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Catalina Arango

Catalina Arango

Catalina Arango is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property and Competition practice at Pérez-Llorca. Since beginning her career in 2005, she has focused on the management and administration of industrial property portfolios in Colombia and abroad, advising clients across diverse sectors on intellectual property regulation, copyright, competition law, and related litigation. She also advises companies on expansion strategies, including franchise models, and provides ongoing support in the structuring and protection of intangible assets. She has provided comprehensive legal support to leading national and international companies. She has advised Disney and TIS Productions on intellectual property matters related to audiovisual productions and supported major corporations such as Bancolombia, Celsia, Almacenes Éxito, and M.P. Galagro in the management of trademark portfolios, copyright protection, and strategies to prevent anticompetitive practices. Her experience includes designing innovation systems, notably for ISA, and implementing Legal Design workshops that integrate user-centred approaches into legal processes.
William Araque

William Araque

William serves as a Of Counsel in the Litigation & Conflict Resolution practice group, with over 42 years’ experience in commercial litigation, arbitration and business law. Araque advises national and international companies on complex commercial contracts, distribution arrangements, Colombian procedural law and dispute resolution, representing clients before ordinary courts and domestic arbitration tribunals. Has participated in more than 75 arbitration proceedings under the rules of the Chambers of Commerce of Bogotá, Medellín and Pereira, involving aggregate claims exceeding USD 2.5 billion. He has represented companies in the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, automotive and commercial sectors in class and group actions, commercial distribution and agency disputes, consumer protection matters, and contractual and non-contractual liability proceedings.
Patricia Arrázola

Patricia Arrázola

Patricia Arrázola-Bustillo is a Partner and Head of the Energy & Natural Resources practice at Pérez-Llorca. Drawing on over three decades of experience, she is recognised as a pivotal advisor in Colombia’s energy and mining sectors, guiding both domestic and international clients on corporate, regulatory, and transactional matters. Her practice encompasses privatisations, acquisitions, project development, and regulatory compliance, combining technical expertise with a strategic business perspective.
Carolina Bobillier

Carolina Bobillier

Carolina Bobillier is a Partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Tax practice. With over two decades of experience, she focuses on estate and wealth tax planning for families, corporate tax structuring, and cross-border asset protection mechanisms. Her work also covers tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, and the structuring of entrepreneurial ventures and startups. In addition, she has developed significant expertise in advising nonprofit organisations, particularly those subject to Colombia’s special tax regime.
Lina Correa

Lina Correa

Lina is Director of Energy & Natural Resources practice. Expert on structure of Colombia’s environmental legal regime, mining and energy project regulation, and environmental oversight. Advises on legal frameworks governing activities impacting environment, environmental legal audits, and interpretation of regulations.   She has led due diligence and legal reviews for acquisitions, concessions, and investments across sectors including infrastructure, energy, mining, manufacturing, and retail. Counselled on environmental matters for Hitachi, Yanbal, Clorox, Cenit, PriceSmart, CMPC, and Cryogas. Participated in major transactions including the acquisition of Zona Franca Celsia by Enfragen and Briceño-Tunja-Sogamoso road concession.
Carlos Vaz De Almeida

Carlos Vaz De Almeida

Carlos joined Pérez-Llorca in 2023 as a Partner to contribute to the international strategy of the firm and is based in Portugal where he is responsible for the Banking, Energy & Infrastructure practice. Before joining Pérez-Llorca, he was a Partner at a reputed Portuguese law firm where he headed the Finance, Energy & Infrastructure practice. Prior to that, he was a senior lawyer in the Banking & Projects department of a Magic Circle law firm with offices in Lisbon and a lawyer in a reputed Iberian law firm. Furthermore, Carlos was also member of the cabinet of the Portuguese Minister of State and Finance and senior consultant at UTAP (the Portuguese Public-Private Partnerships unit).
Álvaro Andrés Díaz

Álvaro Andrés Díaz

Álvaro Andrés Díaz Palacios is a Partner in the Tax department at Pérez-Llorca, where he has been a key figure since 2004. Informed by more than 25 years of experience, he focuses on tax litigation, consulting, and transfer pricing, and represents national and international companies across sectors including telecommunications, construction, infrastructure, and hydrocarbons. He is widely recognised for his ability to handle complex disputes involving both national and local tax authorities. Álvaro has represented clients including Bavaria, Deutsche, Termobarranquilla, Booking, Permoda, Contegral, Enel, and HMV Ingenieros in high-stakes litigation before tax authorities. He has also advised Porvenir and Ritrama on transfer pricing strategies, combining technical precision with a pragmatic approach to minimising tax risks. His practice balances contentious and advisory work, and provides clients with comprehensive strategies in both corporate tax planning and litigation.
Ricardo Fandiño

Ricardo Fandiño

Ricardo Fandiño heads Pérez-Llorca’s Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice in Colombia and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. With nearly three decades of experience, he advises international and domestic banks, financial institutions, corporates, and government entities on financings, capital markets, derivatives, banking and securities regulation, and the structuring and financing of infrastructure and energy projects. Ricardo has acted as lead counsel on many of Colombia’s most significant financial transactions. His mandates include Avianca’s DIP financing and reorganisation plan, Tecnoglass’s listing on NASDAQ, the financing of the BTS toll road concession, and the restructuring of Pacific Rubiales. He advised Bancolombia on the financing of the Santa Marta–Paraguachón concession, supported debt management operations for major financial institutions, and led the refinancing of Bayport Management’s financial liabilities. At Pérez-Llorca, he directed the structuring and implementation of unsolicited tender offers for Grupo Nutresa, Grupo Sura, and Grupo Argos (2021–2023), as well as the negotiation of the 2024 framework agreement between the Gilinski family and IHC Capital Holding LLC. He also advised lenders on a multi-billion-dollar loan to Ecopetrol, in one of the country’s most significant public credit operations.
Pedro Fernández

Pedro Fernández

Pedro Fernández leads the firm’s Venture Capital and Start-up practice. He is one of the most renowned lawyers in the Venture Capital & Start-up sector in Spain. He began advising venture capital funds and start-ups over twenty years ago on re-domestication processes, investment rounds and on general matters relating to the technology sector. He advises the majority of the players in the Spanish market and has extensive experience working with the US market (particularly in Silicon Valley, Miami and NY).
Antoni Frigola

Antoni Frigola

Antoni Frigola is Of Counsel at Pérez-Llorca and is a highly experienced litigation lawyer, with a distinguished career in Spanish courts and in private practice. He has extensive experience in complex litigation, including corporate disputes, directors’ liability proceedings, challenges to corporate resolutions in listed companies and international groups, as well as international arbitration. He also regularly advises and represents airlines in damage claims and has a solid background in insolvency and procedural law matters.
Ana Cristina Jaramillo

Ana Cristina Jaramillo

Ana Cristina Jaramillo Cuéllar is a Partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Corporate and M&A practice, with more than two decades of experience advising on complex corporate and transactional matters in Colombia and internationally. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, and financing, representing private equity funds, multinational corporations, family-owned businesses, and startups. Her dual legal training in Colombia and New York, coupled with her MBA, enables her to combine transactional expertise with a strategic business perspective. Ana Cristina has led significant transactions across a range of industries, including advising JCHX Mining Management on its 50% equity acquisition, Premise Data Corporation on its acquisition of Grupo Meiko, and Grupo Iberoamericano de Fomento on its majority stake acquisition in Greendipity. She has also advised on cross-border transactions for Alta Latin Holdings, Egis Consultoría, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III, and Acon Consumer Finance Holdings. Her ability to manage complex and high-value deals across diverse sectors, furthermore, has been demonstrated in her work on the democratisation of Ecopetrol and the global sale of NEC Corporation’s wireless transport business.
Daniel Londoño

