Education 

Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with a Universidad de los Andes specialization in Business Law.

 

Professional Experience 

More than 20 years’ experience in business, procedural, and financial law in lawyers’ firms and in the real sector. Has acted as the director of the financial law area and has led the commercial and procedural law areas of various lawyers’ firms. Has advised natural and legal persons from various national and international sectors regarding commercial, corporate, and civil issues. Broad experience in the negotiation, structuring, and interpretation of all types of agreements and contracting policies and in issuing legal opinions regarding their practices and their participation in corporate operations, including the creation, merger, spinoff, acquisition, and liquidation of companies. Has actively participated in due diligence processes. Has advised financial and trust entities and has provided assistance in the structuring of trust deals.

An attorney in civil, administrative, contentious administrative, arbitration, and insolvency processes. Attorney for more than 900 affected persons in various intervention and liquidation processes involving massive illegal amounts of money before the Superintendence of Companies. Was included until December 2018 in the Bogota Chamber of Commerce list of arbitrators and acted as Secretary in various arbitration proceedings. Arbitrator in List B of the Superintendence of Companies, in the business law specialty.

Was assistant teacher in the Obligations 2 module of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Faculty of Law during four and a half years; participated in the collective book “Corporate Insolvency: New Instruments for the Crisis”, with the article “Temporary Amendments to Law 1116 of 2006″, Tirant lo Blanch, Bogotá 2020.

Idiomas 

Spanish, English.