Ms Julia Velásquez > Holland & Knight > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
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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)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.