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
According to clients, Holland & Knight ‘cares about understanding the business realities and contexts of the companies it advises’. The group continues to consolidate its position in the market following the firm’s May 2023 absorption of Cuberos Cortés Gutiérrez Abogados, and it added several new clients during 2023/24, including Opp Film Colombia and Boston Scientific. Arguably best known for its record in cross-border transactions, where it can link up with its wider international network, the team also handles domestic M&A and advisory matters. Executive office partner Enrique Gómez-Pinzón, who operates from Bogotá and Washington DC, steers the practice. Other recommended partners include Gustavo Cuberos, who contributes ‘seriousness and dynamism’; Julia Velásquez, who is ‘a great leader’; Alba Malagón, who specialises in corporate and finance deals; and transactional energy specialists José Vicente Zapata
and Ines Elvira Vesga. Associates Natalia Cuberos, Diana Paola Serrano and Isabella Díaz are also noted.