Our Team in Colombia

Extensive knowledge in customer service and advice in the commercial area with more than 5 years of experience, with studies in industrial fields. Currently supports the industrial property department specifically in trademark surveillance at national and international level. She is in charge of reviewing gazettes and sending proposals in reference to the filing of oppositions.

Lawyer graduated from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. He has worked on investigative issues regarding the abuse of shareholders' voting rights. Actually she works as a junior lawyer in company, corporate, contractual and commercial matters. It also provides advice and support in the constitution, transformation and liquidation of companies, presentation of legal actions of a civil, commercial, corporate nature and review of civil and commercial contracts. With skills in mediation, conciliation and conflict resolution of a private nature.

He is passionate about customer service and, thanks to nine years of continuous work at Muñoz Abogados, Cruz has garnered valuable knowledge about clients and their needs. After spending a long time as a trademark surveillance coordinator, Cruz currently uses his knowledge and experience supporting the firm in customer relations. Alvin is a Business Management technician; a Business Management technologist from the Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano where studies his tenth semester of Business Management. His formation process has been filled with complementary studies regarding the general course method of Intellectual Property dictated by the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO in April 2010.

She is a lawyer from Universidad de La Sabana, with experience in both the private and public sector. She works as an in-house lawyer for different companies in the private sector, especially for the pharmaceutical sector, supporting them in the areas of corporate, administrative, and mainly in industrial law where she has over three years of experience in Colombia and abroad.

At our firm she works as a lawyer in the International Distinctive Signs department.

Spanish, English and Italian.

Attorney and economist graduated from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga. She is a specialist in International Business Law and Master in Private Law from the University of Los Andes.

Carolina has focused her professional practice on the resolution of corporate conflicts, structuring of commercial operations and insolvency. In her career, she has had the opportunity to advise companies from different economic sectors on legal matters of a business nature.

She is currently a senior associate in the Department of Corporate Law and Conflict Resolution at Muñoz Abogados, area where she focuses her practice on comprehensive advice on corporate, contractual and commercial matters, as well as on the resolution of business conflicts.

Carlos is a lawyer from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, who specialized in Administrative Law at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He's been linked to Muñoz Abogados since the year 2000 and currently serves as legal department Director in Cúcuta. There, he provides legal advice to national and international companies in all processes related to Industrial Property. Carlos has sufficient knowledge and skills to analyze, argue, lead projects and solve legal issues that relate to trademark and franchises.

Graduated from the Law School of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. His professional practice has focused on the areas of Consumer Law, Intellectual Property, Competition Law, Procedural Law and Habeas Data. In particular, he has experience in litigation and punitive proceedings before the SIC, the DNDA and before the ordinary and administrative jurisdictions. Besides, he has provided support to our clients in out-of-court disputes and with legal advices on the referred matters. After completing his internship at Muñoz Abogados, Cristian joined the firm as a Paralegal, and currently works as a Junior Lawyer, providing support to the Departments of Competition & Consumer Law and Public Law.

She has extensive experience in planning and organizing administrative and legal functions, he has worked in law firms with an emphasis on labor, civil and administrative litigation. He currently works as a paralegal in the firm, providing support to the area of Labor Law and Social Security.

Guillermo is a lawyer from the Universidad Católica de Colombia, specialist in corporate law from the Universidad del Rosario, currently studying an MBA in Aden Business School, and an expert in intellectual property, market and business law, as well as in personal data protection. He's also been an advisor, corporate consultant, and a counselor for national and international businessmen and corporations. He has been associated with Muñoz Abogados law firm since 2006.

Furthermore, he's been a consultant and a lecturer for the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Federación Nacional de Cafeteros and Innpulsa (Heroes Fest). He currently holds the positions of Partner and Intellectual Property Department Director at the firm. .

Spanish and English

Professional Technician in Accounting and Financial Management, student of Marketing and Advertising at the Compensar University Foundation. She is currently the commercial leader of the firm. She is proactive and a strategist in advising clients and attracting new business, with more than ten (17) years of experience in work related to the commercialization of legal services and in the administration and control of processes before the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce. (SIC), Council of State and INVIMA.

Technician in commercial operations, he is currently an English language student. He currently supports the industrial property department specifically in trademark surveillance at a national and international level. He is in charge of reviewing gazettes and sending proposals in reference to the presentation of oppositions.

International Business student of the Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina and Technologist in International Negotiation of the SENA institute. He has knowledge related to market research for the search and generation of business strategies. He currently works as a paralegal at the firm, providing support in the industrial property department; National and International Brands.

Spanish and English.

