Johanna Cajigas > DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán Offices
CARRERA 7 NO 71-21
TORRE B OF 602
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Johanna Cajigas
Work Department
Energy & Natural Resources- Oil & Gas
Position
Johanna is a Partner in the Oil & Gas practice area.
Career
She has more than 18 years of experience advising in regards to legal and regulatory issues in the hydrocarbons sector, such as natural gas, GLP, liquid fuels, and crude oil. She has had practice regarding the follow-up of exploration and production obligations with the National Hydrocarbons Agency and the Ministry of Mines and Energy. Throughout her career, she has participated in the structuring of important natural gas and GLP commercialization projects, supporting the main international companies with a presence in Colombia, as well as in the regulatory structuring of important natural gas infrastructure projects.
Before joining DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán, Johanna managed the Oil & Gas practice area in an important Law firm with an Ibero-American presence, specializing in hydrocarbons, residential public utilities, energy and natural resources. She also worked in the real sector of natural gas distribution and in the public sector as an advisor to the Superintendent of Public Utilities.
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
- Master’s Degree in Economic Public Law, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
- Postgraduate Degree in Public Services Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia)
- Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Energy and natural resources
(Next Generation Partners)An increasingly prominent player in the energy market, DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán
’s practice secured 13 new clients during 2022/23, including PowerChina International Group, CarbonFree Technology and Intercolombia. The group ‘strives to truly meet customer needs’, according to sources, and possesses experience along the full energy chain, including regulatory, transactional and contentious matters. A former legal director of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Lucas Arboleda was promoted to partner in January 2023; he is valued for his ‘great knowledge on energy regulatory issues’. José Miguel Mendoza specialises in corporate conflicts and energy and natural resources work and co-heads the department alongside Arboleda. In February 2023, energy and infrastructure partner Paola Aldana left to become an independent advisor, but the firm has since hired Johanna Cajigas -formerly associate director of the hydrocarbons unit at Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría– as director of the firm’s energy practice (effective as of May 2023). Since publication, Cajigas has been promoted to the partnership (effective February 2024).
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Colombia > Energy and natural resources
- Energy and natural resources Colombia