Daniel Londoño

Daniel Londoño Pinzón is a partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice, with more than two decades of experience advising Colombian companies, financial institutions, and multilateral organisations. His practice spans structured financings, debt and equity issuances in domestic and international markets, and the structuring of private equity and private debt funds. He also leads a practice group dedicated to entrepreneurship, with a strong reputation in the fintech market, where he actively supports startups through recognised acceleration programmes. Daniel has served as counsel in a wide range of high-value transactions. His recent work includes advising Grupo Pegasus on the financing of senior living projects, Banco de Bogotá on its first sustainable subordinated bond, and Trafigura on the financing of barges for the Magdalena River. He has represented IFC and IDB Invest in multiple Colombian and cross-border bond issuances, and advised on Banco Davivienda’s AT1 perpetual bond issuance. He has also worked on Advent’s acquisition financing of a stake in OCENSA, credit agreements for Almacenes Éxito, Mercantil Colpatria’s acquisition of Banco Colpatria shares, and the structuring of numerous private equity funds.
Débora Melo Fernandes

Débora Melo Fernandes

Débora joined Pérez-Llorca’s Lisbon office in 2024 as a Public Law and Regulatory partner. Before joining Pérez-Llorca, she served as one of the partners leading the Public Law and Regulatory practice area at a Portuguese law firm. From 2007 to 2020, she worked as an associate in two of the most prestigious teams specializing in Public and Administrative Law in Portugal. During this time, she gained extensive experience dealing with high-end public law and regulatory issues. Débora also worked as a legal advisor to the Minister for Administrative Modernization. Currently, she serves as an arbitrator at the Administrative Arbitration Centre (CAAD).
Andrés Meza

Andrés Meza

Andrés Meza is a Senior Associate in the Technology, Communications, and Data Protection practice at Pérez-Llorca, where he advises local and international companies on transactional and regulatory matters spanning telecommunications, internet, postal services, and television. His practice also covers data protection and cybersecurity compliance across the GDPR, CCPA, and Latin American frameworks, technology licensing and acquisition, and the implementation and development of artificial intelligence tools.
Mauricio Montealegre

Mauricio Montealegre

Mauricio Montealegre is a Partner in the Labour & Employment practice at Pérez-Llorca. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience, he advises national and international companies on the full spectrum of corporate labour law, from drafting employment contracts to resolving complex labour disputes. His practice encompasses collective bargaining and union relationship management, corporate integrations and mergers, compensation planning, executive negotiations, voluntary retirement programmes, workplace investigations, and labour audits, as well as due diligence in transactional contexts.
Adriana Moreno

Adriana Moreno

Adriana Moreno Márquez is a partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice and head of the firm’s Medellín office. With nearly three decades of experience, she advises financial institutions, corporations, and investors on complex transactions in capital markets, corporate reorganisations, syndicated loans, and privatisation processes. She has built a strong reputation in financial regulation and investment banking matters, with particular expertise in structuring investment vehicles and advising on regulatory frameworks for banks and brokerage firms.
Catalina Prieto Núñez

Catalina Prieto Núñez

Catalina Prieto is a senior associate in Pérez-Llorca’s Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice in Bogotá. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience, she advises national and international clients in the financial, energy, and technology sectors on complex financing structures, corporate lending, and capital markets transactions. She has significant expertise in corporate loans, syndicated financings, acquisition financings, aircraft financings, and bond issuances under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rule 144A, and bring a cross-border perspective to her work that has been strengthened by her international training and regulatory background.
José Luis Palacios

José Luis Palacios

José Luis Palacios is a Partner in the Energy & Natural Resources practice at Pérez-Llorca. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience, he advises national and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, financing, regulatory, contractual, and environmental matters in the oil, gas, mining, and renewable energy sectors. His practice combines transactional expertise with deep industry knowledge, particularly in structuring and negotiating sector-specific contracts, including E&P, PPA, EPC, and O&M agreements.
Inês Palma Ramalho

