ARBITRATION & LITIGATION LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
WINNER Tobar & Romero Abogados
FIRM PROFILE Tobar & Romero Abogados is a boutique law firm based in Bogotá. Originally conceived as a dispute resolution law firm, it quickly gained prominence in the domestic market for its work in civil and commercial matters, including high-profile arbitrations and appeal proceedings (recursos de casación) before the Civil Chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court. The firm has acted as counsel of notable domestic and international
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE
companies including Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, COMCEL (part of Carlos Slim’s America Móvil Group), Banco Santander and Banco BBVA.
In August 2012, the firm expanded its service portfolio to the areas of corporate, financial, employment, tax, white-collar crime and insurance law.
ABOUT JAIME HUMBERTO TOBAR ORDOÑEZ Mr. Tobar holds a JD from Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia) and post-graduate degrees in Financial and Procedural Law from Universidad del Rosario; Constitutional Law from the Center of Constitutional Studies of Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and Comparative Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Before founding Tobar & Romero Abogados, Mr. Tobar worked as Chief Legal Counsel of Delta Bolívar Compañía de Financiamiento Comercial, and was a local partner of the Bogotá office of Baker & McKenzie, where he led the dispute resolution department.
He is a member of the rosters of arbitrators of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, the Arbitration Center of the Colombo-Italian
• Civil and Commercial Law • Antritrust Law & Consumer Protection
Chamber, the Corporate Arbitration Center of the Colombian Superintendence of Corporations (Superintendencia de Sociedades) and the Arbitration Center of the Colombian Securities Market Self-Regulator (Autoregulador del Mercado de Valores). He is also a member of the roster of non-national arbitrators of the Free-Trade Agreement between the United States of America, Dominican Republic and Central America (DR-CAFTA).
Mr. Tobar has been a lecturer of civil procedure and commercial law and is currently a member of the Colombian Institute of Procedural Law, the Center of Studies of Competition Law -CEDEC-, the Commercial Lawyers Association and of the Colombian Committee of Arbitration.
ABOUT RAFAEL ROMERO SIERRA Mr. Romero is a former Justice of the Civil Chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court. He is a law graduate of the Universida Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia). Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Mr. Romero served as Trial Judge of Bogotá, Judge of the Bogotá Circuit and Judge of the Civil Chamber of the Bogotá Tribunal of Appeals. After stepping down from the Court and prior to founding Tobar & Romero Abogados, Mr. Romero worked as Of Counsel of the dispute resolution department of the Bogotá office of Baker & McKenzie.
26 Latin Corporate Legal Awards 2013
• Corporate Law / M&A • Financial Law • Labor Law and Social Security • Dispute Resolution • White Collar Crime • Insurance Law • Tax Law
NOTABLE LEGAL WORK Tobar & Romero Abogados has successfully
represented its clients in multiple court and arbitration proceedings, with several cases exceeding US$ 50.000.000. Recent mandates include COMCEL (part of Carlos Slim’s
America Móvil Group), BBVA, Grupo Éxito and Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, amongst others. The partners’ relentless attention to detail, vast experience and enviable track record allow Tobar & Romero Abogados to provide first-class and highly specialized legal services.
Mr. Romero has been a lecturer of civil procedure and is currently member of the roster of arbitrators of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce. He is also member of the rosters of substitute judges of the Civil Chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court and the Colombian Constitutional Court. He has also been pointed as an arbitrator in cases such as Transportes Transvizar v. Bavaria; Emilnar v. Bavaria; Club el Nogal v. Chubb & Mapfre; Transportes; Ministerio de Transporte v. La Previsora; and Electrificadora de Córdoba v. Electrificadora de la Costa Atlántica
CONTACT
Tobar & Romero Abogados Carrera 7 No. 32 – 33 Piso 22 Bogotá D.C. - Colombia
Phone: (57) (1) 232 30 11 Fax: (57) (1) 340 14 35
Email:
buzongeneral@trtabogados.com Website:
www.trtabogados.com
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