MPA/PDA Derecho Punitivo y Riesgos Corporativos > Bogota, Colombia > Firm Profile

MPA/PDA Derecho Punitivo y Riesgos Corporativos > Firm Profile

We are a boutique firm with offices in Bogotá, Barranquilla, Medellín and Manizales, which allows us to optimize costs in the management, control and monitoring of processes. https://mpapenalcorporativo.com/ and https://pavadiazarana.com/

Legal and compliance advisors of the Banco de la República, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, the financial and real sector (87% of banks and 95 entities).

Specialized in criminal and administrative corporate sanctioning law, experts in litigation in their different roles and legislations, as well as in prevention and response methodologies in relation to the risks that affect the daily life of companies and entities in the public and private sectors.

Experts in designing reactive and preventive corporate defense plans, based on compliance models and instruments. Members of the Spanish Association of Compliance “ASCOM”, Colombian Association of Integrity, Ethics and Compliance “ACIEC”.

We have a strategic alliance with IFD Evidence for the development of digital justice, virtual litigation, cybersecurity and remote risk control, all through LegalTech methodologies.

Additionally, our knowledge management area intervenes in legislative and jurisdictional discussions in the Constitutional Court, which bases the workshops and dialogue spaces on compliance, as well as the bimonthly publication “Diálogos Punitivos”. This area speeds up and keeps effective, efficient and update the process of producing legal concepts. The academic material can be consulted at: https://dialogospunitivos.com/

Below, we specifically explain our services:

• • Advice on Criminal Law:

Since 1996 we have been advising and representing financial sector entities and corporations in the field of corporate criminal law, specializing in the management of corporate victims and more recently, in the analysis and evaluation of financial and operational risks for the prevention of crime and acts of infidelity of employees and fraudulent third parties. We specialize in corporate defense plans, in punitive and extra punitive risks.

We have more than 20 years in the criminal – sanctioning advice of natural and legal persons, we have remained a boutique firm, carefully selecting our clients, preserving their reputation and offering a reinforced comprehensive service. As a boutique firm, we stand out for offering dedication and special attention to each of the central and peripheral risks associated with corporate criminal law, punitive compliance, legal, reputational, administrator personal, functional risks, etc.

As the leader of the firm is Mauricio Pava Lugo, a conjuez of both the Supreme Court’s criminal chamber and of the National Electoral Council,  with particular expertise in penal cassation, higher university course in Criminal Compliance at the University of Barcelona, ​​participant and lecturer in more than 30 congresses of criminal and procedural law, accumulating more than 20 years of experience in corporate criminal litigation. He advises a large part of the country’s financial system and important companies in the real sector.

Academic publications, undergraduate and postgraduate professor, member of the committee of experts of the Excellence in Justice Corporation, expert advisor for legislative initiatives in 2015 for the Ministry of Justice and Law, advisor for the reform of the criminal procedure code among the years 2013 and 2018. Individually or as a member of the ICDP, intervention and promotion in different exequity procedures before the Constitutional Court, achieving important decisions such as sentences C-782/05, C-454/06, C-186/08, C- 250/11, among others.

In conclusion, MPA/PDA stands out as a law firm for its dedicated and personalized attention to each of its clients and their different requirements, with specialized structures for the differentiated management of consultancies and cases. With MPA/PDA you will have the confidence to hire the best team of professionals, our goal in the face of queries, challenges and difficulties is to generate efficient and effective action plans, assume and solve problems.

• • Advice on Compliance and corporate defense plans (preventive and reactive):

• • Implementation: Theoretical and instrumental support in the validation of: compliance models, compliance instruments such as the Code of Ethics, Ethics Channel, Compliance Culture, traceability of the program and other behavior protocols. Design of controls in the Compliance environment aimed at monitoring and testing the operation in the different areas of corporate citizenship. Meet the legal support requirements in relation to its administration and risk management programs. Provide the models and their instruments with their own identity in accordance with the nature and needs of the corporate citizen.

• • Integration: Anticipation of protection barriers under risk identification and management schemes, taking into account the Entity as a whole.

• • Chain delegations: Establishment and assessment of the elements of the delegation in the corporate chain with regard to the determination of punitive responsibility of administrators for acts of subordinates, delimitation on the application of the principle of trust, -duty of vigilance and sphere separation.

• • Punitive compliance: Relationship and instrumentation with external and internal Supervision, Control and Investigation Bodies (Risks and Derived Contingencies). Answer queries, requests and concepts.

• • Derived from the academic area of ​​the firm, and from its publication “Diálogos Punitivos”, we base the compliance workshops and dialogues, within a participatory, pedagogical compliance model that implies the need to socialize with the corporate population in the need for management of adequate risks, to promote countercultural spaces that advocate the permanent commitment to behavior based on legality and compliance.

The firm is expert in designing reactive and preventive corporate defense plans, based on compliance models and instruments.

We belong to ASCOM and ACIEC. This allows us to participate in the first level international forums regarding the resolution of corporate dilemmas, and to be at the forefront in the progressiveness of the institutional components of the second line of defense.

Below, we list some press releases on legal issues developed by our firm:

Extinction of domain: https://www.asuntoslegales.com.co/actualidad/los-procesos-de-extincion-de-dominiopueden-durar-en-curso-incluso-30-anos-3055031

Legaltech: https://www.asuntoslegales.com.co/actualidad/punitech-una-herramienta-tecnologicaque-permite-seguir-las-fases-de-un-sistema-de-cumplimiento-3042670

Good practices: https://www.semana.com/hablan-las-marcas/articulo/hay-que-acabar-con-el-todo-sevale-en-el-mundo-del- Derecho/644176

Compliance Sector: http://www.dinero.com/edition-impresa/caratula/articulo/los-abogados-favoritos-delas-grandes-empresas/225890

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	María Alejandra Cortés Gómez	Associate	View Profile
	Jacobo Alejandro González	Partner	View Profile
	Daniel Santiago Guío Díaz	Associate	View Profile
	Maria José Jaramillo	Associate	View Profile
	Elías Mauricio Monroy Mora	Associate	View Profile
	Juan David Palacio González	Associate	View Profile
	Mauricio Pava Lugo	Managing Director – Partner	View Profile
	Luis Carlos Reyes Duarte	Associate	View Profile
	Lina Maria Sandoval Echavarría	Associate	View Profile
	Javier Augusto Torres López	Associate	View Profile
	Cristhian J. Zambrano Gómez	Associate	View Profile

Solicitor Profiles

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	Paula Andrea Ramírez Hernández	Associate	View Profile

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