Felipe Serrano > Serrano Martínez CMA > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile

Serrano Martínez CMA
Calle 27 # 5A – 12
Bogotá D.C.
Colombia

Work Department

Competition/Antitrust, Litigation

Position

Managing Partner

Career

Felipe is a founding partner of Serrano Martinez, He is an expert in competition/antitrust law, commercial and regulatory investigations and litigation, compliance, and privacy law. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Chief Adviser to the Superintendent of Industry and Commerce (Competition, Privacy and Consumer Protection Authority) and Deputy Superintendent of Industry and Commerce. He has worked as a lawyer in the Litigation Department of leading firms in Colombia and in private sector entities. He is admitted to act as attorney in Colombia and the State of New York. Foralmost twenty years, he has advised and represented important national and foreign clients in competition, corporate, contractual, privacy and consumer-related matters, investigations, and litigation. Felipe he represents and advises leading companies in the oil & gas, retail, food and new technologies industries, among which are: Uber, Amazon, Unilever, Chevron Petroleum Company, Allianz, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

Felipe is a profesor of competition law at leading universities, and a frequent speaker in national and international events. Currently, he iis the President of the Colombian Antitrust Association – ACDC-.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

American Bar Association, Antitrust Section

International Bar Association

Colombian Antitrust Association -ACDC-

 

Education

–           J.D. and Specialist in Commercial Law from Universidad Javeriana.

–          Specialist in Administrative Litigation from Universidad Externado.

–          LLM in Trade Regulation – Antitrust from NYU Law School.

–          Master in Public Policy from University of Oxford. Chevening Scholar.

–          Diplomas in Basic and Advanced Negotiation from Harvard Law School.

Lawyer Rankings

Colombia > Competition and antitrust

(Leading partners)

Felipe SerranoSerrano Martínez CMA

Competition lawyers at Serrano Martínez CMAprovide recommendations grounded in business reality’, according to clients. Sources also commend the team’s recent national growth, which was enabled by the October 2023 merger between corporate-and-competition-focused Serrano Martínez in Bogotá and Medellín-based Correa Merino Agudelo Abogados. A former Chief Advisor at the SIC, competition and regulation head Felipe Serrano enjoys a strong profile in the market for his comprehensive experience in antitrust investigations, merger review procedures and competition litigation. Among his recent highlights, Serrano successfully represented Uber Technologies in an unfair competition lawsuit brought by taxi company, Cotech. Other key contacts include José Plata Puyana, who specialises in energy regulation and competition work; associate director Andrés Jaramillo Sanz, whose practice spans competition, IP and consumer protection law; and intermediate associate Fery Cure, who handles competition, compliance and regulatory matters.