Leopoldo Hernández Romano

Partner

Kerma Partners

He is a Managing Partner of KermaPartners, leading the practice for Hispanic markets. Based in Mexico City, Leopoldo primarily advises law firms on strategic planning and implementation, organizational structure transformation projects, partner and attorney compensation schemes, as well as corporate governance issues. Leopoldo is also an advisor to Ibero-American and Latin American alliances in their strategies for positioning and retaining talent.

For seven years he was the founding partner and director of the firm HernándezRomano Consultores, S.C. Prior to the constitution of his consultancy, Leopoldo was the COO for the Mexico office of one of the top 10 New York law firms, being in charge of financial, administrative, human resources and IT matters. Previously, he worked for more than 12 years in one of the main cotton trading companies in Latin America, having served as Secretary of the Board and Commercial Director.

Leopoldo is a qualified attorney and holds an MBA. Since 1994, he has been a professor at the Universidad Panamericana School of Law in Mexico City, where he has taught International Trade, International Commercial Arbitration and Firm Management. He has served as Secretary, Deputy Coordinator and Coordinator of the Commission for the Administration of Law Firms of the Mexican Bar Association, A.C., where he has also served as a member of the Board of Directors.

Leopoldo is an active member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and participates in the Management Committee of Law Firms in the Talent and Leadership working group. He was a founding member of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), Mexico Chapter. Since 2016, he was invited to be a member of the Board of Appleseed Mexico.

He makes periodical publications and presentations on strategy and law firm management.

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