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The Best Lawyers in Colombia™ 2024

Best Lawyers is honored to announce the 14th edition of The Best Lawyers in Colombia™ for 2024, which honors Colombia's most esteemed lawyers and law firms.

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Best Lawyers

November 8, 2023 09:00 PM

The Best Lawyers in Colombia™ Awards

Best Lawyers, in partnership with Diario Financiero SUD, is proud to announce the 14^th edition of The Best Lawyers in Colombia™. The 2024 edition of these esteemed awards include 563 individual honorees in 45 distinct practice areas.

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Of the unique practice areas in which lawyers were awarded in Colombia, these are the top ten with the most honorees: Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Labor and Employment Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation Law, Banking and Finance Law, Administrative Law, Competition/Antitrust Law and Project Finance/Development Practice.

Individuals seeking legal guidance and services in Colombia turned to www.bestlawyers.com to find and source lawyers in several practice areas. The top ten most searched practice areas were: Litigation, Competition/Antitrust Law, Immigration Law, Tax Law, Labor and Employment Law, Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Intellectual Property Law, Banking and Finance Law, Administrative Law and Arbitration and Mediation Law.

A Brief History of Best Lawyers

For more than 40 years, Best Lawyers has utilized our Purely Pure Review™ methodology to award the top legal talent in several countries. We are proud to now be in 22 markets worldwide. As we usher in 2024, Best Lawyers is excited to publish this year’s awards for The Best Lawyers in Colombia.

“Lawyer of the Year” Awards

For 2024, Colombia also celebrates “Lawyer of the Year” awards. We are proud to highlight 27 “Lawyer of the Year” recipients at 21 law firms in Bogotá. The "Lawyer of the Year" honors are awarded annually to only one lawyer per practice area in each region with extremely high overall feedback from their peers, making it an exceptional distinction.

Araújo Ibarra & Asociados
Martín Gustavo Ibarra Pardo – Trade Law

Arrieta, Mantilla y Asociados
Carlos Gustavo Arrieta Padilla – Administrative Law

Baker McKenzie
María Carolina Pardo Cuéllar - Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice

Brigard Castro
Juan Pablo Cadena Sarmiento – Intellectual Property Law

Brigard Urrutia
Camilo Mutis Téllez - Immigration Law
Carlos Fradique-Méndez – Banking and Finance Law
Sergio Michelsen Jaramillo – Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Buitrago Asociados
Oscar Buitrago – Customs and Excise Law

Cavelier Abogados
Andrés Rincón – Life Sciences Practice
Eduardo Varela – Media Law

CMS Rodríguez-Azuero
Lorenzo Villegas-Carrasquilla – Communications Law

Cuatrecasas
Felipe Mariño Dueñas – Real Estate Law
Manuel Fernando Quinche – Project Finance and Development Practice

Dentons Cárdenas & Cárdenas
James Valdiri – Mining Law
Juanita Acosta – Information Technology Law

Esguerra Asesores Jurídicos
Alfonso Miranda Londoño – Competition / Antitrust Law
Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero – Litigation

Gamboa & Chalela Abogados
Nicolás Gamboa Morales – Arbitration and Mediation
Gómez-Pinzón
Andrés Fernández De Castro Muñoz - Technology Law

Herrera Laboralistas
José Roberto Herrera Vergara – Labor and Employment Law

Holland & Knight
José Vicente Zapata – Energy Law

Lewin & Wills
Alfredo Lewin – Tax Law

Márquez-Robledo Abogados
Santiago Márquez – Advertising Law

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Sandra Manrique Loaiza - Natural Resources Law

Salazar, Pardo & Jaramillo Abogados
Gabriel Pardo-Otero – Insurance Law

Suescún AbogadosJorge Suescún Melo – International Arbitration
Torrado Angarita & Pinzón Abogados
Jorge Torrado Angarita – Capital Markets Law

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Justin D. Cook

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Recognized since 2021

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Practice Areas

Tax Law

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Mehmet Munur

Taft

Recognized since 2020

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

Information Technology Law

IT Outsourcing Law

Privacy and Data Security Law

Mehmet Munur

Mehmet Munur is a Partner at Taft. He concentrates his practice in the areas of technology, information privacy and security, and financial services regulation. Mehmet works on contracts for internet-based services, including drafting and negotiating software licenses or Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") agreements, terms of use, privacy policies and other technology agreements. Mehmet regularly advises clients on technology outsourcing agreements, servicing, financing, and payments. He advises ...

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Michael T. Short

Littler

Recognized since 2014

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

Employment Law - Management

Workers' Compensation Law - Employers

Michael T. Short

Michael T. Short represents management clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters. He also actively represents employers in workers’ compensation cases before the Industrial Commission of Ohio, the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and all levels of Ohio courts. He has extensive experience representing public sector clients in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, and before the Ohio State Employment Relations Board. He regularly counsels employers on: Labor...

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Amy M. McKinlay

McKinlay Law Offices

Recognized since 2020

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

Family Law

Amy M. McKinlay

Amy M. McKinlay is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Family Law. Amy M., who practices law in Columbus, Ohio, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Amy M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

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Damion M. Clifford

Arnold & Clifford LLC

Recognized since 2024

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Damion M. Clifford

Damion M. Clifford is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation. Damion M., who practices law in Columbus, Ohio, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Damion M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Damion M. Clifford

Matthew J.P. Coffman

Coffman Legal LLC

Recognized since 2023

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

Employment Law - Individuals

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Specific Focus

Labor and Employment

Matthew J.P. Coffman

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Benjamin L. Luftman

Luftman, Heck & Associates LLP

Recognized since 2016

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

DUI / DWI Defense

Benjamin L. Luftman

An experienced and accomplished legal advocate, Benjamin L. Luftman is a founding partner at Luftman, Heck & Associates and has practiced law for thirteen years. His sole practice areas are in criminal law and traffic violations , having represented clients in cases ranging from serious felony charges , such as sexual battery and assault charges , to minor drug possession charges and other misdemeanors, with a particular concentration in the area of Ohio OVI law . In every case he takes o...

Benjamin L. Luftman

Steven E. Seasly

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Recognized since 2024

Cleveland, OH

Practice Areas

Employment Law - Management

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Steven E. Seasly

A Partner in Hahn Loeser’s Cleveland office since 2007 and current Chair of the Firm’s Labor and Employment Group, Steven E. Seasly has nearly 30 years of labor and employment law experience – exclusively representing and counseling employers across the country on the wide variety of employment and labor law issues. His breadth of experience includes complex employment law litigation, collective and/or class action wage and hour litigation, labor arbitrations, union avoidanc...

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David M. Abromowitz

Taft

Recognized since 2013

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

Health Care Law

David M. Abromowitz

David M. Abromowitz is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Health Care Law. David M., who practices law in Columbus, Ohio, has been recognized since 2013. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which David M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

David M. Abromowitz

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Littler

Recognized since 2013

Columbus, OH

Practice Areas

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Labor Law - Management

David A. Kadela

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