Britton & Iglesias

Dispute Resolution

Associate

Marcela Olarte Tabares is an associate attorney at Britton & Iglesias, with extensive experience in international arbitration, construction law, international litigation, cross-border insolvency, and financial transactions.

She has represented multinational corporations, multilateral banks, project managers, and others in international arbitration proceedings involving construction and corporate law under CECAP, CESCON, and ICC rules, as well as in corporate insolvency proceedings in Colombia and cross-border insolvency proceedings under the UNCITRAL Model Law.

She is a speaker at national and international forums and has teaches bankruptcy law at Colombian universities. She is a member of Young ICCA, the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce’s Youth Arbitration Network, the Latin American Arbitration Association, and the Colombian Very Young Arbitration Practitioners.

She is a lawyer from the Universidad Libre de Colombia and holds specializations in Contract Law and Business Law at the Universidad Externado and in Financial Law at the Universidad de los Andes. She has studied at American University Washington College of Law and at INSOL International.

English, Spanish

• Admitted to practice in Colombia by the Superior Council of the Judicature.

• Member of the Youth Arbitration Network of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce (CCB).

• 2025 – Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia) – Postgraduate Degree in Contract Law and Legal-Business Relations (Especialista en Derecho Contractual y Relaciones Jurídico-Negociales).

• Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) – Postgraduate Degree in Financial Legislation (Especialista en Legislación Financiera).

• Universidad Libre de Colombia (Colombia) – Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (Abogada).

• 2023 – Asociación Zambrano (Peru) – Course on Complex Contracting and Soft Skills for Construction Projects.

• 2021 – INSOL International – Foundation Certificate on International Insolvency Law (Cross-border insolvency).

• 2015 – American University Washington College of Law, Center of International Commercial Arbitration (USA) – Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration.