Brigard Urrutia

Founded in 1934 and with over 90 years of experience, Brigard Urrutia is recognized as a leading law firm in Colombia and one of the most prestigious in Latin America. Brigard Urrutia provides legal advice and assistance across 19 practice areas covering all aspects of business law, including transactional and non-transactional advice, litigation and dispute resolution, and serves clients across a wide range of industries, including Life Sciences and Transportation and Logistics. In addition, Brigard Urrutia has experience as a service provider for important national and international clients, including leading domestic and foreign financial institutions, multinational corporations, private equity/venture capital funds, state-owned enterprises, governments and multilateral agencies. The firm frequently advises on complex cross-border matters, and its attorneys have been involved in many of Colombia's groundbreaking landmark transactions. 

In addition, through Brigard Castro, its affiliated boutique firm specialized in Intellectual Property, the firm offers clients a select interdisciplinary team of professionals with deep expertise across every branch of intellectual property law, allowing for efficient and specialized handling of each client's needs. Brigard Castro's practice areas include Intangible Assets in the Digital Environment, Strategic Advisory, Art Law, Copyright, Entertainment, Litigation, Trademarks, Image Rights and Domain Names, Patents, and Health Regulatory.

The firm has a multidisciplinary team of more than 100 attorneys specialized in various practice areas of business law, who follow the most rigorous ethical principles and the highest standards of professional excellence. All its partners and associates are fluent in at least one language other than Spanish, and many are admitted to practice in foreign jurisdictions.

Brigard Urrutia also has a management team that is constantly innovating through solutions, best practices, and trends to attain optimal customer experience levels. As part of its transparency policies and institutional values, it has a corporate governance structure that allows the firm to implement the best international practices. These practices help guarantee compliance of internal and external rules and achieve the objectives set forth in its strategic plan.

The firm provides its clients with privileged access to top tier law firms in most countries through global networks. These networks allow Brigard Urrutia to be at the forefront of best practices and global trends in the field of legal service provision, taking advantage of the experience of colleagues in other jurisdictions. The firm is member of Lex Mundi, Pacific Rim Advisory Council, World Services Group, The Interlex Group, Ius Laboris - Global Human resources lawyers and Club de Abogados, among others.

Practice Areas 

• Customs and International Trade
• Environment and Sustainable Business
• Banking and Financial Services 
• Foreign Exchange 
• Competition and Antitrust 
• Compliance
• Corporate Business Law
• Corporate M&A
• Wealth Management 
• Tax
• Infrastructure and Public Utilities 
• Immigration
• Real Estate
• Labor and Employment
• Litigation, Arbitration and Insolvency
• Capital Markets
• Mining, Oil and Gas
• Insurance and Reinsurance 
• Telecommunications, Media and Technology
• Intellectual Property 

Main Partners or Professionals

Carlos Fradique-Méndez, Sergio Michelsen Jaramillo, Álvaro Iván Cala, Carlos Umaña Trujillo, Carlos Urrutia Valenzuela, Claudia Navarro Acevedo,  Andrés Hernández de León,  Catalina Jaramillo Hernández, César Felipe Rodríguez, José Francisco Mafla, Luis Gabriel Morcillo, Alejandro García de Brigard, Catalina Santos Angarita, Jaime Robledo Vásquez, Francisco Uribe, Tomás Holguín, Fernando Castillo, Paula Camacho Henao, Johann Schomberger, Daniel Duque, Lucas Fajardo, María Victoria Munévar, Isabel Cristina Delgado, Sebastián Lora Burman, Mario Forero, Ricardo Forero Muñoz, Nicolás Cardona Baquero, Ángela García Páez, Juan Pablo Cadena, Martín Eduardo Torres.

Languages that the firm supports

German Chinese Spanish French English Italian Portuguese