BRIGARD & URRUTIA ABOGADOS

Contact: Carlos Urrutia, Partner

Carrera 7 # 71 – 21, Torre B, Piso 4
Bogotá

Phone: 57-1-3462011
Fax: 57-1-2125840 /  57-1-3100586
Email: currutia@N0SPAM.bu.com.co
Web: http://www.bu.com.co

Brigard & Urrutia was founded in 1934 and is one of the oldest firms in Colombia providing legal advice to clients in all areas of the law relevant to business ventures. Since its founding, Brigard & Urrutia has been an internationally oriented practice. All of the partners and associates are fluent in at least one language other than Spanish and most members of the firm hold, in addition to their local law degree, a post-graduate diploma from a leading university in the United States or in Europe.

The firm's clients include industrial and commercial companies from all business sectors, banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, professional firms and foreign governments. Brigard & Urrutia's clients originate from the United States, Central and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan and other Asia Pacific countries.

With over 35 attorneys, the firm's professionals combine the day-to-day practice of law with academic and university activities. Historically, members of the firm have held important positions in public office as well as in Colombia's diplomatic service, in posts such us ambassadors to the Court of St. James, the United States, Germany, Argentina and the United Nations.

In the context of the new economy and driven by M & A activity, as well as by the dynamic growth of investments in areas such as telecommunications and power generation and distribution over the past six years, Brigard & Urrutia has grown significantly with the view of meeting the ever increasing needs of clients to rely on professional, responsive and cost effective legal advice. As a result, the firm is in the forefront of the legal profession in Colombia.

Brigard & Urrutia covers the following areas of practice:

Administrative, Aviation, Antitrust, Banking and Financial Institutions, Corporations and Business Associations, Labor, Employment Benefits and Compensation, Energy and Natural Resources (Oil, Gas and Mining), Environmental, Corporate Finance and Securities, Financial Transactions, Project Finance, Foreign Investments and Exchange Control Regulations, International Business Transactions, Litigation (Administrative, Civil and Labor) and Arbitration, Mergers and Acquisitions, Privatization, Taxation, Telecommunications and Regulated Industries, Internet and E- Business Transactions, Transfer of Technology, Franchising and Licensing, Intellectual Property, Shipping and Maritime Law.