Andrés Parias > Esguerra Asesores Jurídicos > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
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Andrés Parias
Work Department
Corporate / M&A
Position
Partner of the Corporate / M&A areas of practice
Career
Andrés worked as an Attorney for Barrios, Vélez & Associates law firm, Attorney at the Superintendence of Securities, Legal Advisor of the National Planning Department and Director of Commerce and Financing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
He also worked at the Fund for the Financing of the Agricultural Sector – FINAGRO, where he held the positions of Legal Director, General Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer and Acting President.
Before joining this Firm, he was Deputy Superintendent for Public Enforcement (Deputy Superintendent for Inspection, Surveillance and Control) of the Superintendence of Companies, where he also served as Acting Superintendent on several occasions.
He is Professor of Corporate Law at the Undergraduate and in postgraduate programs of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Bogotá, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Cali, Universidad de la Sabana, EAFIT University (Medellín) and the Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla).
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Lawyer, 1999. Honorific Degree for the thesis on judicial functions of the Superintendence of Companies. Bogotá, Colombia, 1999.
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Business Law Specialist, Bogotá, Colombia, 2002.
- Universidad Externado de Colombia, MBA. Bogotá, Colombia, 2017.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Corporate and M&A
(Next Generation Partners)Esguerra Asesores Jurídicos’ corporate practice is ‘very agile in its responses, without losing depth in the analysis’, according to some. The team benefits from its ability to lean into the wider firm’s formidable regulatory offering to specialise in advising on transactions involving heavily regulated industries, including financial services, life sciences, infrastructure and energy, among others. Led jointly by Juan Pablo González, whose practice spans corporate, capital markets and finance work, and Andrés Parias, who handles a mix of transactional and compliance matters, the department also includes corporate and finance partner Verónica Arango Lux. December 2022 saw former associate Maria Clara Londoño leave for Bancolombia, but in January 2023, the group welcomed the arrival of associate Felipe Nova Delgado from ONGC Videsh. Since publication, the firm has merged with tax specialist firm Jiménez, Higuita, Rodríguez & Asociados (Tax & customs) to become Esguerra JHR – effective as of February 2024.