About

Ciudad Limpia’s legal department brings expert legal assistance and support to five different corporations, namely, Ciudad Limpia Bogotá, Ciudad Limpia Neiva, Ciudad Limpia del Huila, Ecolimpia and Ecotrans. The legal department is based in Bogotá and comprised of three lawyers and one support staff who are led by legal director Jorge Luis Castro Bernal. Liliana Páez is in charge of commercial and labour matters, and Viviana Ruiz is in charge of administrative law matters, including public bids, and public utilities. In Neiva there is one lawyer, legal assistant Angie Jiménez Moreno, who was recently added to the team. From 2016 to 2018 the department worked on the public bid issued by the Municipality of Bogota whose purpose was to select five public utilities companies that exclusively, and for a period of eight years, render the waste management service in five areas, each one an exclusive area. As a result of the participation in the public tender, Ciudad Limpia Bogotá was awarded with one of the exclusive areas. The estimated value of the eight year contract is US$240m and the served area is composed of approximately two million people. In order to comply with the level of investment required for the purchase of necessary vehicles and equipment to provide the service in the exclusive area, the department provided legal assistance during the negotiation and in the execution of a contract of credit worth approximately US$22m. Asked about the team’s ethos, Castro Bernal explains that the team exhibits ‘seriousness, respect of the law, honesty and compromise with the companies that we advise, so that we can provide them with effective and responsible legal advice’.