Inês Palma Ramalho

Inês joined Pérez-Llorca in 2024 as a partner in the context of the international expansion strategy of the firm. Prior to this, she was a partner in the Finance and Governance department and a specialised member of the Fintech, Whistleblowing EU Directive and Compliance teams of the firm where she used to work. Before that Inês was a legal adviser to the Prudential Supervision Department of the Portuguese Central Bank (Banco de Portugal), after being part of the Portuguese Government team in charge of managing and controlling the implementation of the EU/IMF/ECB financial adjustment program in Portugal. She started her career as a lawyer in another international law firm.
María Camila Parra

María Camila Parra

María Camila Parra is Director of the Real Estate & Urban practice at Pérez-Llorca. Over the course of more than 15 years of experience, she has developed a strong focus on urban planning law and real estate project structuring. Her expertise covers land development, territorial planning, and managing administrative procedures involving municipal and national authorities. She regularly advises clients on the legal feasibility of large-scale projects, ensuring alignment between urban planning instruments and business objectives. She has played a key role in a number of significant real estate and infrastructure projects, including advising on Bogotá’s First Metro Line, the structuring of the Madrid II partial plan for Amarilo, and the capitalisation of Viva Malls. She also supported the provisional management of the Lagos de Torca Trust. In addition to these large-scale initiatives, she provides ongoing counsel to PriceSmart, Fox Telecolombia, and the Anglo Colombian School on urban planning, construction permits, and real estate development strategies, combining technical knowledge with practical execution in highly regulated contexts.
Juanita Pérez

Juanita Pérez

Juanita Pérez Botero is a Partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Intellectual Property & Competition practice. She advises Colombian and international clients on the full spectrum of IP rights, including trademarks, patents, copyright, franchising, and entertainment law. With more than two decades of experience, she has achieved wide recognition for her skilled management of complex industrial property portfolios across Latin America, combining strategic brand protection with regional coordination for global companies. Juanita has significant experience in infringement proceedings, domain name disputes, and regulatory defence, as well as in developing enforcement strategies for leading multinationals. She also advises on licensing and commercial agreements, and supports corporate transactions in which IP is a central factor. Her recent mandates include leading the regional brand strategy for Prosalon (Cromantic); advising Alicorp, Almacenes Éxito, Quechua Perú, Grupo Aval, and Jafer Enterprises on IP protection; and assisting international airline brands with trademark negotiations. She works extensively across regulated and consumer-facing industries including pharmaceuticals, health tech, media, and retail.
Andrea Pieschacón

Andrea Pieschacón

Andrea Pieschacón is a Senior Associate in the Life Sciences and Intellectual Property & Competition practices at Pérez-Llorca. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience, she has significant expertise in health and sanitary regulation, and advises national and international companies in highly regulated industries including pharmaceuticals, cannabis, medical devices, cosmetics, hygiene products, and biomedical equipment. Her practice encompasses sanitary registrations and notifications, health permits, homologations, and regulatory support for mergers and acquisitions transactions. Andrea has provided regulatory and sanitary advisory services to leading companies including Glenmark, PriceSmart, and Drypers, as well as multinational pharmaceutical, food, and healthcare companies. Her recent work has included managing biosafety protocol implementation and guiding clients through complex regulatory frameworks in Colombia and abroad via foreign correspondents. She regularly coordinates client relationships and regulatory processes before INVIMA, the Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos, and other relevant authorities.
Juan David Quintero

Juan David Quintero

Juan David Quintero is a Partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Corporate and M&A practice, where he has built a strong reputation for advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. Admitted to practise in both Colombia and New York, he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity fund structuring, joint ventures, and corporate reorganisations, including transactions requiring regulatory approval in Colombia and abroad. His ability to combine deep transactional expertise with cross-border qualifications makes him a key figure in high-stakes mergers and acquisition and corporate matters.
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri

Joaquín Ruiz Echauri

Joaquín Ruiz Echauri has over 25 years of experience providing corporate, regulatory and litigious advice for the insurance and reinsurance industry. During his career he has worked with major national and international clients on M&A transactions, bancassurance alliances, VIF reinsurance agreements, portfolio transfers and reorganisations and all types of corporate matters. In the area of regulation, he has provided advice on product design, contract interpretation, insurance and reinsurance distribution and pension plans and funds. Likewise, he is a recognised specialist in the litigious field of the insurance sector and matters of product civil liability, where he has managed high-level litigation and arbitration.
Ignacio Santabaya

