Karen Ortega
Professional area
Professional profile
Karen is a Corporate and compliance lawyer, with majors in commercial law institutions and business law.
She has more than 15 years of experience in law firms and professional services firms, maily focused on structuring and developing mergers and acquisitions, corporate regularizations and corporate restructures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, corporate governance, as well as providing corporate, contractual and compliance advice related to antitrust, anti-money laundering, personal data protection and anti-corruption matters.
Experience
Karen has participated in relevant transactions in different sectors and industries, such as the sale of leading companies in the local market.
She has also advised clients on the design, draft and implementation of corporate governance, compliance programs, codes of ethics, specific policies, privacy notices, training and evaluations regarding antitrust, personal data protection and anti-corruption matters, to business consortiums, companies in different industries, services providers and startups.
Education
- Universidad Panamericana, JD.
- Master’s Degree in Public Image Engineering, Colegio de Imagen Pública.
- Specialization in Corporate Law, Universidad Panamericana.
- Specialization in Commercial Law Institutions, Universidad Panamericana.
- Diploma in Corporate Governance, Center for Excellence in Corporate Governance.
- Diploma in Anti-Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, and Compliance, Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa (ANADE).
- Diploma in Cybersecurity and Personal Data Protection, UDLAP Jenkins Graduate School.
- Diploma in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
Languages
- Spanish
- English