About

Corficolombiana’s legal team is a diverse and talented group of lawyers who are, in the words of the team’s leader, ‘highly committed and business oriented, that have the ability to understand the financial and commercial aspects of the business and at the same time apply the legal rigour to the different, and in most cases challenging, transactions that a company such as Corficolombiana is involved in’. The team culture is guided by internal and external client orientation, legal rigour, commitment, teamwork and spirit of cooperation. The legal team has a legal manager-secretary general, Marcela Acuña Ramirez, who is Corficolombiana’s legal head and is also the secretary general of the board of directors and the shareholders meetings. The team has two legal directors, firstly, financial legal director Sharon Diazgranados Peluffo who is responsible for legal support in all aspects related to the financial legal issues including the treasury, financial transactions with local and international clients and counterparties, investment banking and investments in the financial sector. On the other hand, infrastructure legal director Alvaro Miguel Oeding is responsible for coordinating the legal support related to infrastructure regulation and investments. The legal team includes nine senior and junior lawyers that support the legal manager-secretary general and the legal directors. Recently the team has shown strategic and active participation in restructuring Corficolombiana’s participation in 4G toll road projects in Colombia, legal support for the company’s participation in new infrastructure projects in Colombia, and structuring the new integrated commercial model and shared services unit for Corficolombiana and its financial affiliates. The latter was recently implemented and has brought significant changes to the whole organisation of the company. The team has also worked on restructuring Corficolombiana’s participation in the local and international financial sector by liquidating one of its affiliates in Panama and one in Colombia, which are no longer strategic investments for Corficolombiana, and the legal aspects of Corficolombiana’s investment affiliates. These affiliates not only pertain to the financial sector, which were the traditional affiliates of the company, but also the subsidiaries that are part of the real economic sector, which have become more strategic and important for the business in recent years.