Juan Manuel has extensive experience advising investment banks, private equity funds and top-tier strategic investors on mergers, acquisitions and asset transfer transactions in Colombia and Latin America.
For more than five years, he led the financing, mergers and acquisitions practice at a prestigious international law firm based in Bogota. He also worked at Chadbourne & Parke in New York at the Latin America division.
Juan Manuel has held positions at the Boards of Directors of several financial institutions in Colombia and has been a pioneer in the creation of the International Business course at the law school of Universidad de los Andes, where he also taught civil law. Currently, he teaches Mergers & Acquisitions at that university.
His opinion pieces published in the Asuntos Legales of La República periodical have been the most popular and read ones.