Hurtado Gandini Dávalos Abogados

Dispute Resolution and Insurance Law

Managing Partner

Mr. Hurtado is co-founder and managing partner of Hurtado Gandini Dávalos, where he also leads the Dispute Resolution and Insurance Department. With over 26 years of professional experience, he has built a distinguished career providing strategic legal counsel and representing clients in complex litigation across civil, commercial, administrative, criminal, and insolvency matters.

He has extensive experience advising national and international clients on dispute resolution and insurance matters, with a particular focus on insurance, infrastructure, mining, public and private liability, and the financial sector. His practice combines litigation expertise with preventive legal strategies designed to protect client interests and support business continuity.

In addition to his professional practice, Mr. Hurtado has served as lecturer in civil and insurance law at Universidad Icesi. He has led training programs in arbitration and conciliation at the Cali Chamber of Commerce, where he also acts as an arbitrator. His academic and professional contributions reflect his ongoing commitment to strengthening Colombia’s dispute resolution framework.

As part of his leadership within the firm, Francisco actively promotes collaboration between Hurtado Gandini Dávalos and Universidad Icesi’s innovation and technology student groups, fostering knowledge exchange and professional development initiatives that connect academia and practice.

Spanish

Francisco Hurtado holds a Law degree from Universidad de San Buenaventura in Cali, a specialization in Insurance Law from Universidad Externado de Colombia, and a Master’s in Tort Law from the University of Girona, Spain.