Attorney at Law

Dra. Sofía Milsev

Sofía Milsev coordinates the Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering team. She advises companies of the financial and non-financial sector, in the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing field, aiming at designing and elaborating policies and processes appropriate to each client’s business profile, as well as providing advice for the implementation thereof.

In the financial regulation field, she carries out the required steps to obtain authorizations from the Central Bank of Uruguay. Sofía provides ongoing advice to companies of the sector, from both a regulatory and a strategic perspective. She performs the duties of Personal Data Protection Officer providing advice as regards implementation of policies and processes, analysis of specific cases while acting as a link with the regulatory agency.

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Experience

Sofía has significant experience in regulatory, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing advisory practice. She has worked both as in-house corporate attorney at law and as external consultant in the financial sector.

She has a well proven track record in negotiations related to civil and contract liability claims, in litigation strategies and coordination of external consultant teams. She has designed and implemented AML/CTF policies as well as third-party policies and personal data protection policies. She has implemented policies regarding contracts and has managed the stock of corporate contracts.

She has effectively represented companies of the financial and non-financial sector during negotiations with regulatory agencies.

Practice Focus

She focuses her practice on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, in the fields of financial regulations and personal data protection.

She concentrates on the analysis, implementation and advisory practice of policies considering for the financial sector applicable regulations and according to each client’s business model. She helps companies in the design and implementation from a strategic point of view of AML/CTF policies and personal data protection policies.

Furthermore, she produces solutions for the purposes of adapting new business models to the applicable regulations, especially as regards new technologies.

Education

• Post-Graduate in Corporate Advisory Practice, Universidad de Montevideo.
• Doctor of Law and Social Sciences, Universidad de la República.
• Graduate Certificate in Personal Data Protection, Thomson Reuters.

Academic Activity

• Professor-Facilitator of the Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing of the Universidad Católica.

Publications

Author and coauthor of several articles published in journals and books both in Uruguay and abroad. The following are noteworthy:
• “Smart Contracts, su relación con los contratos” (“Desafíos Jurídicos ante la Digitalización”. Universidad de Montevideo).
• “Las nuevas tecnologías ¬financieras o Fintech y su impacto en el trabajo” (“As novas relacoes trabalhistas e o futuro do direito do trabalho”).
• “Delegado de Protección de Datos – Regulación, posición y principales características” (CADE Journal: Doctrine and Case Law)