Commercial Law
Our practice in this area includes:
- Legal structuring of business and commercial projects
- Execution of the different commercial operations
- Preparation of due diligence reports
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Incorporation and liquidation of companies, expansion and reduction of capital, reorganization and business integration in mergers, transformations, spin-offs, dissolutions and universal insolvency proceedings.
- Opening of branches of national and foreign companies, legal representation of commercial companies.
- Advice on foreign investment, decision making or definition of strategies.
Cannabis Law:
- Advice on sector trends and developments.
- Preparation of seed and plant growing, derivative manufacturing and export license applications.
- Representation of clients before national authorities (Ministry of Interior and Justice, Ministry of Health and Social Protection, CNE, etc.)
The illusion of exit: Colombia, ICSID, and the politics of investment reform
By Daniel Peña Valenzuela, partner Peña Mancero Abogados Since the 1990s, Colombia relied on bilateral investment treaties (BITs), ceding partial jurisdictional sovereignty to international arbitration tribunals, especially ICSID. Withdrawal from ICSID or BITs does...
International Arbitral Awards and Their Enforcement: Lessons from Colombia’s Article 28 of Law 2540 (2025) in Comparative Perspective
By Daniel Peña Valenzuela, Partner Peña Mancero Abogado Introduction The enforcement of arbitral awards remains one of the most critical dimensions of arbitration, as it determines whether the adjudicatory process achieves practical effectiveness. While the New York...