Juan Camilo Varón > DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile

Noted for its ‘timely delivery of results’, DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán’s capital markets group has experience in representing issuers, underwriters, brokers, placement agents and investors on debt and equity transactions. Managing partner Camilo Martínez spearheads the department and brings to bear complementary practice expertise in corporate, banking, foreign investment and dispute resolution. Other key contacts include associate director Juan Camilo Varón, who focuses on corporate, commercial and energy law; and associate Sebastián Pomárico, who provides support on banking, finance and corporate issues.

‘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. Since pubication, the practice has been notably strengthened with the hire of Dario Laguado Giraldo -formerly chair of the corporate and M&A practice at Brigard Urrutia, (effective April 2024).