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Grupo Empresarial Colombina is a global food company that endeavours to delight consumers with its winning combination of innovation and great tasting products. It is anchored by its strong master brand which endorses a wide range of well-known and highly regarded product brands as Bon Bon Bum, Coffee Delight, Nucita and Choco Break, among others. With presence in more than 90 countries around the world. In addition, Colombina is committed to a sustainability strategy, which engages all stakeholders. Colombina’s legal team are directly involved as an active part of the strategic deployment of Colombina business group. Hernán Darío Mejía Álvarez, vice president legal and corporate affairs and general secretary, leads the legal team and is supported by three in-house lawyers: Manuel Alejandro Romero Burbano, Lina Maria Betancourth Betancur and Daniela Londoño Restrepo. In the last two years, the team has experienced the retirement of one of our colleagues that had been with the company for more than 25 years. It has required the reshuffling of responsibilities and the restructuring of the team’s connection within the company’s management. In addition, the team has been making strides in terms of transaction value. The team contributed to the company’s acquisition of FIESTA’s core business, a Spanish company by FIESTA COLOMBINA, a Colombina subsidiary. It also worked on the acquisition of 100% of CAPSA’s shares, a Guatemalan confectionery company, from the Pantaleon Group. Additionally, at the time of writing, the team is working on the ordinary bond issuance and placement program that Colombina is preparing to launch to the Colombian Securities Market sometime between May and June 2019, with a global amount of COL$300bn. Mejía Álvarez highlights the quality of the legal team and its strategy, saying: ‘We believe that all efforts that we make alone are worthless than the things that we can achieve together as a team’.