FERRERE

Counsel

Carla Arellano

Carla Arellano advises family companies and is an expert in compliance, anticorruption and best know-your-client practices.

Carla Arellano leads the FERRERE Regional Compliance team and is a member of the firm’s Corporate group, specializing in compliance, anticorruption, know-your-client/supplier best practices, and prevention of asset laundering and terrorism financing.

She is certified in prevention of asset laundering and terrorism financing by ISEDE (School of Business of Universidad Católica), in Compliance by Thomson Reuters (LATAM Compliance Diploma), in anticorruption by American University Washington College of Law (US & International Anti-Corruption Law), and in Ethics and Compliance by IFCA (International Federation of Compliance Associations).

She participates in the working group organized by the National Secretariat for Prevention of Asset Laundering and Terrorism Financing (SENACLAFT) for corporate services providers in Uruguay. At regional level she is a founder of the Compliance Latam Platform, and is a member of the working group organized as the Latin American Compliance & Investigation League (LACIL).

Her experience includes preparing, updating and monitoring compliance programs, including, among other elements, preparation of manuals, policies, risk matrices, codes of ethics, and training programs on best practices, local rules and foreign rules effective extraterritorially. She has directed and participated in internal investigations and legal and anticorruption due diligence procedures.

She heads up certification in prevention of asset laundering and terrorism financing at Universidad ORT. On compliance issues, she is coauthor of the book “250 questions on director and manager liability” (250 preguntas sobre responsabilidad de directores y gerentes), author of numerous publications, and participates as panelist in national and international conferences.

Memberships

  • Uruguayan Bar Association
  • International Bar Association
  • Vital Voices
  • Vance Center
  • Trace / Anti-bribery Business Association
  • Programa Sembrando
  • Attorney, Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 2001.
  • Mergers and acquisitions, Georgetown University Law School (USA), 2010.
13/11/2024
Regional

FERRERE will host first Compliance Latam Forum 2024

The upcoming regional event will be held on Wednesday, December 4, in Montevideo.

29/04/2024
Uruguay

Summary of activities and sanctions applied by SENACLAFT during 2023

SENACLAFT imposed 50 sanctions, including 16 warnings, 20 observations and 14 fines.

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