Ms Alba Malagón > Holland & Knight > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Holland & Knight Offices
Carrera 7 # 71-21
Torre A, Piso 8
Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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Ms Alba Malagón
Work Department
Corporate Services | Mergers and Acquisitions
Position
Partner
Career
Alba Malagón is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight’s Bogotá office. Ms. Malagón has more than 15 years of experience in rendering legal services and legal guidance to national and international clients in the incorporation and development of their business activities in Colombia, including involved transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to complete the full cycle of their commercial expansion.
Ms. Malagón acts as counsel for the day-to-day operation of enterprises, in a variety of industries and sectors, which include drafting the best structures to do business, applying governance mechanisms for incorporated and unincorporated ventures, and support in the relationship between relevant or interested parties. She also advises clients in the implementation of efficiencies for legal management of contracts, aimed at process standardization and the representation in the negotiation of agreements for an adequate distribution of risks.
Ms. Malagón has also advised borrowers on syndicated loans, as well as startups in the structure of legal mechanisms for private capital investments and for the undertaking of adequate guarantees to secure the company’s and shareholder’s rights and assets.
In addition to her transactional work, Ms. Malagón provides general counsel on compliance with applicable bankruptcy regulation in Colombia (reorganization and judicial liquidation).
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Malagón practiced at other Colombian law firms.
Ms. Malagón has been a professor of the legal English course at Universidad de los Andes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Universidad del Norte.
Languages
English, Spanish
Education
- Universidad Externado de Colombia, Postgraduate Degree, Energy and Mining Law with Emphasis on Mines and Oil
- Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M.
- Universidad de los Andes, Postgraduate Degree, International Business Law
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, J.D.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Corporate and M&A
‘Attentive, judicious and always willing to provide top-level advice’, Holland & Knight shored up its corporate offering in May 2023 with its absorption of former tier four-ranked firm, Cuberos Cortés Gutiérrez Abogados. Among the new additions, the department welcomed Gustavo Cuberos, a founding partner at his previous firm, Alba Malagón, who is noted for her experience in cross-border transactions, and next-generation partner Julia Velásquez. The department continues to be steered by executive office partner Enrique Gómez-Pinzón, who splits his time between Bogotá and Washington DC. The team also draws on the senior level expertise of transactional energy specialists José Vicente Zapata and Ines Elvira Vesga, while associates Natalia Cuberos, Diana Paola Serrano and Isabella Díaz provide support. Former department co-head Lucas Saffon-López left the firm in May 2022.