Suma Legal

Director of the areas of contractual, fiduciary, real estate, insurance and healthcare law, and litigation in civil liability, insurance, contractual and extra-contractual matters, state patrimonial liability, insurance law, fiduciary matters, real estate and urban law, corporate and healthcare law.

Partner.

With over 28 years of experience advising companies and handling litigation on behalf of companies from various sectors of the economy, such as insurance entities, pension fund administrators, health promotion entities, health service providers, ambulance and prepaid medicine companies, cement companies, transportation companies, trust entities, real estate sector companies, food companies, and public entities such as the Government of Antioquia.

The areas of professional activity mainly involve advisory services in contract, fiduciary, real estate, insurance, and health matters, as well as litigation in matters of civil liability, insurance, contractual and non-contractual liability, state patrimony, insurance law, fiduciary matters, real estate and urban law, corporate law, and health law.

He has also served as the general secretary of some companies.

In litigation and/or arbitration, he has acted and continues to act as legal representative for plaintiffs or defendants, both public and private entities, handling cases in various areas, including nullity actions, direct reparation actions, contractual and non-contractual civil liability claims, insurance, real estate law, fiduciary business, health sector, among others, popular actions, group actions, consumer actions, among others.

He is or has been an external advisor and lawyer for companies or entities such as: SEGUROS GENERALES SURAMERICANA S.A.; FIDUCIARIA CORFICOLOMBIANA S.A.; CEMENTOS ARGOS S.A., GOBERNACION DE ANTIOQUIA y FABRICA DE LICORES Y ALCOHOLES DE ANTIOQUIA, EPS SURAMERICANA S.A., SERVICIOS DE SALUD IPS SURAMERICANA S.A.S.; CONCRETOS ARGOS S.A., LOGITRANS S.A., C.I. PROBAN S.A., GRUPO EMI S.A., COLMÉDICA S.A. y ALIANSALUD EPS, CLÍNICA UNIVERSITARIA BOLIVARIANA, amongst others.

He has published writings on civil liability of individuals, state patrimony, and insurance in journals of the Colombian Institute of Civil Liability and the State, and in the book "Civil Liability, Insurance Law, and Philosophy of Law - Studies in honor of Javier Tamayo Jaramillo." Volume II. Instituto Colombiano de Responsabilidad Civil y del Estado (IARCE), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Biblioteca Jurídica Dike (2011).

He has also been a professor of insurance law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana at the undergraduate level and has been a professor of Civil Liability and/or Insurance topics at postgraduate level at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Uiversidad Autónoma Latinoamericana in Medellin, Universidad San Buenaventura in Cali in convention with Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana  in Medellin, Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Universidad EAFIT in Medellin, among others.

He has also taught courses on fiduciary business in the real estate sector in the specializations in Urban Law at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and Eafit.

Spanish (native language)

List A arbitrator for the Centros de Arbitraje de las Cámaras de Comercio of Medellin for Antioquia, Bogota, and Cali. Also, Amicable Compositeur of the Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio of Medellin for Antioquia. He is also member of the Instituto Colombiano de Responsabilidad Civil y del Estado (IARCE). He is currently a member, either as principal or alternate member, but always with active participation, of the boards of directors of some companies, such as Aceros Mapa S.A., Productos El Rey S.A. Triguisar S.A., RBF S.A.S., and Corporación Country Club de Ejecutivos.

Degree in Law from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin (1996); He has a diplomas in Medical Law with an emphasis on Civil Liability from Universidad Nuestra Señora del Rosario (1997); Degree in specialization in Arbitration from Universidad Eafit in Medellin (2004); Degree in specialization in Civil Liability and Insurance from Universidad Eafit (2005); Degree in specialization in Urban Law from Universidad Nuestra Señora del Rosario (2018); and a Diploma in Arbitration Litigation from the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá.