Partners

Claudia Isabel Medina Siervo

Attorney with over 20 years’ experience in the areas of Public, Corporate and Contract Law and Legal Risk Management; more specifically, in public control, compliance and representing public and private clients in litigation proceedings and conflict resolution. Her area of practice centers on providing advisory and consulting services in Public Law, International Business, Public Control, Public Procurement, and Administrative Law to private and public sector clients.

Áreas de práctica:

  • Public Law

  • Public Procurement

  • Fiscal Control and Corporate Law.

  • Law PhD – Universidad de los Andes, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA 08/2022 – to date
  • Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. Master’s Degree in International Business Law. 2012
  • Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. International Business Law Specialization. 2010.
  • Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Non-degree Course in Public Procurement. 2003 
  • Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Non-degree Course in Procurement. 1999
  • University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Mediation in the Law and Contemporary Issues in the Social Policy courses. 2001.
  • Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Lawyer. 1999.
  • MEDINA-ESTUDIO LEGAL S.A.S. Partner. To date.
  • COLJUEGOS E.I.C.E. Head of Legal Affairs
  • CARVAJAL PROPIEDADES E INVERSIONES S.A.S. Director of Corporate Legal Affairs. Delegate Comptroller for Public Management and Financial Institutions.
    July 2012. Office of the Comptroller General of the Nation.
  • Delegate Inter-sectoral Comptroller. Office of the Comptroller General of the Nation.
  • Office of the Comptroller General of the Nation. Delegate Comptroller for the Mines & Energy sector.
  • Office of the Comptroller General of the Nation.
    Attorney-Advisor- Office of Legal Affairs. Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia.
  • Senior Consultant– Legal Services – Deloitte Asesores Legales y Tributarios S.A.
  • Trade Registry Attorney. Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.

UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO

  • Administrative Law Graduate Program

  • Public Management and Fiscal Control Graduate Program Law School

  • Subjects: (i) Public Control and the Different Types of Liability of State Entities, (ii) Contract Management, (iii) Introduction to Public Management and Fiscal Control

June 2015 – To date

UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES

  • Subject:  Constitution and Democracy (PhD TA)

To date

UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE COLOMBIA                              

  • Law School

  • Subjects: General Constitutional Law, Special Administrative Law, State Liability

September 2016 – To date

  • Former member of the Board of Directors of AMERICAS BPS and other steering organs of the CARVAJAL Group.
  • Former Technical Secretary of the Board of Directors of COLJUEGOS E.I.C.E.
  • Mediator accredited as operator in judicial out-of-court conciliation proceedings.
  • Former member of the Board of Directors and the Mediation Committee of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Nation.
  • Former member of the Board of Directors of Compañía Agrícola de Seguros S.A. Seguros Generales, an entity that merged with Compañía Suramericana de Seguros.
  • Former member of the Board of Directors of Compañía Agrícola Seguros de Vida S.A., an entity that merged with Compañía Suramericana de Seguros de Vida S.A. and Compañía Suramericana Administradora de Riesgos Profesionales and Seguros de Vida – SURATEP.

Gabriel Medina Siervo

Attorney with over 25 years’ experience, mainly dedicated to trust litigation and other commercial disputes, as well as constitutional actions, and control measures in the area of administrative litigation and arbitration. Gabriel has served as arbitrator in the different arbitration centers nationwide and has participated in over 40 arbitration disputes, both as an arbitrator and as an attorney for one of the parties. He is also experienced in the area of Corporate Law and Estate Planning.

Áreas de práctica:

  • Litigation
  • Estate planning
  • Financial law
  • Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá D.C, Colombia.
    Lawyer.
  • Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá D.C, Colombia.

    Specialization in Financial and Securities Law.

  • The Southwestern Institute for International Law, Dallas, Texas (USA)
    International Business Law Program.
  • Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá D.C, Colombia.

    Specialization in Civil Procedure Law.

  • MEDINA ESTUDIO LEGAL S.A.S.
    Founding Partner.
    To date.
  • SODIMAC COLOMBIA S.A.- ORGANIZACION CORONA
    Director of Legal Affairs
    October 2006 – March 2010.
  • HELM BANK S.A.- VICEPRESIDENCIA JURIDICA
    Director of Legal Affairs. / Helm Fiduciaria S.A./Helm Leasing/ Helm Investment Advisor
    March 2003 to September 2006.
  • CITIBANK-COLOMBIA S.A.- VICEPRESIDENCIA JURÍDICA
    Director of Legal Affairs / Cititrust S.A./Leasing Citibank/ Citivalores
    May 2002 to February 2003.

  • FIDUAGRARIA S.A.
    Director of Legal Affairs.
    September 2000 to May 2002.

  • FIDUCIARIA DE OCCIDENTE S.A.
    Attorney.
    December 1.998 to December 1.999

UNIVERSIDAD SERGIO ARBOLEDA

  • Commercial and Financial Law Graduate Program Law School
    Subject: Banking & Financial Contracts and Trust Businesses.

July 2007 – 2015

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA CALI

  • Commercial Law Graduate Program
    Subject: – Banking & Financial Contracts

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA

  • International Business Management Program
    Subject: Business Law

July 2001- June 2.004

  • Member of the Board of Director of a financing company.
  • Current member of the Colombian Commercial Law Attorneys Association.
  • Member of the Colombian-Chilean Chamber of Commerce
  • Former member of the Legal Committee of FEDELEASING and ASOFIDUCIARIAS
  • Member of the Colombian Institute of Procedural Law – ICDP.