Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

Corporate / M&A, Insolvency

Partner

Partner at PPU expert in Corporate/M&A and Insolvency law. His professional practice focuses on corporate and contractual matters, and commercial proceedings (arbitration and insolvency). He has advised local and international clients structuring and implementing new businesses, joint ventures, corporate matters, commercial contracts, corporate reorganizations and foreign investments. In the last years, he has advised various corporate and M&A deals, having actively participated in the international expansion plans of clients such as Empresas Lipigas, SBA Torres and Synlab Group, among others. He has broad experience in dispute resolutions related to complex distribution transactions and corporate matters, and he is an arbitrator before the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, and the arbitration court of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris.

Spanish, English

Director of private law, Fundación Social group of companies, 1998 - 2000 Partner Cuberos y Cía. Consultores Asociados 1993 - 1997 Legal secretary, Fiducomercio S.A. (a trust entity) 1993 - 1994

He has a Law Degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (1992), a Postgraduate Degree in Commercial Law from Universidad de Los Andes (1994) and an LL.M. on International Business Law, graduated with merit from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, United Kingdom (1998). He was the winner of a JICA fellowship for Private Sector Middle Management for Pacific Cooperation, Tokyo, Japan (1994).