Corporate / M&A

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Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

Bogota, Colombia

+57 601 3268600

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Deals

Grupo Bancolombia: Counsel in the entering into a joint venture with Patria Investments for the management and development of a platform of alternative assets.

Toyota Tsusho Corporation: Counsel in the investment in Moova Inc, in Perú, Chile and Colombia.

Publicis Groupe: Counsel in Colombian jurisdiction matters pertaining to the acquisition of Practia Group, a digital transformation multinational.

BGSF Professional LLC: Counsel in the acquisition of Micro Talent S.A.S.

Cenit Transporte y Logistica de Hidrocarburos S.A.S: Counsel in the acquisition of a hyidroelectric plant.

Kaufmann Ventures (Güil): Counsel in the seed round they led in the Colombian startup Velocity-X.

Inversiones Kaufmann Limitada: Counsel in the acquisition of Daimler Colombia S.A. from the Daimler Group (Germany).

Ferro Limited: Counsel in the acquisition of a 32.36% of Hojalata y Laminados S.A. for US$10 million from Metal One Corporation from Japan by means of a share purchase agreement and a reacquisition agreement.

Cititrust Colombia S.A: Counsel in the VGMobility financing project

Alpha Holding S.A. de C.V: Counsel in the completion of the Chapter 11 reorganization Plan for US$86.7M.

HPX Corporation: Counsel in its worldwide business combination with Emergência Participações S.A.

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Team Services

Highly specialized in Corporate and M&A matters. Its lawyers have been involved in complex transactions and are renowned for providing creative and efficient legal advice. In addition to delivering timely advice and practical solutions to clients facing a wide variety of legal and business challenges, PPU provides multinational companies with high quality services as a consequence of its extensive international practice.

Our practice area provides corporate clients with all the tools needed to manage both the day-to-day matters and the strategic issues that may arise from each transaction, merger or acquisition. PPU offers its clients legal advice in different fields, such as:

Corporate structuring and incorporation of investment vehicles.
Formation of private equity funds.
Preparation and negotiation of commercial contracts.
Permanent assistance in corporate matters.
Legal advice in connection to Corporate Governance.
Domestic and international transactions and due diligence processes.
Business reorganizations, integrations, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and control takeovers.
National and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Structuring and execution of public offerings.

Testimonials

“The attention we received in our transaction was excellent: a very professional team, with excellent negotiation skills that allowed us to achieve all the objectives that we set for ourselves as sellers. The level of PPU’s lawyers was above expectations and far exceeded the counterparty’s lawyers”.

“Billings are correct. Lawyers are very customer friendly, always listening and extremely strong from a technical point of view. For me, the firm stands as an example in Latin America”.

“A multidisciplinary firm with a good geographical footprint. Professionals are top-level in technical and commercial aspects and adapt to the needs of the client”.

“We value the team’s commitment, knowledge, understanding of our needs and its ability to anticipate and execute in each situation. Its way of teaming up with the client is special: all lawyers are at the forefront of the deal, executing and making things happen. It can do super structured transactions in record time”.