Ecuadorian law firm Cevallos, Casals, Balseca & Bilbao (CCB) and Colombia’s MS Legal have launched an alliance, in a bid to widen their services offering to their respective cl...

Colombia’s state-owned oil Company Ecopetrol has acquired a 51.4% stake in Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA).

UK-based Waterlogic, a global designer, manufacturer, distributor and service provider of purified drinking water dispensers, has acquired QWS Holding and the Quality Water Service...

Credivalores, a Colombian non-banking financial institution, has made its first bond issuance on local markets after the country’s Financial Superintendence (FNG) approved the issu...

Colombian law firm CMS Rodríguez-Azuero has announced the integration of local firm Sanabria & Andrade Abogados, a move which strengthens the former’s dispute resolution area.

Intellectual property consultancy ClarkeModet has appointed Silvia Patiño Rodríguez as its technical and legal services director in Colombia.

Bancolombia has announced its entry into the real estate market through an alliance with CCLA Group, which owns, develops and operates mixed-use for-rental real estate across Latin...

Global law firm CMS has incorporated Colombian firm Yáñez & Asociados, a firm with more than 40 years’ experience in the South American country’s energy market and appointed a ...

Banco Davivienda has made a $500 million global notes issuance, the first by a Colombian bank on the international markets.

Spanish law firm ECIJA has integrated Colombian firm MBCR, marking its entry into the South American country.

SAG Assessment & Consulting, which specializes in the prevention, detection and containment of fraud, corruption and money laundering through the use of forensic technology and...

US-based global consultancy firm FTI Consulting has announced the appointment of María Paula Duque to its senior team in Colombia as managing director within its strategic communic...

Law firm Cuatrecasas has announced the expansion of its Latin America teams, with the hiring and promotion of five new partners in Chile, three in Colombia and one in Mexico.

Colombian lawyer Juan Felipe Merizalde Urdaneta has returned to his homeland after 15 years in France and the US to set up an independent law and arbitration practice.

Business process transformation company Sutherland Global Services has secured a $850 million debt refinancing through its subsidiaries, including SGS Colombia Holding.

Conexig, a global consulting firm in infrastructure, engineering and construction, has announced the addition of a new partner in its Bogotá office, Jairo Iván Sánchez, who will le...

Occidental Petroleum Corporation has sold its onshore Colombian assets to The Carlyle Group for $825 million, in a transaction that will entail a $700 million upfront payment to be...

Colombia has been granted a $163.5 million financing for the construction of an electricity transmission line, the first time the country has procured foreign funds for such a proj...

Colombian law firm Gómez-Pinzón has announced that its partner of 12 years, William Araque Jaimes, has assumed the role of Of Counsel. The new role obeys Araque’s decision to begin...

Conexig has solidified the foundations for its strategic expansion in Latin America, establishing its presence in Colombia.

Garrigues continues to consolidate its offering in Latin America with the hire of Adriana Espinosa to head the infrastructure practice in Colombia. With this addition, Garrigues’ o...

The deal comes as part of Cargill’s business plan for Colombia, which consists of investing up to $500 million  in the country, throughout the next five years.

EY Colombia has advised Gigas Hosting S.A in the acquisition of Ability Data Services, an operator of cloud hosting services in Colombia. The transaction strengthened Gigas’ commer...

Colombia’s President Iván Duque has come in for harsh criticism after a tax-free shopping day on June 19th went ahead amid the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to large crowds descending...

By entering Colombia, Garrigues has bolstered its capacity to work in key areas of business law in the region by creating a 40-lawyer local team in the country.

Local firm Pose Herrera Ruiz and Iberian law giant Cuatrecases announced on September 14th a new alliance to offer legal services to Iberian clients with interest in the Colombian ...

Colombian law firm CMS Rodríguez-Azuero has announced the recruitment of one of the leading lawyers in Colombia focused on the tax and customs practice, Santiago Arbouin. This move...

SGS Colombia has allied with Datacert to present sello de privacidad, the first-ever certification in Colombia on regulatory compliance and good practices in personal data protecti...

Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas in Colombia has appointed Alejandra Bonilla and Pablo Jaramillo as partners.

Chilean shopping mall owner and operator Mallplaza has entered Colombia’s capital Bogotá with the acquisition of the Calima shopping mall.

Colombian law firm Gómez-Pinzón Abogados has appointed its partner Lina Uribe García Lina as director of its corporate and mergers and acquisitions practice, the first woman to lea...

FTI Consulting has strengthened its global risk management and investigation team in Colombia’s capital Bogotá to better serve its Latin American clients.

Godoy y Hoyos Abogados has advised Colombia’s Concesionaria Desarrollo Vial del Mar S.A.S. (Devimar), in the financing of the Autopista al Mar 1, project.

US-based private equity fund I Squared Capital has sold its Peruvian transmission line company Orazul Energy Group to Colombia’s state-owned Interconexión Eléctrica.

On October 27th Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announced the appointment of three new partners and two associates in Colombian Group Dentons Cárdenas & Cárdenas. The ar...

Colombian law firm Posse Herrera Ruiz has added Juan Pablo Bonilla as a partner in the dispute resolution area. This move takes the partner count to 21.

Colombian law firm OlarteMoure has promoted Juan Felipe Acosta, the firm's litigation and ADR area director, to a partner level position, effective June.

Colombia’s Brigard Urrutia announced the strengthening of its corporate/M&A team with the promotion of Fernando Castillo and Tomás Holguín to a partner level positions, effecti...

Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas has expanded its presence in Colombia with the opening of a new office in Medellín, the country’s second-largest city.

Colombian law firm Nieto Abogados has announced the incorporation of two new partners, Paula Duarte and Juan Antonio Vallejo Ordoñez, who bring their experience in wealth managemen...

On December 16th, Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría, major Ibero-American law firm, announced the incorporation of three partners: Eduardo Escalona, from Chile; Diego ...

On January 16th, international law firm CMS announced its expansion in Chile, Peru and Colombia by partnering up with local firms Carey & Allende, GRAU Abogados and Rodríguez A...

Gómez-Pinzón Abogados has advised International Finance Corporation and Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional S.A., as investors of green bonds to be issued by Empresa de Energía del P...

As part of its global expansion plan, US law firm Rimon Law has hired Rodrigo Castillo Cottin as a tax and private client partner in the firm’s first Latin American office to focus...

Gómez Pinzón has advised BTG Pactual US Capital, BTG Pactual., Comisionista de Bolsa, Inverlink and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as placement agents in th...

Miami-based global law firm Diaz Reus International Law Firm & Alliance (DRT) has promoted Javier Coronado to the position of partner in its Bogotá office, and who is an ACAMS-...

On January 1st, Posse Herrera Ruiz announced the appointment of Juan David Velasco and Juan Camilo de Bedouf as new partners in the tax, customs and international trade department....

Gómez Pinzón has advised Empresa de Energía del Pacífico EPSA in the acquisition from its parent company, Celsia, of two operative hydroelectric plants (Hidromontañitas and Rio Pie...

CMS Rodríguez-Azuero continues its growth and consolidation as a full-service global firm, with the integration of Bogotá-based law firm, Escobar García Abogados, a boutique specia...

The new partner has experience as an attorney, professor and author of several books.

Andean Telecom Partners (ATP) has made its first regional debt issuance, for $375 million, comprising 4.05% senior secured notes due 2026.

One year after entering the Colombian market, US-based law firm Rimon Law has announced its merger with Colombian firm Ibarra Abogados.

The Colombian law firm has added Beatriz Molina as counsel.

Softtek has announced it has chosen Colombia as its newest location to strengthen its global digital capabilities, building on its presence in the South American company that stret...

Upfield is set to strengthen its operations in Colombia with the acquisition of Unilever's food-processing plant located in Cali (Valle del Cauca).

Ana Cristina Jaramillo has been named a new partner in the M&A practice of law firm Gómez-Pinzón in Bogotá, making the firm’s female-partner count the largest in any law firm i...