Botero Salazar Tobón Abogados’ team impresses with its ‘strategic analysis, experience and knowledge of various legal disciplines’. As a key pillar of the dispute resolution boutique’s service offering, the litigation practice provides comprehensive coverage of commercial, civil and public law proceedings. Its diverse client list demonstrates that it punches above its weight in this area and it is routinely engaged by leading domestic and multinational corporations, including Glencore, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline Colombia. A go-to litigator, Bernardo Salazar co-heads the practice and leads the firm’s representation of Glencore’s Colombian subsidiaries in a $99m case related to the annulment of an amendment of a mining concession contract. The group is additionally co-led by Luís Felipe Botero, whose recent work highlights span cases in the energy, healthcare and financial services spheres; and Andrés Tobón, who maintains a broad dispute resolution practice. The team also draws on senior associate Julián Mateo Morales, who supports on trade law, litigation and arbitration; intermediate associate María Alejandra Serna, who formerly served as a lawyer on the Superior Council of the Judiciary; and junior associate Julian Mauricio Morales.
Testimonials
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‘The commercial management of the team in the midst of litigation is possibly superior to many firms.’
‘Luís Felipe Botero and Julian Mauricio Morales are very quick to respond and very commercially skilled in finding commercial solutions, in addition to handling litigation very well.’
Key clients
- Glencore/Prodeco
- Pacific Straus Energy
Work highlights
- Representing Glencore’s Colombian subsidiaries in a $99m case related to the annulment of an amendment of a mining concession contract.
- Representing Eurocontrol (Colombia branch) — as part of the consortium supervising the contract — in a lawsuit filed by a Colombian ministry claiming that the supervisor of a contract improperly approved payment orders.