About

Ciudad Limpia is a waste management business that operates in cities across Latin America. The Colombian legal team consists of four lawyers and one non-lawyer, who support the company in its operations across Bogotá, Neiva, Cali and Cartagena. Led by legal director Jorge Luis Castro – who featured on the GC Powerlist: Colombia in 2016 as recognition of his impressive personal career – the team has created a number of innovations in the recent past. According to Castro, one of the team’s most impressive feats has been the construction of ‘an important legal database’. This database contains ‘a compilation of applicable laws, decrees and jurisprudence in many law areas, such as corporate, commercial, administrative, environmental and public utilities law; as well as drafts of contracts and other kind of legal documents’. Using the knowledge that is instilled in the team, Ciudad Limpia is a formidable party in the negotiation and execution of contracts with municipalities. The work of the team means that the company can maintain its key pieces of work and continue to provide jobs for its 1,200 employees. The mantra of the legal team is one that peers across the world could follow – according to Castro they ‘overcome challenges with honesty, responsibility, expertise, and legal and technical knowledge’.