Director
Intellectual Property Law
Associate-to-watch Camilo Suárez continues to offer a solid practice advising clients on contentious IP mandates in Colombia. “Camilo Suárez is a highly qualified professional, committed, serious and accurate in his advice. As a lawyer, he is precise and honest”. Intellectual Property, Chambers and Partners, Latin America.
Director of the Intellectual Property and Life Sciences team. His professional practice focuses on litigation practice and evidentiary collection in matters related to Intellectual Property, as well as in matters of Unfair Competition and Consumer Law. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in these fields, advising national and foreign clients and, likewise, acting as their attorney before different national and international judicial, arbitration and administrative authorities. Since two (2) years ago he assumed the autonomous construction of the Anti-Piracy and Counterfeiting practice, representing national and foreign clients in these fields. He served as Foreign Lawyer in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez between 2019 and 2020 in the coordination group of Industrial Property and Unfair Competition . Author of several articles in indexed and specialized publications; he has been recognized and highlighted in international guides such as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, Leaders League and Best Lawyers.
Cristina es abogada de la Universidad de Los Andes (1998). Cuenta con un LLM de Columbia University (2002), un Curso en Corporate Compliance de la Universidad de Los Andes (2020) y un Diplomado en Gestión de Riesgos de la Universidad de La Sabana (2020). Después de una larga práctica en fusiones y adquisiciones y derecho financiero, Cristina fue nombrada Secretaria General y Controller de PPU en enero de 2019, apoyando a PPU en un amplio rango de asuntos regulatorios y contractuales y a cargo del proceso de conflictos de interés. Es la Oficial de Cumplimiento de PPU en Colombia y un miembro de su Comité de Deontología y Cumplimiento. Está a cargo del proceso global de manejo de conflictos de PPU, los estándares profesionales y éticos, reclamaciones, acuerdos de seguros y el manejo de riesgos.