An ad in the Miami Herald changed the course of Arnaldo Perez’s career in 1992. It advertised an in-house assistant counsel position at Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest cruise operator. Perez replied to the ad, interviewed with the company, and got the job. Nearly 18 years later, Perez is still at Carnival Corporation, only now he’s senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the Miami-based global cruise company. “Responding to that ad was one of the best decisions I ever made,” says Perez, 49.
After earning a degree in accounting from the University of Miami and a J.D. from Columbia University, the Cuban native, who moved to the United States when he was six months old, started his legal career as a corporate transactions associate at Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey. In response to what Perez calls the “infamous implosion” of that firm, which went bankrupt and dissolved in 1987, he jumped to Baker & McKenzie, and then to a small Miami firm named Weil, Lucio, Mandler, Croland & Steele. He was at Weil, Lucio when he read the newspaper ad.
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