Mrs Laura Castaño Echeverri > Tamayo Jaramillo & Asociados > Medellin, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Tamayo Jaramillo & Asociados Offices
CARRERA 43, NO 36-39 ED CENTRO 2000
OFICINA 406
MEDELLIN
Colombia
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Mrs Laura Castaño Echeverri
Work Department
Mrs. Laura Castaño Echeverri works in the following Departments of the firm: Transportation Law, Dispute Resolution and Insurance.
In the Department of Transportation Law her work unit is compossed of the following partners and associates: Margarita Rosa Jaramillo Cossio (partner), Daniel Ossa Gómez (partner), María Luisa Trujillo Gómez (associate), Luis David Pérez Muñoz (associate), Daniel Bedoya Maya (associate) and Ricardo Machado Ángel (associate).
In the Department of Dispute Resolution her work unit is compossed of the following partners and associates: Carlos Andrés González Galvis (partner), Luis Miguel Gómez Gómez (partner), Margarita Rosa Jaramillo Cossio (partner), Daniel Bedoya Maya (associate) and María Luisa Trujillo Gómez (associate).
In the Department of Insurance her work unit is compossed of the following associates and partners: Carlos Andrés González (partner), Daniel Ossa Gómez (partner) Daniel Bedoya Maya (associate), Juliana Gómez Londoño (associate) and Carolina de la Torre Ávila (associate).
Position
Mrs. Laura Castaño Echeverri has worked in the firm since 2014 as an associate. However in October, 2020, she became a firm´s partner.
Her main areas of practice are Transportation Law, Dispute Resolution and Insurance.
Career
Mrs. Castaño Echeverri has a master’s degree in private law from the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), a specialization studies in contract law and 12 years of experience in litigation and consulting in civil liability, insurance, and contract law.
She has worked in the firm since 2014 as an associate. However, in October, 2020, she became a firm´s partner.
Lecturer in Colombian Universities in civil liability and contracts courses. She was nominated and recognized in previous years as an outstanding lawyer under the modality partner: next generation.
Mrs. Laura Castaño Echeverri is noted for her skill in high impact litigation. She has achieved important successes representing her clients before judicial and arbitral courts. Her great performance in medical liability processes is highlighted, in which she has represented medical institutions, health professionals and their insurers.
Languages
English, Spanish and French.
Education
Mrs. Castaño Echeverri has a master’s degree in private law from the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), a specialization studies in contract law and 12 years of experience in litigation and consulting in civil liability, insurance, and contract law.
Leisure
Mrs. Castaño Echeverri main leisure activities are practicing kundalini yoga, meditation, singing in the Macondo choir as a soprano and reading.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Dispute resolution > Litigation
(Next Generation Partners)According to clients, Tamayo Jaramillo & Asociados’ team is composed of ‘people with diverse skills who generate deliverables with a holistic, complete and efficient analysis’. A prominent name for insurance work, the firm’s contentious expertise extends beyond insurance to take in construction, consumer law and administrative law disputes, among other matters. Up-and-coming litigators Laura Castaño Echeverri and Daniel Ossa Gómez are highlighted together as ‘very smart and strategic lawyers’; they teamed up with firm founder and high-profile insurance expert Javier Tamayo Jaramillo to successfully represent the inhabitants of the ‘Space’ building in their lawsuit seeking compensation for damages caused by construction deficiencies. The group also draws on risk analysis partner Carlos Andrés González, who is ‘skilled in strategic litigation and civil liability’; and Luis Miguel Gómez, who specialises in dispute resolution, and civil and state liability. Key associates include Daniel Bedoya and Manuel Cadavid Valencia. Luis David Pérez left the firm in November 2023.
Colombia > Insurance
(Next Generation Partners)According to sources, Medellín-based boutique Tamayo Jaramillo & Asociados ‘is characterised by its highly specialised knowledge in insurance and liability issues’. With experience across a wide range of regulatory, commercial and contentious issues, the group is differentiated by its robust activity in judicial and extrajudicial claims and contractual matters. Widely regarded as a reference in the market, firm founder Javier Tamayo Jaramillo stands out for his practical and academic credentials. Tamayo Jaramillo steers a ‘young, diverse, passionate and disciplined work team’ that includes risk analysis partner Carlos Andres Gonzales Galvís, who has a ‘broad vision of the law’; Laura Castaño Echeverri, who is recommended for her record in insurance litigation (including medical liability); Daniel Ossa Gómez, who has an emphasis on civil and state liability; and associate Daniel Bedoya, who is highlighted as a ‘lawyer with extensive experience despite his youth’.
Colombia > City focus > Medellín
According to some, insurance and dispute resolution boutique Tamayo Jaramillo & Asociados fields ‘the best offering in terms of insurance law’. Founded in Medellín in 1980, the firm additionally leverages a well-staffed Bogotá platform and is nationally regarded as a destination practice for contentious insurance work. The team enjoys close links with local insurance heavyweight Suramericana, while it also acts for major multinational insurers and reinsurers from its Medellín headquarters, including HDI Seguros and Chubb Seguros Colombia. Founding partner Javier Tamayo Jaramillo is considered by many as a reference in the market for insurance law and recently represented Inversiones Techcolombia in a dispute against its insurer, Seguros Bolívar. Other recommended names include Carlos Andres Gonzales Galvís, who has a focus on complex insurance litigation; next-generation insurance specialists Laura Castaño Echeverri and Daniel Ossa Gómez; dispute resolution partner Luis Miguel Gómez; and Margarita Rosa Jaramillo, who handles fiscal liability and insurance. Rising star associate, Daniel Bedoya, is also noted.
Lawyer Rankings
- Medellín Colombia > City focus
- Next Generation Partners Colombia > Insurance
- Next Generation Partners Colombia > Dispute resolution > Litigation
- Insurance Colombia
- Litigation Colombia > Dispute resolution