Eduardo Agulla Bertola

Ambar Partners is the best community of top-tier independent lawyers with extensive experience at the best law firms and international companies. As a consultant Expert on Integrity, Compliance, Risk and Governance, I am a freelancer Ambar partner for local and foreign markets on assignments supporting clients in relation to all type of compliance topics.

Freelance Consultant Expert on Integrity, Compliance, Risk and Governance, at Global Compliance and Business Ethics Services consulting company, based in Paris in domestic and international markets for private and public actors on various missions, such as: Designing, evaluating and improving compliance programs: governance´s system, codes of conduct, risk mapping, policies and procedures, ethical alert system, implementation of third-party management programs, design and conduct of training sessions Supporting the transformation of the Compliance and Ethics functions and steering compliance and ethics projects. Carrying out compliance´s audits in the lights of anti-corruption laws (Sapin 2, FCPA, UK Bribery Act, sanctions, etc.), or other specific regulations in order to verify the effectiveness of the compliance system and detect risky transactions as well as interacting with regulatory bodies like Agence Française Anticorruption (AFA) or Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), when required. Investigations in the context of fraud or corruption, drafting of reports that can be produced in court Conducting compliance due diligence in the context of merger and acquisition operations, both pre- and post-acquisition, and carrying out background checks on third parties in order to highlight integrity and compliance risks.

Chief Compliance Officer of Alstom Transport worldwide within the Group Legal Department at Corporate level, based in Paris area, and reporting directly to the Group SVP Ethics & Compliance, and functionally to the General Counsel. Alstom SA is a € 8 billion global business operating in more than 70 countries (35.000 employees) in rail transport markets, locomotives, signaling, and passenger transportation (TGV, Eurostar, Pendolino high speed train, tramways, suburban, regional and metro trains). The Chief Compliance Officer role included fostering a positive integrity culture at all levels and identifying potential areas of ethics and compliance vulnerability and risk, thereby ensuring, through the implementation of the Alstom Code of Ethics and the Alstom Integrity Program, that day-to-day business is conducted in a proper and ethical manner in order to prevent corruption, breaches of competition law and conflicts of interest, fraud, and being involved in Due Diligence processes to provide efficient valuation and mitigation of risks. The position covered as well advising on ethics & Compliance related matters at all levels of the most senior governance ranks, including boards, committees, and executive management, working closely with senior teams in charge of internal audit, tender control, risk assessment, and integrity investigations and making recommendations and assisting in the drafting of improvement of Code of Ethics, rules and instructions.

Business Development Manager, Alstom Power S.A. Business development strategy and analysis on Spanish and Latin-American electricity markets, specially focusing on the Spanish companies operating in Latin America, working with multicultural transverse teams and supporting customer managers Madrid, Spain, 2006/2009.

General Coordinator for Programs and Projects with International Financing at the National Secretariat of Transport reporting to the Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services Ministry of the National Executive branch, (external loans from international entities, presentation and follow up of the execution of the projects specially financed by the World Bank, BNDES, Corporación Andina de Fomento and American Development Bank, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004/2005.

Attorney at Law at Agulla, Tagle & Associates 1989/2005, criminal, labor, and civil cases, and Law Professor heading the chair of research methodology of law at the Law and Social Sciences Faculty, Catholic University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina, 1995/2005. The role was to teach law student how to work on the legal research field through the different methodologies and approaches, such as positivist methodology, empirical methodology (quantitative or qualitative: surveys, interviews, focus groups, participant observation, etc.), methodological pluralism, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches, etc., as well as to show students how to reformulate a legal research problem by explaining the chosen research method and providing descriptions for unusual approaches in order to systematically help them to develop their research skills, and to guide them through the writing process, both in terms of their projects and of academic standards.

Chief of Staff at the National Secretariat of Transport, reporting to the Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services Ministry of the National Executive branch (coordination tasks for the transport, non centralized entities, ministries, and other areas of the National Executive branch, as well as institutional relations with the different powers of the Nation, provinces and local governments. Supervision of the development and execution of the different projects with the provided resources coming from the National budget or with the economic aid from international entities. Project preparation of decrees, laws, agreements, administrative contracts, tenders, and concessions. Coordination of the budget preparation and the management related to human resources), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003/2004.

Coordinating General Director of the Ministry of the Education of Cordoba, Argentina (Supervision tasks and coordination of the legal, human resources, administration and budgeting areas. Deputy responsible for the supervision and execution of international loans related to the Inter-American Development Bank and to the World Bank in education programs. Cordoba, Argentina, 1999/2003.

Advisor of the Presidency of the Honorable Constituent Convention of the Province of Cordoba, and writer for the Text Commission of the Honorable Constituent Convention of the Province of Cordoba, September 2001, Cordoba, Argentina. Regarding advisory tasks as advisor during the constituent process, main achievements were to help the presidency of the Constituent Assembly to coordinate the discussion, debate, and drafting of the provincial constitution, and providing final technical approval prior to adoption and publication.