Medellín-based UH Abogados is well positioned to take advantage of its home city’s growing popularity with investors in the high-tech and venture capital spheres. Alongside its strength in advising VC funds and corporations on investment transactions, the team also advises on M&A, reorganisations, joint ventures and day-to-day advisory matters. Carolina Uribe combines strength in corporate, commercial and real estate law and co-heads the practice alongside Carlos Henao, who also maintains a broad transactional focus. The ‘technically rigorous and very professional’ Daniela Vélez was promoted to associate director of the corporate and M&A practice in November 2023.
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‘A solid M&A and corporate practice that inspires confidence. It differs from other firms in putting the business and the company as a total priority. It provides a service focused on the customer, not on billing.’
‘Daniela Vélez is one of the best lawyers that I have had the opportunity to work with on transactions. Her form of internal and external leadership stands out for its clarity and functionality.’
‘We managed to collaborate to make a very good team, being able to add capabilities and unify criteria, working together with the UH team, especially with Daniela Vélez. The team understands the client's interests without sacrificing legal rigour. Fees are reasonable.’
‘Daniela Vélez has negotiation and leadership skills that, added to her legal experience, make her unique.’
‘The UH corporate and M&A team is widely experienced in structuring successful transactional schemes that enable the closing of deals. But, the most important thing, is that the team is agile and dynamic. It is a team that generates trust and affability within an environment of rigour and good legal work.’
‘The team maintains excellent relationships. It is close, clear and pro-business for clients. Lawyers look for different alternatives to provide solutions in a timely and strategic manner. In general they are all very good. I highlight the leadership skills of Carolina Uribe.’
‘Partner Carlos Henao is creative and agile in structuring legal proposals to make business viable. He is always protecting the interests of the client while also seeking to make the transaction possible.’
‘Daniela Vélez, associate, is a firm and structured negotiator, technically rigorous and very professional. She is capable of uniting the parties and promoting the finding of solutions and points of contact between the parties.’
Key clients
- Acumen Fund
- Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez
- Sociedad Portafolio
- Promotora Clínica Zona Franca de Urabá
- Cooperativa Consumo
- Laboratorios Ecar
- Red Polar
- Grupo Argos
- Azimut Energía
- Haceb Whirlpool Industrial.
Work highlights
- Advised Grupo Bios on its acquisition of shares in CI Antillana.
- Advised Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez and Acumen Fund, as investors in Soluna Energía.
- Advised Cooperativa Consumo on an asset-purchase transaction with Supermercados La Vaquita.
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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
Carolina Uribe; Carlos Henao