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CEPSA’s legal manager for Latin America, Cesar Augusto Lozano Gutierrez, leads the legal area based in Colombia which covers the region for the Spanish oil and gas company. Consisting of three lawyers and two joint venture specialists, the legal area is a multidisciplinary team who manage the three areas of legal support, compliance and joint venture, and partnerships. Valeria Salazar, a lawyer with renowned experience in the oil and gas sector, together with Lina Marin and Rocio Duran, manage all of the relationships with public entities and joint ventures with partners. Alejandra Morales, a lawyer with solid experience in corporate and contractual law, provides legal support and handles matters related to compliance procedures. During 2018 the team successfully processed several due diligence procedures, farm-out agreements and obtained a perfect record of fulfilments with contractual obligations to Atlas Nord Hydrocarbures (ANH) and jurisdictional litigations. Lozano Gutierrez highlights that ‘we are not legal auditors or suppliers of legal opinions. We are a suppliers of legal solutions. Our legal team understands that our objective is to be an essential part of the business. In that sense, it is not possible to provide satisfactory legal support if we do not know the technical and financial core of the business’.