She's a lawyer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Conciliator, Specialist in Labor Law, and has a Master's degree in Integrated Management Systems for Labor Risk Prevention, Quality, Environment, and Corporate Social Responsibility. In the area of public administration, Sarmiento has taken part in the legal defense of entities, managing contentious administrative procedures, tutelage, rights to petition, and a large range of legal requirements. She's a business consultant in the management of legal risk and human talent, a research lecturer, and professor in subjects related to labor law, procedural labor law, commercial law, collective labor law, alternative mechanisms for the solution of conflicts, and research foundations. She's also a Legal Bureau consultant for the management of legal procedures and administrative transactions in matters of labor law and social security. She currently works at the firm's Industrial Law Department as a National Distinctive Signs Lawyer.

Spanish

Attorney graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Catholic University of Colombia, Specialist in Constitutional Law from the University of Rosario; Specialist in State Contracting from the Externado de Colombia University; Graduated from the School of Philosophy and Humanities of the Sergio Arboleda University, graduated in Research and University Teaching from the Sergio Arboleda University, with more than 16 years of professional experience in the area of contentious administrative litigation related to Industrial Property, annulments against administrative acts of sanctioning nature, direct reparation and contractual disputes, Sanctioning administrative procedures related to consumer protection, habeas data, legal metrology and health law, Company Law, Preparation and review of civil and commercial contracts, Constitution and Transformation of commercial companies, Intellectual Property and Litigation in general.

Liliana is the Coordinator of the Industrial Law area at Muñoz Abogados, area where she focuses her practice on comprehensive advice on intellectual property, personal data, consumer protection, legal metrology, constitutional law and administrative law.

Lola is a specialist in Business and Finance Law from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She obtained her law degree from the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. She has a vast experience in legal proceedings thanks to her work as a Business Legal Consultant. She also handles alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, an area in which she's certified. Whether it's through judicial or extra-judicial legal representation or solving labor issues and settlements for agroindustrial and financial companies at national scale, Lola is always dedicated to supporting our firm in Huila and adjecent areas. She currently manages Muñoz Abogados's Neiva office.

Lawyer from the Libre University of Cartagena. She has experience in the public and private sectors, handling of disciplinary processes, employment contracts, union agreements, judicial protection, response to petition law, jurisprudential analysis, advice on labour relations, social security and litigation. She currently works as a junior lawyer in the Department of Labor Law and Social Security.

Español e inglés.

Lawyer graduated from the Catholic University of Colombia. Specialist in Labor Law graduated from the Externado University of Colombia, and a specialist in Social Security Law graduated from the Pontifical Xaverian University. Teacher of the Labor Law and Social Security Law specializations at the Pontifical Xaverian University. Linked to Muñoz Abogados as director of the Labor Law area. He has an extensive experience in the public and private sector, as he has previously become Manager II of the Pensioner Attention Center and Head of the Pensioner Attention Department of the defunct Social Security Institute, Manager of Pensions and Deputy Director of economic benefits of the FONCEP, and more recently Legal representative of the Firm Arbelaez & Daza Abogados SAS. With his academic and labor expertise, he has stood out in a broad journey in litigation with the defense of state entities, national companies and individuals, now at the service of Muñoz Abogados, reinforcing the already consolidated team in the Labor area of Muñoz Abogados.

University of Medellín Lawyer, postgraduated in Intellectual Property from the same university and in Civil Procedural Law from the Externado de Colombia University, with complementary studies in Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Management. His professional practice has been developed mainly in business advice towars protecting intangible assets and in compliance with the consumer protection and personal data protection. Likewise, he has an extensive experience in litigation related to consumer protection actions, unfair competition and trademark infringement before the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce and ordinary justice. He is currently coordinator of competition and consumer litigation area, which takes charge of managing the different administrative, judicial and extrajudicial conflicts of our clients in relation to infringement of industrial property rights, unfair conduct, consumer law, restrictive practices of competition, personal data protections and copyright violations.

Español e inglés.

Mechatronics engineer graduated from the Nueva Granada Military University, with certification in mechanical design at CSWA by Dassault System in Solidworks software, with experience in the maintenance and development of industrial automation projects consisting of mechanical, electronic, electrical, control, programming and robotics, currently belongs to the industrial property department in the area of patents where he holds the position of patent engineer.

Chemical Engineer from Colombian National University, specialist in Industrial Property, Copyrights and New Technologies and Master of Business Innovation from Colombian Externado University. Engineer with experience in leadership and management positions, with knowledge and experience in innovation management processes, creativity tools for the development of innovative products and services, technological surveillance and/or competitive intelligence, protection and defense of intellectual property, patent drafting, case analysis (responses to official actions, drafting and responding to oppositions, drafting of appeals, make freedom to operate reports, etc.), management of the other R+D+i activities and knowledge of the use of patents for the transfer of technologies in accordance with the needs of the clients.