Ignacio Santabaya

Ignacio has built his career in renowned international firms where he has advised clients from both Spain and abroad, in diverse sectors including construction, finance, pharmaceutical, energy, industrial, hospitality, gaming and the Internet. His prior work has focused on civil, insolvency and contentious-administrative proceedings before various Spanish courts, including the Supreme Court, and on national and international arbitration, before courts such as the ICC and the ICSID.
Felipe Suescún

Felipe Suescún

Felipe Siescun Partner in the Dispute Resolution department with 20 years’ experience in domestic and international arbitration, dispute resolution and business law. Felipe focuses on complex commercial and investment disputes involving infrastructure, energy, oil and gas, mining, construction, corporate matters and EPC contracts across Latin America, Europe and North America. Felipe has acted as counsel, arbitrator, tribunal president, sole arbitrator and tribunal secretary in complex domestic and international arbitrations under various institutional and local rules. He has represented clients in arbitrations seated in the Americas and Europe, investment and state-investor disputes, and proceedings concerning the recognition and setting aside of awards, as well as advising on pre-contentious disputes arising from major engineering projects and corporate conflicts.
Juan Antonio Ucrós

Juan Antonio Ucrós

Juan Antonio Ucrós is a Senior Associate in the Projects and Public Law practice at Pérez-Llorca. With more than 15 years of professional experience, he advises public and private sector clients on constitutional and administrative law, state procurement, project finance, and infrastructure development. His practice combines regulatory knowledge with transactional and contentious expertise, particularly in transport, electric mobility, and public–private partnerships (PPPs). Juan Antonio has advised on several landmark infrastructure and public law mandates. He has provided comprehensive legal counsel to Empresa Metro de Bogotá in connection with its mass passenger transport system, advised on the acquisition of the Briceño-Tunja-Sogamoso highway concession, and supported the financing granted to Elecnorte by IFC and Banco Davivienda. His work has also included advising on the public tender for the procurement of an electric fleet for TransMilenio and contributing to the structuring of the electric transport system for San Andrés and Providencia. Earlier in his career, his work managing legal issues for environmental and social projects at a private Colombian foundation contributed to his expertise at the intersection of public law, infrastructure, and environmental regulation.
Lina Uribe

Lina Uribe

Lina Uribe García is Partner and Head of the Corporate and M&A practice at Pérez-Llorca. With more than 25 years of experience, she focuses on private equity, joint ventures, and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Her practice also encompasses corporate reorganisations including mergers, spin-offs, and transformations, as well as corporate governance and advisory to local and international clients across multiple sectors. In addition, she is part of the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources group, where she advises on the environmental law aspects of transactions, regulatory compliance, and litigation. Lina has advised on complex and high-value transactions in Colombia and across the region. Her experience includes advising on the acquisition of Carulla Vivero by Almacenes Éxito, the merger between SABMiller and Bavaria, and Avianca’s integrations with Grupo TACA and subsequently with SAI. She has also counselled Tetris Logística on the acquisition of a stake in Open Market, KKR on its acquisition of Colombia Telecomunicaciones’ fibre optic assets, and on the spin-offs of Caracol Televisión and Cine Colombia. More recent matters include advising on the acquisition of Centelsa by Nexans, Lamosa’s purchase of Eurocerámica and Cerámica San Lorenzo, and Acon’s acquisition of Grupo Ave’s holding companies.
Jesús Varela

Jesús Varela

His areas of expertise are real estate financing, real estate investment and M&A and debt situations. He has advised a wide range of banks and other lenders, real estate investors and debt traders. Jesús is known in the market for his expertise in debt portfolio trades, property financings and private equity deals in the real estate sector, and is a regular speaker at real estate conferences. Jesús has acted for a wide range of banks, institutional investors, opportunity investors and private equity houses.