07/10/2020
https://www.legal500.com/c/colombia/city-focus/medellxedn/
-Key figure and senior partner Luis Fernando Álvarez Jaramillo is a renowned public law specialist (both administrative and constitutional), with a prestigious public-sector career (including as both Magistrate and President of the Consejo del Estado).The team’s current mandates include a COP$5bn demand against Corantioquia on behalf of power producer Gen+; while Álvarez' recent arbitral appointments include as party-appointed arbitrator in Zandor Capital v Consorcio Pozos de Colombia (mining) and Castell Camel and Pórticos Ingenieros Cíviles v el Distrito Capital (construction). Luisa Fernanda Álvarez Zuluaga has an LLM in international dispute resolution with a specialisation in fintech-related arbitration and is leading the firm’s push into international law, on the one hand, and - in conjunction with associate Alejandro Álvarez - IA, IT and data protection, on the other. This engagement with technology issues also has a certain crossover with the firm’s ‘Young Entrepreneurs’ program which facilitates affordable legal advice to start-ups. The firm also employs other teams as required - notably that of Hito Consultoría Jurídica with which the firm recently undertook the co-representation of consulting engineers Ingeniería Estructural in a $3.5m case before administrative courts.
Work highlights:
-Representing power-producer Gen+ in a COP5bn suit against Corantioquia resulting from the denial of an environmental licence.
-Representing infrastructure-construction consortium Devimed in a COP$3bn extracontractual liability suit brought by the inhabitants of Cantera Las Nieves in relation to a landslide on the Medellín-Bogotá highway.
-Representing Devimed in a COP$18n case brought by the Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura (INA) on economic grounds; the matter was resolved in conciliation.
-Representing Termocandelaria in a COP$35bn nullity and restoration procedure brought against the Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos (case handled in conjunction with Gómez Pinzón Abogados with Dr Álvarez as lead lawyer).
-Advice to and representation of advertising company Publik, in a COP$3bn demand.