Acknowledgments and awards
• Academic Excellence Program of the Faculty of Business Administration of Colombian Externado University. Participation in the Design Thinking and Innovation Course (Colombian Externado University and Harvard Business School given in Bogotá, CO and Boston, MA, US) in recognition of your performance as a student in the master's program, 2016.
• First place for the best scientific work in the Bioprocessing, Bioprospecting and Environmental Room issued within the framework of the Second National Congress on Biotechnology and the First International Seminar on Biobusiness for the project titled "Isolation and characterization of microorganisms with high storage capacity for polyhydroxyalkanoate-type polyesters (PHA's)" Authors: Dolly Montoya, Fabio Aristizábal, Armando Espinosa, Ivonne Gutiérrez, Ma. Victoria Grosso, Dionisio Malagón, Patricia Téllez, Dolly Revelo, Francisco Gonzales, Diego Suarez, Nubia Moreno. Institute of Biotechnology, Colombian National University, Bioprocesses and Bioprospection Group, 2004.
• Meritorious Mention for the Degree Project "Reformulation of the culture medium for the production of delta-endotoxin Bacillus thuringiensis" (Bio-insecticide), Colombian National University, 2002.
She is currently Head of Patents and New Creations Area.

Español e inglés.

Lawyer from the Externado University of Colombia, during his academic life he focused on aspects related to Commercial, Corporate, Insurance and Economic Law. His professional practice has focused on Litigation, Corporate Law and Commercial Law. He currently works at the Law Firm as a Corporate Law and Litigation Assistant, where he provides support to the team in processes at the ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration processes, advice on corporate issues, compliance and SAGRILAFT

Technologist in administrative management, she is now a business administration student at CUN; She has experience in administrative, filing and trademark surveillance areas at a national and international level. She supports the industrial property department in the coordination of the trademark surveillance team. She is the person in charge of sending proposals in reference to the presentation of oppositions.

Lawyer from the Catholic University of Colombia, with extensive experience in the intellectual property area, has great knowledge and expertise in matters related to border measures, criminal proceedings for trademark usurpation, trademark infringement proceedings and everything related to the competition law and consumer law. She currently works as a junior attorney for the consumer and competition department.

Arleth is a lawyer from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda. She is Partner and Administrative Manager of Muñoz Abogados. She is always looking to improve the firm's internal processes in order to achieve business efficiency and an adequate customers service. Arleth has a large experience in health legislation and regulatory matters.

She's a Biomedical Engineering Student. Neira excels at applying a dynamic approach to teamwork; she's open and receptive to change, as well as capable of taking responsibilities for the firm while fulfilling the tasks assigned to her in the archives area. She aims to acquire valuable knowledge in order to take new commitments, with a creative spirit that provides quality work for the firm. She currently works as an archive assistant.

As a countable and financial Labor Technician and a Human Resources Management Student at the Politécnico Grancolombiano, she works at the firm's Accounting and Administrative department.

Technology in Financial Accounting Management and administrative. Eight years of experience in different areas of the firm, such as customer management from the area of property intellectual. She is a committed and experienced person with special emphasis on environments of customer delight. She thrives in demanding fast- paced environments with the aim of providing the highest level of care. She Currently works as a Customer Service Coordinator.

A Public Accountant with a Diploma in International Accounting norm from the Public Accountants' Association. She is in charge of accounting matters in the Firm, and through her labor, she manages to keep all accounting operations up to date, as reflected in the financial statements she periodically updates propending in order to fulfill the Firm's the tax obligations.

Joining Muñoz Abogados back in 1999 and having worked in almost all the departments, being the area of international distinctive signs the most recent, Paola is the best when it comes to knowing the firm's clients. She has a vast knowledge in Intellectual Property and customer relationship management. She is always concerned about delivering a good service to her clients, with whom she has developed a cordial and close relationship, allowing her, in many cases, to anticipate to their needs. Passionate about customer and quality services, she is in charge of coordinating this area, from where she gladly leads all relating activities.

Spanish and Portuguese.

Es la persona con la que tenemos el primer contacto, dándole una grata bienvenida a Muñoz Abogados y le brinda atención al personal interno y externo en sus requerimientos de información; mantiene el control en la recepción de correspondencia; además de brindar apoyo procesos de almacenamiento de documentos enfocados en actividades administrativas encomendadas para el logro y consecución de los objetivos propuestos por Muñoz Abogados. Karen cuenta con estudios en administradora Hotelera - Turística y 4 semestres en Psicología.