Lucas Fajardo > Brigard Urrutia > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Brigard Urrutia Offices
CALLE 70A #4-41
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Lucas Fajardo
Work Department
Insurance and Reinsurance
Position
Partner
Career
Partner at the Insurance and Reinsurance Team of Brigard Urrutia. He has advised several national and foreign companies in the insurance and reinsurance sector on corporate, contractual, and regulatory matters, as well as claims handling. He has provided support to major insurance and reinsurance groups in various matters before the Financial Superintendence, such as the incorporation of insurance companies and insurance and reinsurance brokers, approval of insurance lines of business, opening and liquidation of representative offices, approval of bancassurance contracts, and registration of foreign reinsurers and reinsurance brokers.
He has also advised multiple companies in the real sector on the procurement of insurance programs, ensuring proper coverage for the risks they face.
Languages
Spanish, English and Portuguese
Memberships
He served as president of INSURALEX, the largest global network of insurance and reinsurance law firms, with presence in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, and he is a member of the Colombian Association of Insurance Law – ACOLDESE.
Education
Lucas is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes. He holds a postgraduate degree in Insurance Law from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and in Transportation Law from Universidad Externado de Colombia. He graduated from the Master of Comparative and European Law program at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Additionally, he has been professor of insurance and reinsurance law at important universities in the country, in undergraduate and graduate programs.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Insurance
(Next Generation Partners)Brigard Urrutia’s insurance group is distinguished by its ‘high-level commitment, quick responses, kindness, and availability’. As part of a full-service firm offering, its ‘ability to call on complementary practice lawyers’ is also a recurring theme among sources. The team acts for a mix of domestic and multinational insurers — and insured companies — on the full gamut of insurance work, with distinct skill sets in regulatory, transactional, and contentious matters. Dispute resolution specialist Irma Rivera Ramírez steers the department and advised Bupa Worldwide on its reinsurance operations in Colombia, including on regulatory and contractual matters concerning health insurance products marketed in Colombia. Practice director Lucas Fajardo – who he focuses exclusively on insurance work, including regulatory, contractual and claims-related issues – was promoted to the partnerhsip in June 2023; he is highlighted (along with associate Iván Montenegro), for ‘delivering requests on time and with a high level of analysis.’
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- City focus > Cali
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Energy and natural resources
- Insurance
- Dispute resolution > Litigation
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