Jorge Martinez Sanche coleads the CMI Corporate office and leads the areas that ensure the Corporation’s institutionality and proper governance (Ethics & Values, Compliance, Corporate Affairs and Sustainibility, Audit, Legal and Analysis and Information Security).
Jorge Martínez Sanche is an attorney at law graduated from Universidad Rafael Landívar. He obtained a Legum Magister in Finances from Universidad Francisco Marroquín’s Business School and completed a Management Program for Lawyers at Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
He was a professor at Universidad Rafael Landívar and Universidad del Istmo for 8 years, having contributed to the education of new generations of lawyers in Guatemala. Currently, he partners in the law firm QIL + 4 Abogados in Guatemala.
Thanks to his solid experience, Jorge Martínez Sanche has led the development of negotiation strategies for corporate matters and transactions. He has also participated in implementing corporate structures in Guatemala and abroad, carefully considering tax implications and efficient decision-making processes.
As the legal leader at CMI, he has championed an important transformation process. With a vision set in the future, he successfully brought the legal area close to the different business units of the corporation, following a prevention and pro-business approach.
Jorge Martinez Sanche’s solid experience also includes mechanisms, processes and relations regarding corporate control and direction, governance structures, monitoring and decision-making processes. He has worked to develop corporate governance standards and both local and international applicable regulations, as well as to provide advice in litigations, strategic planning, negotiation and conflict resolution.
His expertise in international transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions of foreign companies in Latin America and Europe, have been a valuable contribution to CMI over the years.
