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Andrés  Parias

Andrés Parias

Esguerra JHR, Colombia

Work Department

Corporate / M&A

Position

Partner of the Corporate / M&A areas of practice

Career

Andrés worked as an Attorney at the Superintendence of Securities, Legal Advisor of the National Planning Department and Director of Commerce and Financing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

He also worked at the Fund for the Financing of the Agricultural Sector – FINAGRO, where he held the positions of Legal Director, General Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer and Acting President.

Before joining this Firm, he was Deputy Superintendent for Public Enforcement (Deputy Superintendent for Inspection, Surveillance and Control) of the Superintendence of Companies, where he also served as Acting Superintendent on several occasions.

He is Professor of Corporate Law at the Undergraduate and in postgraduate programs of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Bogotá, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Cali, Universidad de la Sabana, EAFIT University (Medellín) and the Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla).

Languages

Spanish and English

Education

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Lawyer, 1999. Honorific Degree for the thesis on judicial functions of the Superintendence of Companies. Bogotá, Colombia, 1999. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Business Law Specialist, Bogotá, Colombia, 2002. Universidad Externado de Colombia, MBA. Bogotá, Colombia, 2017.

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