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Natalia García Arenas

Work Department

Corporate/M&A

Position

Partner.

Career

Natalia is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, has advanced studies in Financial Legislation from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the School of Law at Columbia University in New York.

Lawyer with more than 19 years of professional experience, associated to the Firm since 2002. Her practice focuses mainly on Mergers & Acquisitions and financing operations. She has advised companies in the real sector, financial institutions, and national and international private equity funds. She also worked as an international associate in the offices of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP in New York City.

Partner of the Firm and member of the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group, Natalia has extensive experience advising local and international buyers and sellers, including private equity funds, during the process of acquiring and selling companies, from the due process legal diligence, structuring, documentation and negotiation of the documents of the transaction, the request of approvals to governmental entities, until the advice in the closing and post-closing of the transaction. The main acquisition processes in which she  has worked have involved both regulated and unregulated companies in all types of sectors, including, among others, the financial and insurance sector, mining and hydrocarbons, thermoelectric, services, retail, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, transport and entertainment.

As a member of the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice, Natalia has advised mainly financing operations, both Colombian companies and local and international financial institutions. She has extensive experience in documenting and negotiating financing documents and in the structuring of guarantees.

Languages

English, Spanish

Memberships

IBA Member.

Education

Attorney from Universidad Javeriana; Specialist in Financial Law from Universidad de Los Andes; LL.M from Columbia University School of Law.

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