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Lawyers

Luz María Mercado

Work Department

Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Corporate / M&A

Position

Associate

Career

Principal Associate member of the Corporate/M&A and Banking, Finance and Capital Markets teams. Her professional practice focuses on corporate matters, as well as mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. She has acted as advisor to national and international clients, including Brookfield Asset Management in the acquisition of 57.61%stake in ISAGEN and the subsequent public offers for the acquisition of an additional 42% stake. She also advised Grupo Argos in the acquisition of the 45.75% stake in Odinsa SA, Grupo Energía Bogotá in corporate matters and in the selling process of its holdings in Promigas, ISA, Banco Popular and Grupo Nutresa, as well as to other international issuers in their international bond offers.​

Languages

Spanish, English

Education

Luz María has a Law Degree from Universidad de Los Andes (2006). She also has a Post-graduate Degree in Public Management and Administrative Institutions (2007) and an LLM from University of Pennsylvania (2013).