Mr Edwin Cortés > Holland & Knight > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Edwin Cortés
Work Department
Infraestructure | Project Finance | Mergers and Acquisitions | Corporate Governance | Public-Private Partnerships | International Arbitration and Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Edwin Cortés Mejía is an attorney in Holland & Knight’s Bogotá office and is licensed in Colombia and New York. Mr. Cortés has more than 25 years of professional experience and focuses his practice on infrastructure projects, especially in the areas of transportation, telecommunications, construction and public concessions. He has extensive experience advising clients in complex matters related to government procurement, project finance and multilateral negotiations.
Mr. Cortés advises national and international clients on issues related to tenders and other forms of government contracting, as well as on forms of private contracting and project structuring. He has experience in accompanying financial closings and implementation of debt structures, mergers, spinoffs, acquisitions, dissolution and liquidation of asset purchase and sale companies, shareholder agreements and establishment of corporate governance structures.
In addition, Mr. Cortés has in-depth arbitration knowledge as a former member of the Secretaries of Arbitration Courts of the Arbitration and Conciliation Center of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce and of its list of arbitrators. He currently acts as a litigator before the Center for Arbitration and Conciliation in matters of infrastructure and state contracting.
In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Cortés has served as a university professor since 2003, mainly in the subjects of Comparative Law – U.S. Legal Entities at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, as well as U.S. Contracts at the Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla. For many years, he taught commercial arbitration programs at the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Arbitration and Conciliation.
Languages
English, Spanish
Memberships
- Latin American and Caribbean Law Alumni Advisory Board, Georgetown University Law Center, 2014-Present
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., International Legal Studies
- Universidad del Rosario, J.D.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Projects
(Firms to watch)Holland & Knight’s projects team is gaining traction in the market, with its ability to leverage a prominent energy practice among its key attributes. María Juliana Saa spearheads a department that now includes Edwin Cortés, following the firm’s May 2023 absorption of Cuberos, Cortés, Gutiérrez Abogados.
Colombia > Public law
Holland & Knight’s public law practice is well versed across a broad range of infrastructure, constitutional and administrative law matters but it is arguably best known for its focus on public environmental law and energy-related work, where department co-head and natural resources specialist, José Vicente Zapata
, is a key contact. The team is additionally co-led by Juan Casallas, who is an up-and-coming partner for dispute resolution involving constitutional and administrative law issues; and Edwin Cortés, who joined in May 2023 — following the firm’s absorption of Cuberos Cortés Gutiérrez — and specialises in infrastructure projects. Associate José Rengifo provides support on energy and infrastructure litigation.