About

The in-house team of seven highly skilled and specialist lawyers at Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia is headed by Dr Ana María Flórez Ocampo, as head of corporate legal office. The team focuses on four major areas of practice, namely, contracting, judicial affairs, IP, and hospital legal matters, each with its own management structure and specialist lawyers. The legal team participates in many large-scale transactions through its several different areas of advice, such as arbitral proceedings, medical liability demands, executive demands of recovery of portfolio against responsible payment institutions of the health sector, and contractual transactions of purchase of goods and services. To the team’s credit, some of these recent transactions exceeded COL$25bn. Due to the exponential growth that the company has seen over recent years, especially in the construction and start-up of the Medical Complex, Hospital Internacional de Colombia and the Centro Internacional de Especialistas, there have been many changes experienced during the legal accompaniment provided during all stages of each project, from development, execution and implementation. Today this project is considered a medical complex of world class, and a state-of-the-art reference at a national and Latin American level. About this growth, Flórez highlights that ‘the legal area has now been restructured and has focused its practice on specialised areas that allow it to deal more expeditiously and with legal certainty with the different issues that require its support. This led to the creation of new positions and functions that allow a broad and transversal coverage of the entire corporate’.