Full Service Law Firm in Bogota, Colombia

Law Firm Overview

Posse, Herrera & Ruiz is a full-service law firm that uses a systematic, multidisciplinary approach to finding creative, prudent and value generating business solutions, which optimize the client’s return on investment while minimizing risks.

Its partners have extensive and very successful experience in energy and natural resources, mergers and acquisitions, tax planning and international commerce, financing law and capital markets, dispute resolution, competition law, intellectual property, infrastructure and PPPs. real estate development projects and trust.


Languages: Spanish, English, French, and Italian.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

The firm has extensive experience which has earned it a region – wide reputation in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of integration transactions, and has participated in many of the largest acquisitions and privatizations in Colombia. The Firm has represented sellers, buyers and investment bankers in a wide range of M&A transactions and due diligences of companies in sectors such as consumer products, financial, health, energy, mining, retail and insurance.

- Competition Law

Given the firm’s M&A and consumer products experience, it has developed a significant and successful competition practice, dealing with anti-trust merger reviews, dominant positions, restrictive commercial practices and litigation.

- Corporate Law

Posse, Herrera & Ruiz is a full-service firm covering a broad spectrum of specialized fields, providing clients with comprehensive legal counseling. Posse, Herrera & Ruiz acts as regular outside counsel for many corporations in Colombia in areas that include manufacturing, distribution, construction, engineering, concessions, oil and gas, mining, power generation, chemical products, financial services, consumer products, telecommunications, service and health industries.

The firm advises clients on a wide range of corporate, contract, tax and labor matters and handles their dispute resolution and litigation.

- Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Bankruptcy and Reorganizations

Chambers & Partners ranks Posse, Herrera & Ruiz in the tier for arbitration and top litigation in Colombia. The firm has successfully represented commercial banks, insurers, savings and loan institutions, investment banks, manufacturing, distribution and service companies in a broad range of matters before national courts, as well as in national and international arbitration.

The firm has also represented creditors, financial advisors, and major domestic and foreign financial institutions in some of Colombia's largest rehabilitation proceedings, workouts, debt reschedulings, refinancing and bankruptcies.

- Financial Law & Capital Markets

Posse, Herrera & Ruiz has a recognized reputation in financial legal services. The firm has acted as legal counsel for banks in most of the large syndicated loans granted by national and international financial institutions to the private sector

The banking sector prefers our firm above any other when structuring large bilateral and syndicate loans. Recently, the firm has been involved in the design and structuring of diverse capital market transactions, including bond emissions, financial products including derivatives, syndicated loans, structured notes for institutional investors, project finance and other innovative products.

- Infrastructure and PPPs

The firm has successfully acted as legal counsel for both state-owned companies in structuring public-private partnerships (PPPs) and private parties wishing to participate in PPP projects, dealing with public procurement laws, government budget laws and debt regulation, among others. The success of the Firm is the product on our ability to coordinate our different areas of expertise in order to have a financeable project, efficient from a tax, corporate, and administrative law perspective.

Recently, the Firm has been involved in structuring three of the major PPP projects undertaken by the Colombian Government, in the hydrocarbons, telecommunications and road concession sectors.

- Mergers and Acquisitions

The firm has extensive experience which has earned it a region – wide reputation in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of integration transactions, and has participated in many of the largest acquisitions and privatizations in Colombia. The Firm has represented sellers, buyers and investment bankers in a wide range of M&A transactions and due diligences of companies in sectors such as consumer products, financial, health, energy, mining, retail and insurance.

Our M&A work is complemented with a strong anti-trust practice.

- Natural Resources and Energy

Posse, Herrera & Ruiz is a leader in natural resources and energy law in Colombia, providing legal counsel to multinational companies in oil and gas, mining and power generation activities.
Lawyers from Posse, Herrera & Ruiz have broad experience in this sector since some having advised the Ministries of Mines and Energy and Environment.

Our lawyers have diverse experience, from participating in the structuring process of the first equity fund for the investment in E&P projects in Colombia, to the incorporation of a private partnership to develop the Cartagena Refinery Facility, for Ecopetrol S.A., to sitting on Boards of major corporations and being general counsel.

Current clients include major and independent oil companies, large and small mining companies, power generators and providers of goods and services to the industry.

- Tax Planning and International Commerce

The Firm provides a comprehensive range of tax, customs and foreign trade services, associated with business needs and tax planning in investment projects.

Our scope of services includes tax support in the filing and performance of customs and tax obligations, in addition to tax advise for financial investment models, in order to optimize taxes.

Our Firm provides legal representation to national and foreign companies before Colombian authorities, with respect to filings, authorizations, appeals, and recognition of applicable tax benefits. Our support to clients also includes tax litigation.

Among the services offered, our Firm stands out in the follow-up of corporate restructuring, purchasing, and selling processes with operations in Colombia.

Furthermore, our firm is an active participant in matters regarding application of bilateral and multilateral tax conventions, development and approval of free-trade zones, negotiations of stability agreements with the Colombian government, and structuring of trusts.

Posse, Herrera & Ruiz is particularly active in tax matters associated with financial, capital market, and infrastructure matters and in the natural resources and energy sectors subjects.

- Intellectual Property

The firm advises domestic and foreign clients in all Intellectual Property aspects, including trademark, patent, industrial design, software and copyright search, filing, prosecution and litigation; domain name registration; drafting and negotiation of technology licenses and technology transfer agreements, software licenses, franchises, technical assistance and services; unfair competition claims; and due diligence support for M&A transactions.

The team has wide experience in global management of IP portfolios.

- Real Estate Development Projects and Trust

Posse, Herrera & Ruiz advises national and international companies in the development of urban and rural real estate projects, from the structuring phase to their operation and/or divestment. Projects include shopping centers, hotels and resorts, agro-industry and housing developments, among others. The firm handles the urban and administrative proceedings before State agencies.

The team is experienced in advising on the acquisition of properties, the creation of trusts, real estate securitizations, urban renewal projects and matters relating to licensing procedures before municipal and other governmental entities.

Affiliations

Partners

	Miss Alessia Abello Partner Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Business and Industry, Capital Markets, Commercial Law		Mr. Ernesto Cavalier Partner Intellectual Property
	Mr. Jaime Herrera Partner Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Business and Industry, Commercial Law, Energy		Mr. Andrés Montoya Partner Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Debtor and Creditor, Litigation, Real Estate
	Ms. Carolina Posada Partner Litigation		Mr. Daniel Posse Partner Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Litigation
	Mrs. Mariana Posse Partner Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Capital Markets, Debtor and Creditor		Mr. Álvaro José Rodríguez Partner Business and Industry, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources
	Mr. Juan Guillermo Ruiz Partner Corporate Taxation, Tax, Tax Planning		Mr. José Alejandro Torres Partner Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Capital Markets, Commercial Law, Finance
	Mr. Francisco Urrutia Partner Business and Industry, Business Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Governance, Energy

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