Juan Diego Martinez > Serrano Martínez CMA > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile

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

Work Department

Corporate and M&A; Estate Planning

Position

Partner

Career

Juan Diego is a partner at Serrano Martinez CMA, where he co-leads the firm’s Corporate Law and M&A practice. With over 15 years of experience, he brings deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and wealth management. His practice is distinguished by a focus on advising both sellers and buyers in complex business transactions, particularly in the energy, healthcare, e-commerce, and technology sectors. Additionally, he provides strategic counsel to families and family offices on wealth management and the governance of family-owned businesses.

Juan Diego has also been a distinguished professor, teaching courses on Contracts, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Shareholder Agreements at several prestigious universities in Colombia.

Languages

Spanish, English, German

Memberships

Member of the Corporate and M&A Law Committee and the Private Client Tax

Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA)

American Bar Association

Education

J.D. from Universidad Javeriana.

J.D. from Universidad del País Vasco.

Specialist in International Business Law from Universidad de los Andes.

LL.M. from NYU Law School.

Lawyer Rankings

Colombia > Corporate and M&A

(Leading partners)

Juan Diego MartínezSerrano Martínez CMA

Attracting strong reviews from clients, the corporate and M&A practice at Serrano Martínez CMA is roundly praised as ‘commercial, responsive, proactive, obsessed with client service and substantively brilliant’. The newly merged group — the result of an October 2023 merger between legacy firms Correa Merino Agudelo Abogados and Serrano Martínez — brings together strong skill sets in M&A, reorganisations, venture capital and contentious work, as well as offices in Colombia’s two major business hubs: Bogotá and Medellín. The ‘extremely committedJuan Diego Martinez co-heads the department and recently advised Grupo Vanti on a joint venture transaction with leading Colombian gas companies to finance the retail acquisition of natural gas-fuelled trucks. Fellow group co-head Camilo Merino specialises in M&A and venture capital, and is particularly noted for technology and start-up-related matters. A talented band of non-partners includes associate practice directors Alejandro Medina and Sebastián Morales Agudelo, as well as intermediate associate Valentina Castillo B.