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After gaining over 15 years of experience in M&A, corporate finance, corporate law and private equity at top law firms in Colombia, in 2009 Natalia Camacho joined Altra Investments, a pioneering private equity firm with over US$500m assets under management who invest in midcap companies in the Andean Region, primarily Colombia and Peru. As Altra’s legal vice president and compliance officer, she structured the company’s legal department establishing and strengthening corporate policies and procedures in line with high international market standards in the process. Since then Camacho has contributed significantly to the organisation by structuring and negotiating complex transactions for achieving value-added propositions for Altra’s portfolio companies. As she explains, ‘we have been the first to do certain things in the local market (first private equity insurance, first comprehensive compliance program for a private equity portfolio base company etc.)’. to this end, Camacho participated in the fundraising process for a fund that closed in 2013 with US$350m capital commitments from European, American and Latin American investors by leading negotiations on limited partnership agreements with investors as well as working on the fund’s structuring. More recently she has earned credit from peers for the leading role she played on the 2016 sale of Digitex to Carlyle Group, the 2017 mezzanine loan to Reve Group and the 2018 sale of Proenfar to Weener Plastics Group. In addition Camacho’s implementation of a compliance program in Altra and its portfolio companies were also highlighted by nominators.