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Alejandro Linares Cantillo

Partner

by | Jul 18, 2024

Ext. 901
alinares@gomezpinzon.com
Mergers & Acquisitions. Litigation & Conflict Resolution.
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Since he began his professional practice in 1984, Alejandro has established himself as an expert in the legal industry in both the private and public sectors.

Currently, he is a partner at the firm, and he is part of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Groups, focusing his practice on strategic advisory for international and local transactions.

Alejandro was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of Colombia and has held significant leadership positions in the executive branch, including Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Legal Vice President of Ecopetrol. Additionally, he has served as a national and international arbitrator.

In academia, he has been an adjunct professor of law at Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla), among others.

 

    PhD, Universidad Externado de Colombia Law School | summa cum laude, 2019.

 

    Specialist in Finance, Universidad de los Andes, 1989.

 

    LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1985.

 

    LL.B., Universidad de los Andes | cum laude, 1984.

 

Languages:

    English.
    Spanish.

 

    Partner, Gómez -Pinzón Abogados, since 2024.

 

    Justice, Colombian Constitutional Court, 2015 – 2023.

 

    Vice President and General Counsel, Ecopetrol, 2014 – 2015.

 

    Partner, Gomez Pinzon Abogados, 1994 – 2014.

 

    Lecturer, Universidad del Norte, 2008 – 2010.

 

    Lecturer, Universidad del Rosario, 2000 – 2005.

 

    Director, National Rehabilitation Plan, 1992 – 1994.

 

    Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia, 1992.

 

    Plenipotentiary Minister, Colombian Embassy in France, 1991.

 

    Director, International Investments Division, National Planning Department of Colombia, 1989 – 1991.

 

    Legal Counsel, IBM Colombia, 1986 – 1989.

 

    Legal Director, Public Credit & Treasury Directorate, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia, 1986.

 

    Foreign Associate, Sidley Austin LLP, 1985 – 1986.

 

    Summer Associate, Holland & Knight, 1985.

Privatization of Electrocosta and Electrocaribe SABMiller – Bavaria Merger Acquisition of Casa Editorial El Tiempo by Planeta Acquisition of Cine Colombia by Valorem Acquisition of Banco Colpatria by GE Acquisition of Computec by Experian Finance Banco Colpatria’s buyback by Mercantil Colpatria and subsequent sale to Scotiabank Acquisition of a mining operation in Nicaragua by Mineros Avianca – Grupo TACA Merger Investment in FDN (National Development Fund) by International Finance Corporation and other parties

 

 

    “The Intervention of Constitutional Courts in International Investment Law: The Case of Colombia,” 54 Cornell Int’l L.J. 47 (2021).

 

    Constitutionalism: Old Dilemmas, New Insights (Co-Editor), Oxford University Press (2021).

 

    Member of IBA (International Bar Association).

 

    Member, Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia.

 

    Agribusiness.

 

    Energy and natural resources

 

    Banking, capital markets and financial services.

 

    Public sector.

 

    Infrastructure.