Guillermo E. Larrea
Jones Day
About
Guillermo Larrea leads Jones Day's Latin American Compliance practice. He has a highly regarded reputation from high-profile investigations, which has developed into a full Digital Compliance Practice. He advises Fortune 500 companies on investigations and evaluations related to corruption, money laundering, data management, cyber-incidents, and crypto-related projects. His practice covers corporate governance, anti-corruption, privacy, and cybersecurity, and is developing further in blockchain and cryptocurrency, reaching into compliance, regulatory, privacy, and anti-money laundering investigations. He has experience collaborating with authorities and investigating corruption allegations under Latin American national anti-corruption systems and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He advises boards of directors and audit committees on strategic planning, crisis management, fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, and data preservation. He has addressed data-driven concerns around data processing, cross-border transfers of data, data breach incident-response, cloud computing, digital platform development for e-commerce, and technologies such as IoT, FinTech, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies, with emphasis on security and compliance obligations. Guillermo has been a key figure in changing the compliance culture in the Latin American region.