Brigard Urrutia

Legal Services | Colombia
tel: +57 60 1 346 20 11 | fax: +57 60 1 310 06 09
Calle 70 Bis # 4 - 41, Bogota D.C. | Calle 6 norte # 1 - 42, Cali / Carrera 53 # 80 - 198, Barranquilla | Bogota | 110231 | Colombia

Main Contacts

Jaime Robledo Vasquez

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Partner

Maria Catalina Jaramillo

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Partner

Carlos Umana

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Partner

Jose Francisco Mafla

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Partner

Offices

Bogota, Colombia

Overview

Founded in 1934 and with over 80 years of experience, Brigard Urrutia is recognised as a leading law firm in Colombia and one of the most prestigious in Latin America.

The firm is committed to its clients and seeks to provide them with comprehensive and expert advice. It has a proven track record as a supplier of first-rate legal services to a global clientele formed by industrial, commercial and service companies, banks and other financial institutions, private equity funds, insurance companies, as well as national and foreign government agencies and companies.

It has a multidisciplinary team of over 150 specialised attorneys in various practice areas of business law, who follow the most rigorous ethical principles and the highest standards of professional excellence. All of its partners and associates are fluent in at least one language other than Spanish, and many of them are admitted to practice in foreign jurisdictions (most notably in the state of New York).

The firm's lawyers are graduates from Colombia's top universities and many have completed postgraduate programs in law schools located in the US and Europe. Brigard Urrutia also has a management team that is constantly innovating through solutions, best practices and trends to attain optimal customer experience levels.

Year this Office was Founded: 1934
Lawyers Worldwide: 181

Notable

Areas of Practice

  • Antitrust and Competition Law
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Cannabis Law
  • Capital Markets, Securities and Private Equity
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Crime, Compliance and Investigations
  • Customs and International Trade
  • Environment and Sustainable Business
  • Family Law
  • Forex,Derivatives and Structured Finance
  • Immigration
  • Infrastructure and Public Utilities
  • Insurance and Reinsurance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Labour and Employment
  • Litigation, Arbitration and Insolvency
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Natural Resources
  • Public Law
  • Real Estate, Urban Regulation, Hotel and Agribusiness
  • Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
  • Sports Law
  • Tax
  • Telecommunications, Media and Technology
  • Trust and Estates

Representative Clients

  • The Firm attends both local and international clients in antitrust filings and competition investigations in Colombia. Among our most relevant and recent clients we include:
  • - Exxon Mobil
  • - Primax Colombia S.A.
  • - Maersk
  • - Intertug
  • - Ecopetrol

Professionals

Articles

Colombia quickly became a hot spot for highly sophisticated standard essential patent litigation

Brigard Urrutia, July 2025

By Laura Ángel-Jaramillo, Director of Intellectual Property Litigation at Brigard Castro Email: [email protected] In the world of technology and cellular communications, intellectual property disputes often revolve around Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)—patents that are indispensable to the implementation of a specific technical standard. A technical standard is a set of established norms or requirements for a particular technology, often developed by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), or the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)...

Knowledge of Non-Compliance: Ordinary Insurance Prescription

Brigard Urrutia, May 2023

Through the sentence 67240 OF MARCH 1, 2023, the Third Section of the Council of State (hereinafter, the " CE ") resolved an appeal filed by a public entity against the first instance ruling handed down by the Administrative Court of Arauca, which acquitted an insurer of payment of the indemnity derived from compliance insurance, considering that the actions derived from the insurance contract against the insured entity had prescribed. In its considerations, the EC supported the reasons set forth by the court of first instance and resolved to confirm the contested decision. This decision was accompanied by the following considerations: 1 ...

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Press releases

Brigard Urrutia Advises Millicom (Tigo) on a USD 1,020 Million Operation That Redefines the Telecommunications Market in Colombia

Brigard Urrutia, May 2026

We are proud to have advised Millicom International Cellular S.A. in a multi-stage strategic transaction, for an aggregate value of approximately USD 1,020 million, through which it consolidated its position in the telecommunications market in Colombia.The operation was structured in three interrelated sections, in which we participated integrally: - Acquisition of 100% of EPM's stake in Tigo Colombia, through a process of disposal of state stock ownership under Law 226.-  Acquisition of 67.5% of Movistar Colombia from Telefónica, through a takeover bid (OPA).-  Acquisition of the remaining 32...

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