CMS Rodríguez-Azuero’s Bogotá practice forms a key part of the global firm’s regional antitrust offering, with multinational clients valuing its ‘helpful and practical competition guidance to foreign entities doing business in Colombia’. The team is primarily engaged on non-contentious matters, with its recent work spanning merger reviews and day-to-day compliance matters, but it also has experience in investigations and unfair competition litigation. TMT specialist Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla fronts the group, while junior associate Alejandra Vásquez provides support. Senior associate María Camila Piedrahita left to go freelance in June 2023.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘We appreciate the firm’s expertise. It provides very helpful and practical competition guidance to foreign entities doing business in Colombia.’

  • ‘Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla provides his advice in a very efficient and timely way for foreign entities doing business in Colombia.’

  • ‘I worked with this firm on a discrete piece of M&A competition advice. Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla was very helpful. He was proactive and able to deal with, and revert on, the questions we had in a methodical manner.’

Key clients

  • Rapyd Financial Network (2016)

Work highlights

  • Advised Rapyd Financial Network (2016) on compliance with local competition law regarding merger control procedure.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla