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María Hernández

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Languages: Spanish, English, French and Italian.

María Hernández is Managing Partner of the Compliance Practice area at Eversheds Sutherland and Chair of the LatAm Alliance Compliance Committee of Eversheds Sutherland International.
Before joining the Firm in 2014, she spent 18 years in-house, managing legal and compliance departments at international level.
  • Ranked in Chambers Europe and Best Lawyer for consecutive years (last one 2023).
  • Best Compliance Team of the Year, Leaders League 2023.
  • The Compliance Expert Excellence, Leaders League 2022.
  • 2018, 2019 & 2022 InspiraLaw Top 50 Women Lawyer.
  • 2014 Golden Awards – Compliance Counsel of the Year.
  • 2011 Forty under 40 Awards - Best corporate lawyer under 40.
  • Ombudsman with global Compliance responsibility of the Tyco International Group (NYSE), reporting to the Board of Directors Audit Committee of the parent company, with its headquarters in the US (at that time, Tyco negotiated settlement with DoJ and SEC on FCPA alleged violations).
  • Chief Compliance Counsel and General Counsel Europe of Pentair Group (NYSE).
  • Director of the Legal and Compliance departments for Southern Europe and the Middle East operations at Tyco International (NYSE).
  • Director of the Legal department for the South of Europe operations of Nortel Networks.
  • Master’s degree in law and Economics of the European Union, Sorbonne University in Paris.
  • Law degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with a Legal-Community specialization, Universidad CEU San Pablo de Madrid.
  • B20 Saudi Arabia (2020) and B20 Italy (2021) Integrity & Compliance Task Force Elected Member (G20) (100 elected worldwide).
  • Elected Member of the Committee of Women Leaders of the Americas (an initiative of the Organization of American States and Documentation Science Foundation).
  • Academic Director of the Global Corporate Compliance (LLM) Master at IE Law School, in collaboration with New York University and professor of Corporate Compliance at Deusto Business School, U. Complutense de Madrid and ESADE.
  • Co-Founder and co-President of the Compliance Section of the Madrid Bar Association (until August 2018).
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Institute of Compliance Officers.
María Hernández

Partner

Partner-Compliance Department

María Hernández

Partner

Partner-Compliance Department

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