It is in the contract execution stage where there are more contractual difficulties may arise due to different internal factors (total or partial breaches, conflict interpretation, loss of the thing due, events inherent to the parties, among others) or external (administrative decisions, force majeure, fortuitous event, unanticipated events, unforeseen events) that make the parties see the need to resolve or demand compliance with the contract.

Our firm has provided for more than 35 years permanent support, both in consulting and advising in conflict resolution (conciliation, arbitration, amicable composition and judicial processes) and in all stages of the contractual relationship, pursuing the best interest of our clients to bring to solve problems that may arise in these phases of private and public contracting.

The thorough understanding of these concepts as well as legal and technical aspects in energy matters, allows us to provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary advice, in all related matters ensuring our clients a safe and efficient operation.

Both national and international and the contractual and extra-contractual liability that derives from it, ensuring above all its legality and validity in compliance with Colombian law.

We have extensive experience in commercial contracts and obligations, from the simplest such as sales, leasing and guarantees, to the most specialized and complex, such as distribution, supply, concession, commercial agency, license, consignment contracts, franchise, trust, due diligence, and joint venture.

Additionally, we provide advice and representation in judicial, extrajudicial, administrative procedures and alternative dispute resolution methods that may arise in relation to these contracts.

We have a highly qualified team with experience in the representation, formulation, and resolution of any type of controversy of constitutional nature. The attorneys of our firm have served as judges, arbitrators, and represented clients in these matters, which enables them to provide high-quality legal counseling to their clients according to the specific needs of each case.

We have participated in more than 500 protection actions, in more than 10 group action law suits, and 80 class actions, with a very high success rate in favor of our clients.

As well as for the protection of those same rights, which can be summarized in property development activities, cadastral studies, title studies, land negotiation, process of deed and titling of vacant lots, judicial processes for the imposition of easements or expropriation.

The foregoing has allowed us to have a wide field of action in sectors such as infrastructure, mining, oil and gas projects, as well as in contracts that commonly involve the reorganization of real estate property.

we focus on:

• Advice and consultancy in general related to the matter.
• Audits throughout the real estate management process.
• Reorganization of real estate rights.
• Negotiation of real estate rights.
• Judicial and administrative processes.
• Document management.

We have ample experience to advise our clients and provide legal advice on environmental issues, as well as to represent them in litigation related to this matter, especially in group actions, having participated in more than 80 class actions of great national impact, with a very high success rate.

Through the experience that we have acquired in environmental matters for more than thirty years and under the premise of sustainable development, we are prepared to:

• Provide legal advice and support on environmental issues.
  
  
• Represent clients before the Ministry of the Environment, the National Environmental Licensing Authority, and other national, regional, and local authorities.
  
  
• Represent our clients in litigation before the ordinary jurisdiction and the contentious administrative jurisdiction on environmental issues and, particularly, in class actions.

For this reason, we are one of the firms that has the most experience in arbitration proceedings in our country, in matters of commercial, corporate, energy, infrastructure, oil, mines and gas, among others.

We have distinguished ourselves as arbitrators as well as in client representation before the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC for its Spanish acronym) and the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris (ICC).

We are part of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá- (CCB) and of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC).

For 22 years we have participated as lecturers in the National and International Arbitration Diploma and in the training courses for secretaries organized by the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.

We have extensive experience in international arbitration, having participated in arbitrations under the rules of CCI de Paris, AAA, CIAC, among others.

We have participated in important seminars at the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Inter-American Center for Commercial Arbitration (CIAC) and the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce (CCB) for the training of international arbitrators. Leading lawyers in the program of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Honduras for the training of arbitrators and in the international arbitration courses organized by the Paris ICC.

We have been speakers at the International Arbitration Congresses.

That is why our firm, based on extensive experience and trajectory, has advised and judicially represented our clients in judicial and extrajudicial claims before the different jurisdictions in controversies of commercial law, contract law, oil, mines, gas, environmental law, among others, and in all other matters that involve the use of other conflict resolution mechanisms such as arbitration, amicable composition, dispute boards, conciliation, etc.

The members of our firm have participated in more than 1,000 litigations before the ordinary and contentious administrative jurisdiction, in more than 80 class actions and in more than 500 judicial processes for the imposition of oil, mining and electric easements. All the above, with a success rate of over 95% in favor of our clients.

We are prepared to attend judicial processes in most of Colombian jurisdictions, since we have a highly qualified judicial support network, due to continuous work for over 35 years.