
Contactsummary
Detail-oriented and highly organized lawyer with vast experience in law consulting for IT projects and private clients, with an emphasis in audits, compliance, legal research, work planning, and front service. My experience includes risk management, contract administration, public and private compliance, and contract drafting. I possess a strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects while ensuring accuracy and thoroughness. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in both English and Spanish.
Timeline
Senior Legal Manager / Cofounder
Laernian Operations
07.2024 - Current
Associate Service Director
Viemendiato
07.2023 - 06.2024
Founding Member
Quintero Banegas S.C.
10.2020 - 09.2023
J.D. - Law
Universidad De Negocios Isec
05.2020 - 05.2023
Senior Lawyer
RRsol Consultoria Global S.A. de C.V.
11.2018 - 04.2020
Legal Consultant
Servicios, Tecnología y Organización, S.A. de C.V.
08.2017 - 11.2018
Subdirector of Law Compliance
Secretaría de Educación Publica Federal
01.2013 - 05.2017
Professional Certificate - Project Management
Google
05.2001 -