Daniela Duarte > DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán Offices
CARRERA 7 NO 71-21
TORRE B OF 602
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Daniela Duarte
Work Department
Corporate M&A; Project M&A; Banking & Finance
Position
Daniela is a Senior Associate in the Corporate / M&A practice area.
Career
She focuses her practice on advising local and foreign companies in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, commercial, foreign investment and foreign exchange regulation.
Daniela represents private equity funds, venture capital funds and international and domestic corporate clients in the acquisition of companies. She has extensive experience in advising on all corporate processes of mergers, spin-offs and structuring of Colombian companies.
Before joining DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán, she worked at a big four firm in Colombia in the corporate and M&A practice areas.
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
- Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M.), King’s College London (England)
- Lawyer (J.D. equivalent), Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Corporate and M&A
‘A first-rate team that is focused on seeking transactional solutions’, DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán attracts glowing reviews from sources for its lawyers’ ‘experience and knowledge in everything related to M&A’. Distinguished by its extensive global network and increasingly prominent position in infrastructure-related deals, the comprehensive practice covers the full life-cycle of corporate and M&A matters, with notable experience in cross-border work. Among the names to note, key partner Felipe Quintero had a banner year, which included advising Macquarie Asset Management on the acquisition of 50% of Odinsa’s road concession business in Colombia. In another significant infrastructure highlight, corporate and finance specialist Juan Manuel de la Rosa advised John Laing on the acquisition of two electric bus concessions in Bogotá from Somos K Fondo Ashmore Andino II – FCP, and Ashmore Andean Fund II. Outside of the infrastructure sphere, managing partner Camilo Martínez utilised his dual practice strengths in corporate and financial law to represent Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores in a spin-off process of certain of its assets in Panama and Central America before the Superintendence of Finance and the Colombian Stock Exchange, as part of the reorganisation process of Banco de Bogota and Grupo Aval. At senior level, the department also includes Felipe Aristizabal, who was promoted to partner in January 2023, and restructuring and insolvency specialist Nicolás Polanía. The deep corporate bench additionally draws on directors Juan Camilo Varón and Juan Carlos Gambín (‘a young and brilliant lawyer’), as well as senior associates Daniela Duarte, Natalia Bernal and María Alejandra Cabrera.