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Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla

Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla

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Lorenzo is a Partner for the Firm in the Technology, Media & Communications (TMC) and Antitrust, Competition & Trade practices and coheads the Dispute Resolution team.

Position

Partner

Career

Lorenzo is a Partner for the Firm in the Technology, Media & Communications (TMC) and Antitrust, Competition & Trade practices and coheads the Dispute Resolution team. He has more than 21 years of experience advising national and international clients on matters of data protection and privacy, technology, Internet, fintech, e-commerce and telecommunications. Also, he has significant experience in regulation and arbitration.

Lorenzo is a recognized expert in telecommunications and Internet law and has advised on matters related to disruptive technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, fintech, cyber-security, start-ups and telecommunications regulatory issues. In terms of privacy and data protection, Lorenzo has advised national and foreign companies in the implementation of the Colombian data protection law and has significant academic experience in these matters.

Likewise, he has advised and represented in competition matters. He has been a professor at different universities in law and regulation of telecommunications, Internet, electronic commerce, data protection, arbitration and constitutional law.

Languages

Spanish, English and French

Memberships

Member of the New York Bar Association. Young Arbitrators Forum, Internacional Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Grupo de Estudios en Internet, Comercio Electrónico, Telecomunicaciones e Informática – GECTI, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes Réseaux de Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation, MADP-Science Po Asociación Iberoamericana de Estudios de Regulación, ASIER Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), London Court of International Arbitration – LCIA Association de Droit Public de l´Économie, Universidad de París 2 International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Young & International Association, American Arbitration Association – AAA

Education

2004 – Master in Economic Public Law (DESS), University of Paris 2 Pantheon Assas, Paris, France 2003 – Master in Constitutional law – with honors (DSU), University of Paris 2 Pantheon Assas, Paris, France 2002 – International training program in utilities regulation and strategies – focus in telecommunications, University of Florida and the World Bank, Gainesville, Florida 2000 – Lawyer, University of Los Andes, Law School, Bogotá, Colombia 2001 – B.A. Political Science, University of Los Andes, Political Science department, Bogotá, Colombia

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