About

One of Colombia’s largest companies in terms of energy generation, the previously state-owned enterprise ISAGEN was sold to Canadian Brookfield Asset Management in 2016 for a sum of COL$6.5tn. Headquartered in Medellín and having experienced other changes in its structure in the last decade, the company’s legal team has had to deal with a number of regulatory and legal challenges connected with both its recent sale and its continuing day-to-day operations. Providing support to the business across a range of issues amidst the background of a volatile market sector, the legal team – comprised of several qualified lawyers acting as specialists in a diverse number of practice areas – is known for being a group of motivated, dedicated and talented legal professionals. Despite circumstances that have been testing for the company and its lawyers, ISAGEN and its new parent company can be confident that the protection and facilitation of the company’s projects across seven generation plants in Colombia will be executed properly. In what can be considered a new start for the company under its new ownership, the legal team of ISAGEN will be crucial in setting an example not only as upholders of high ethical standards but as competent business partners also. Juan Carlos Rivera Salazar is the current business management legal director at the company, having accrued over 15 years of experience at the group.