Mrs Natalia García Arenas > Gómez-Pinzón Abogados (GPA) > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados (GPA) Offices
CALLE 67 NO. 7-35
OF. 1204
BOGOTÁ
Colombia
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Mrs Natalia García Arenas
Work Department
Corporate/M&A
Position
Partner.
Career
Natalia is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, has advanced studies in Financial Legislation from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the School of Law at Columbia University in New York.
Lawyer with more than 19 years of professional experience, associated to the Firm since 2002. Her practice focuses mainly on Mergers & Acquisitions and financing operations. She has advised companies in the real sector, financial institutions, and national and international private equity funds. She also worked as an international associate in the offices of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP in New York City.
Partner of the Firm and member of the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group, Natalia has extensive experience advising local and international buyers and sellers, including private equity funds, during the process of acquiring and selling companies, from the due process legal diligence, structuring, documentation and negotiation of the documents of the transaction, the request of approvals to governmental entities, until the advice in the closing and post-closing of the transaction. The main acquisition processes in which she has worked have involved both regulated and unregulated companies in all types of sectors, including, among others, the financial and insurance sector, mining and hydrocarbons, thermoelectric, services, retail, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, transport and entertainment.
As a member of the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice, Natalia has advised mainly financing operations, both Colombian companies and local and international financial institutions. She has extensive experience in documenting and negotiating financing documents and in the structuring of guarantees.
Languages
English, Spanish
Memberships
IBA Member.
Education
Attorney from Universidad Javeriana; Specialist in Financial Law from Universidad de Los Andes; LL.M from Columbia University School of Law.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Corporate and M&A
Lawyers at Gómez-Pinzón Abogados (GPA) find favour with sources for their ‘willingness to help and find solutions for the business’. The firm’s ‘very well-structured diversity and inclusion programme’ also strikes the right note with clients, and is evidenced here by a strong female partner-led team. With involvement in many of the year’s marquee deals in Colombia, the group is a particularly dominant player in the public M&A sphere — across all market segments. Lina Uribe García heads the group and is widely recognised for her expertise in the private equity arena; she recently paired up with Natalia García Arenas to advise KKR on the acquisition of a majority stake in Alamo Holdco, the sole shareholder of Onnet Fibra Colombia. In one of the market’s most high-profile set of transactions, Juan David Quintero advised the Gilinski Family, through Nugil and JGDB Holding, on the structuring and implementation of seven consecutive unsolicited tender offers. Ana Cristina Jaramillo also put in a good recent performance and secured key roles in a string of cross-border transactions, which included acting for China’s JCHX Mining Management on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Cordoba Minerals’ Colombian subsidiaries. The group further benefits from the extensive corporate expertise of energy and natural resources head Patricia Arrázola, director María Isabel Romero de la Torre, and experienced counsel María Fernanda Restrepo. At associate level, seniors Paola Valderrama, Emanuela Guevara, Juan Pablo Caicedo and Francisco Pamplona are the names to note. In July 2022, director Daniel Fajardo left for an in-house position at Engie, while partner Felipe Mariño departed the firm in December 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- City focus > Cali
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Environment
- City focus > Medellín
- Tax