Martínez Quintero Mendoza González Laguado & de la Rosa

Banking & Finance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Real Estate Law

Juan Manuel is Partner of the Banking & Finance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Real Estate Law practice areas.

Juan Manuel has extensive experience advising investment banks, private equity funds and top-tier strategic investors on mergers, acquisitions and asset transfer transactions in Colombia and Latin America.

For more than five years, he led the financing, mergers and acquisitions practice at a prestigious international law firm based in Bogota. He also worked at Chadbourne & Parke in New York at the Latin America division.

Juan Manuel has held positions at the Boards of Directors of several financial institutions in Colombia and has been a pioneer in the creation of the International Business course at the law school of Universidad de los Andes, where he also taught civil law. Currently, he teaches Mergers & Acquisitions at that university.

His opinion pieces published in the Asuntos Legales of La República periodical have been the most popular and read ones.

Spanish and English

• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Columbia Latin America Business Law Association (CLABLA)

• Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M.), Columbia University (United States)
• European and Latin American Courses, Fundación Ortega & Gasset (Spain)
• Lawyer (J.D. equivalent), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)