2023 Worldwide Conference: CEO Summary
Excellence Awards winners
Our inaugural Excellence Awards recognised those member firms that had excelled and gone the extra mile in initiatives aligned with our wider business goals and their own. Congratulations to all this year’s winners (see below).
International Business Development
Overall Winner: ICS Bagimsiz Denetim (Turkey)
Outstanding Achievement (Accounting Firm): Prasad & Company (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement (Law Firm): Peña Mancero Abogados (Colombia)
AGA Brand Ambassador
Global Winner: Sherrards (UK)
Outstanding Achievement (Accounting Firm): SUMM (Denmark)
Outstanding Achievement (Law Firm): Wołoszański & Partners Law Firm (Poland)
Innovator
Global Winner: Wołoszański & Partners Law Firm (Poland)
Outstanding Achievement: Rogers, Anderson, Malody & Scott (USA)
Global Citizenship
Global Winner: Linkenheimer (USA)
Outstanding Achievement: ICS Bagimsiz Denetim (Turkey)
Peña Mancero Abogados (PMA) announces the opening of new office in Barranquilla
Legal services provider Peña Mancero Abogados announced today the opening of its new office in Barranquilla.
Known for being the “Golden Gate of Colombia”, Barranquilla has a port infrastructure comprising more than 20 port concessions and a dozen terminals in one, which allows transport of all types of cargo to the rest of the country and the world.
The practice in Barranquilla will be led by Jaime Tello, who has over 25 years of experience and will strengthen the firm’s foreign trade practice area. Jaime is also an arbitrator with the Chambers of Commerce of Barranquilla and Santa Marta.
“Barranquilla is one of the most important hubs in Colombia and probably the most prominent and developed city of all the Caribbean region. Our office in this city provides us with a unique opportunity to serve both Colombian clients wishing to expand internationally and foreign clients who wish to do business in Colombia,” said Daniel Peña, founding partner of the firm.
The opening of a new office in Barranquilla continues the firm’s expansion trend since its joining Alliott Global Alliance, the international network of accounting and law firms with presence in 95 countries.
ALLIOTT GLOBAL ALLIANCE has been ranked in the highest band (band 1) of Law Firm Networks
We are delighted to announce our global alliance (AGA) has been ranked in the highest band (band 1) of Law Firm Networks by Chambers and Partners for 2023. This is powerful validation of AGA and our ability to coordinate our clients’ representation in nearly 100 countries worldwide.
Annual conference International Distribution Institute (IDI) in Madrid
Our senior associate María Fernanda González participated in the International Distribution Institute (IDI) annual conference held in Madrid. Honored to be the Colombian member for distribution and agency agreements.
Partner Daniel Peña participates in the conference: smart contracts of the Commission for Commercial Practices of the CCI
Daniel Peña, socio de Peña Mancero Abogados participó como conferencista en evento de la Comisión de Prácticas Mercantiles de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional que tuvo lugar en el auditorio de la CCB de la sede de Chapinero, donde expuso todo lo relacionado con Smart Contracts: conceptos, la formas, el consentimiento, la prueba y conflictos de leyes en los contratos inteligentes.
La conferencia abordó la evolución de la forma y el consentimiento como elementos estructurales del negocio jurídico, teniendo como punto de partida los contratos WEB (‘cliqueo’ y navegación) hasta los contratos inteligentes (Smart Contracts) en sistema de información automatizados con garantía de integridad y autenticidad de información.
Presentation of the book International Contracting, with the participation of partner Daniel Peña
Peña Mancero Abogados was accompanying the partner Daniel Peña in the presentation of the book International Recruitment (editors Jorge Oviedo Albán and Luis Alfonso Gómez with the direction of Adriana Zapata Giraldo). The launching of the book took place in the event about Digital Businesses of the International Chamber of Commerce and the Externado University of Colombia.
Our partner contributed to the chapter on contracting by electronic means (Convention of Electronic Communications in the International Contracting) of UNCITRAL published by Daniel Peña in the collective work on treaties and normative instruments of the International Contracting of the Externado University of Colombia with the edition of the Professors Adriana Zapata and Jorge Oviedo.
The book, among other topics, analyze the rules that determine the law applicable to international contracts. Addressing the rules of Private International Law enshrined in the Colombian Civil and Commercial Codes in comparison with the conflict rules contained in international instruments.
XXXIV Seminar on Criminal Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia on “Criminal Law and Business”
Our partner Daniel Peña participated in XXXIV Seminar on Criminal Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia on “Criminal Law and Business”, with a presentation on “Security of information systems as a paradigm of cybercrime.” The Externado conference had the presence of more than 200 people. It is traditionally the most important academic event of the year on criminal law in Colombia. His conference will be published in a book titled “Enterprise Criminal Law”.
Ministry of Environment creates environmental mining seal
International Joint Ventures (2013)
