Andres Florez Villegas Securities Lawyer of the Year Colombia

Firm Profile

Esguerra, Barrera, Arriaga, S.A. is a highly qualified firm due to the experience of its partners and their ability to deal with complex issues involving numerous Areas of Practice. The firm works within the most strict ethics parameters and the highest professional standards. It possesses the experience, knowledge, infrastructure and technology needed to provide reliable and qualified legal counsel to its clients. Thanks to the alliances it has developed with law firms in other parts of the world, the firm is prepared to offer its services on international affairs. The firm is both multidisciplinary and specialized, with

proven ability to handle complex matters in a great number of areas, including constitutional, administrative, civil, labor, commercial, financial and antitrust law, and a long trajectory in national and international arbitration.

Partners: Juan Carlos Esguerra

Portocarrero, Carlos Darío Barrera Tapias, Héctor Arriaga Diaz, Alfonso Miranda Londoño, Felipe Piquero Villegas, Juan Pablo González Mejía, Andrés Jaramillo Hoyos, Andrés Flórez Villegas.

Number of Partners: 8, Other Lawyers: 22

Main Areas of Practice • Antitrust

• Banking/Financial and Security Law

• Corporative Law/Merges and Acquisitions

About Andres Florez Villegas

Andrés Flórez received his law degree from Universidad Javeriana, specialized in Insurance Law at the same University, and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from Cornell University (USA). He was admitted to practice in the State of New York in 2002 and is a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA).

He was Legal Director of the Bogota Stock Exchange (1999 to 2000), Managing Director of Capital Markets and Issuers of the Colombian Stock Exchange (2001 to 2002), Alternate Superintendent for Issuers at the Superintendence of Securities (2002 to 2004), General Director of Financial Regulation at the Colombian Ministry of Finance (2004 to 2005) and CEO of the Financial Institutions Guarantee Fund –

Fogafin (FDCI equivalent) from 2005 to 2007.

Mr. Flórez was the Colombian negotiator of the Chapter on Financial Services of the U.S.- Andean Free Trade Agreement. In addition, he headed the group that drafted the new Colombian Securities Law and submitted the bill to Congress for its approval. He was also part of the group that led to the creation of the new

Financial (Superintendencia Financiera).

Andrés Flórez is a professor of Contracts at the Universidad Javeriana School of Law and of Securities and Financial Regulation at the Universidad de los Andes School of Law.

• Health Care System • Insurance Law • Infrastructure • Intellectual Property • Labor and Social Security • Litigation and Arbitration • Public Affairs

• Telecommunications, Media and Technology

Contact Superintendence

Andrés Flórez Villegas Esguerra Barrera Arriaga S.A. Calle 72 No 6-30, Piso 12. Bogotá Colombia

Tel: +571 312 2900 Fax: +571 3104715 Email: aflorez@esguerrabarrera.com Website: www.esguerrabarrera.com

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