Mr Jorge de los Ríos > Posse Herrera Ruiz > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Posse Herrera Ruiz Offices
CRA 7 NO 71-52
TORRE A, PISO 5
BOGOTÁ
Colombia
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Mr Jorge de los Ríos
Work Department
Competition, Consumer and Data Protection
Position
Jorge De los Ríos is a partner at Posse Herrera Ruiz. His practice focuses on Competition Law, Consumer Protection, Unfair Competition Litigation, Protection of Personal Data, and Compliance. He has extensive experience advising on regulatory matters in the food industry, alcoholic beverages, the pharmaceutical industry, the tobacco industry, and the cosmetics and personal care products and home industries. He has advised multinational and local companies in multiple cases of business concentrations in Colombia and globally and has participated in some of the most relevant cases of business cartels in Colombia.
Career
He has worked globally as a Global Competition Counsel for Unilever on issues related to business concentrations, compliance, restrictive competition practices, and private enforcement. In parallel to his professional practice, he has served as a professor of Competition Law at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and at the Eafit University of Medellín and has been a postgraduate professor at various universities in Colombia on multiple occasions. Jorge is repeatedly invited as an expert lecturer to multiple conferences specialized in Competition Law issues in Colombia and abroad and is a member of the Center for Competition Law Studies – CEDEC of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a founding member of the Colombian Association of Competition Law ACDC.
Jorge has authored several specialized publications on Competition Law issues. He is a graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has master’s and postgraduate studies from Robert Schuman University and King’s College London, respectively.
Languages
He speaks Spanish, English and French.
Education
· Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Lawyer. Bogota, Colombia.
· Universidad Robert Schuman, Master’s degree, Estrasbourg, France.
· King´s College London, Posgrade, London, England.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Competition and antitrust
(Leading individuals)According to sources, Posse Herrera Ruiz’s competition group is ‘composed of lawyers who care about understanding the business of their clients’. The practice secured a strong run of merger reviews during 2022/23, which included advising German transport company Hapag-Lloyd on the Colombian merger-review aspects of its acquisition of two lines of businesses of Chile-based SM SAAM, namely SAAM Ports and SAAM Logistics. Alongside its strength in merger proceedings, the team handles a significant volume of behavioural competition matters. Competition specialist Jorge De Los Ríos steers the department and led on the Hapag-Lloyd work, with support from senior associate Jorge Lamo Blanco, who joined in July 2022 from Esguerra Asesores Jurídicos. Associates Laura Torrado and Adriana Otero are also noted for competition, data protection and consumer protection matters.
Colombia > TMT
Posse Herrera Ruiz’s interdisciplinary TMT offering routinely acts alongside teams from across the full-service firm to advise TMT clients on a range of transactional, regulatory and contentious matters. The department is co-led by real estate head Andrés Montoya, whose infrastructure practice lends itself well to involvement in telecoms projects; together with competition partner Jorge de los Ríos, who handles data protection and regulatory matters. Other key contacts include IP and digital law partner Ernesto Cavelier, and associate Laura Torrado, who is noted for data protection.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Colombia > Competition and antitrust
- Competition and antitrust Colombia
- TMT Colombia
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Arbitration
- Corporate and M&A
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- Dispute resolution > Litigation
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