Ms Julia Velásquez > Holland & Knight > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Holland & Knight Offices
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Torre A, Piso 8
Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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Ms Julia Velásquez
Work Department
Corporate Services | Mergers and Acquisitions
Position
Partner
Career
Julia Velásquez Torres is a corporate attorney at Holland & Knight’s Bogotá office. Ms. Velásquez Torres focuses her practice on a variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions.
Ms. Velásquez has advised sellers and buyers in national and transnational acquisitions of local companies, asset disposals, joint ventures and complex corporate operations. She has extensive transactional experience in various sectors, including retail, food and beverage, mining, transportation, pharmaceutical, agribusiness, private equity funds, logistics and technology.
Ms. Velásquez also is secretary of arbitration tribunals for the Center for Arbitration and Conciliation of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and professor of Negotiation and Contracts at the Universidad de los Andes for the course “Legal English for Business.”
Languages
English, Spanish
Education
- Universidad Externado de Colombia, Specialization, State Contracting
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, LL.M.
- Universidad de los Andes, Specialization, International Business Law
- Universidad de los Andes, J.D.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Corporate and M&A
(Next Generation Partners)‘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.