José Gutiérrez Mestre

José is a partner of the firm. He is a lawyer admitted to practice in Colombia and has over 20 years of experience serving as a legal counsel of foreign and national companies, with great experience in
litigation and private law.

Currently, José is an admitted arbitrator before the Center of Dispute Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, where he also acts as Secretary for Arbitration Tribunals He has also directed processes of procurement, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions and overall everything related to the structure of business groups in Colombia. He has established appropriate corporate schemes across the country and instigated their operation and interaction with parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates abroad, as well as determining the internal agreement between the respective partners. Furthermore, José has been a lecturer in commercial law before various universities within the country.

José graduated from Universidad de los Andes Law School – Bogota, Colombia (1995) and has an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from University of Wollongong – NSW, Australia (2000).

• Negotiation, execution and liquidation of all kinds of corporate contracts.
• Creation, registration and subsequent development of corporations.
• Mergers, spin offs, acquisitions, transformations, dissolutions, liquidations, corporation
  share sales and corporate assets disposals.
• Boards of Partners and Shareholders Meetings.
• Administrative and legal procedures of Colombian corporations.
• “Due Diligence” design and implementation in all kinds of companies.

Cuberos Cortés Gutiérrez was created in 1986 by a team of qualified lawyers with the skills, knowledge and experience required to effectively advise and support your legal requirements.

We have a broad transactional practice and our main practice areas include: corporate & commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, labor and immigration law, international transactions, tax and foreign exchange law, zoning and real state law, infrastructure and public contracts, insolvency proceedings, arbitration and litigation.

Currently, we work with domestic and foreign entities rendering custom made legal services, starting from the design of the business and legal structure, to the subsequent implementation and set-up of the transaction, taking into account all matters involved.