Cristina Vignone is a FERRERE counsel and leads the firm’s Environmental Law practice. She is also part of the Corporate & Commercial and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups. Her practice also includes Administrative and Regulatory Law.
On a day-to-day basis she assists corporate clients on negotiation and preparation of complex contracts and on regulatory and administrative matters with the government in different sectors such as forestry, energy, construction, advertising and technology. She also heads up due diligence work teams for acquisitions, corporate restructurings and mergers.
For over twenty years Cristina has advised international corporations such as ExxonMobil, IBM, Tupperware, JCDecaux, Sabre, Weyerhaeuser and TYPSA in Uruguay.
As leader of the Environmental Law practice she has conducted due diligence procedures on environmental regulatory compliance of large-scale projects, and regularly advises local and multinational companies on queries in this area. She was in charge of the Weyerhaeuser environmental due diligence procedure for the sale of its forestry operations in Uruguay for over USD 400 million.
She is president of Deres, the business network for promotion of sustainable development in Uruguay, for the 2024-2026 period, and is a member of the Environmental Law Commission of the Uruguayan Bar Association.
She has authored various publications in her area. Her master’s thesis on Administrative Contracting Procedures was published as a book (co-authored). For several years she was an instructor in Civil Private Law (Obligations and Contracts) at the Law School of Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and taught courses in Corporate Law at Universidad ORT (Uruguay).
Memberships
- Uruguayan Bar Association