Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas’ houses an integrated dispute resolution offering, which advises domestic and multinational clients on a mix of litigation and arbitration proceedings. The Bogotá-based group frequently teams up with colleagues from across its global network to advise on cross-border cases, while it also has experience in domestic arbitral disputes. Department co-head Andrés Fernández de Soto maintains a broad contentious focus that spans commercial, public procurement and administrative law matters. Fellow group head Paula Vejarano possesses an equally comprehensive dispute resolution practice. Associate Carlos Miranda supports the dispute resolution and the restructuring and insolvency teams.
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Work highlights
- Acted alongside its US offices to represent GCM Mining Corp in an investment arbitration against the Republic of Colombia before the ICSID, in a $360m case concerning non-compliance with the Canada-Colombia FTA.
- Represented an international engineering consortium in an ICC arbitration against a public entity in connection with a contract for constructing a waste management plant.
- Represented Integral in a domestic arbitration related to the execution of a share purchase agreement.
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Andrés Fernández de Soto, Paula Vejarano