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The in-house legal team at Terranum stands out for its talent and composed handling of legal affairs within a rapidly growing real estate group in Colombia. Terranum is Colombia’s market leader and pioneer in the development, operation and owning of leasable office, logistic, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties in Colombia. Led by Laura Vejarano, vice president, general counsel and corporate affairs, the legal team is comprised of four different teams according to the company’s core business activities. Vejarano highlights that ‘the 12 strong team includes Alejandra Beltrán, utilities and zoning counsel; Ana María Palomar, real estate structuring and development counsel; Pedro Puente, corporate, commercial, leasing counsel; and Juana Sabogal, communications and corporate social responsibility director’. Within the last three years the team’s headcount has been reduced, because of the senior’s team capability to implement efficiencies and put in place simplified processes that impacted positively the relationship with and delivery to internal clients and other stakeholders, such as banks and trustees. The team, with its new structure, has achieved highly over this time with work on two joint venture divestments, migration of the company into a private equity fund structure, bringing WeWork as a tenant to one project and developing and leasing Amazon’s first corporate building in Latin America. It has successfully overcome land restrictions through the implementation of complex legal and communications strategies as well as arbitration and criminal procedures.