Lauded as ‘a highly qualified team providing personalised attention’, Pérez-Llorca (formerly Gómez-Pinzón Abogados) fields a practice group that is distinguished by its focus on risk prevention and compliance matters. Clients include both domestic and multinational corporations, who turn to the team for assistance with the design and implementation of compliance programmes, international investigations and due diligence-related matters, among others. Seasoned director Adriana Bueno Buitrago steers a team that also includes intermediate associate Anguie Castro (’very concise and accurate’) and associate Nathaly Acero.
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Testimonials
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‘The team is excellently prepared. Lawyers are available to answer urgent queries and provide complete and practical advice. It compares favourably with other offices.’
‘Adriana Bueno Buitrago and her team members have always provided excellent advice, helping us resolve complex cases with practical solutions that we can implement in the company. They have excellent disposition and provide complete advice.’
‘We value that the team leader has extensive experience in the real sector; lawyers need to have experienced or lived what we internal compliance lawyers experience every day in our companies. I especially mention Adriana Bueno Buitrago and her team. She has a great people skills.’
‘The GP team is very organised, and has extensive knowledge and understanding of the sector and the applicable regulations. Additionally, its responses are always timely and it assists us as soon as possible.’
‘Adriana Bueno Buitrago has extensive experience in compliance matters, which generates immense confidence because she is not only theoretical but within her advice she helps us understand how to apply her recommendations. Anguie Castro always responds to our calls quickly, she is very concise and accurate.’
‘The team is extremely collaborative, I work with two people and both are totally involved in my business and it feels like there is no difference between one or the other, if one is not there then the other responds immediately and accurately. The billing team is efficient and quick to act.’
Key clients
- Blu Logistics Colombia
- TradeService Group (Colombia branch)
- Agencia de Aduanas Blu Logistics
- Casa de Bolsa (Sociedad Comisionista de Bolsa)
- Guaicaramo
- Pluspetrol Colombia Corporation
- Epson Colombia
- Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza Colombia (WWF Colombia)
- TIS Productions Colombia
- IGT Colombia Solutions
- PriceSmart Colombia
- GTM Colombia
Work highlights
Advised Mazda on the biannual update of its SAGRILAFT and PTEE programmes, among other compliance matters.
Assisted Guaicaramo with the development of a workflow and operational manual for a trading desk to identify the risks related to money laundering, corruption, transnational bribery, and financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Advised WWF Colombia on implementing its PTEE programme.
Lawyers
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
Adriana Bueno Buitrago