Vanegas Morales Consultores

Vanegas Morales Consultores, lead by managing partner Stella Vanegas, is a boutique law firm, pioneer in the field of privacy, data protection, and financial data protection regulation. Existing for almost a decade, its work seeks to change paradigms through the ongoing pursuit of new alternatives in the practice of law. VMC develops its work through a multidisciplinary perspective that generates benefits for its clients. The professionals working in VMC have a global vision of matters, focusing on the particularities of each client and industry, and they are permanently updating their knowledge in local and foreign regulation.

Vanegas Morales is recognized by clients who trust in its criteria, research, and its thoughtfulness as the foundation of its work. Parting from these values, the firm has consolidated lasting and successful relationships with the clients.

The main practice area in VMC is privacy and data protection, including financial data protection, which in Colombia is regulated by a separate law.

The firm has consolidated an interdisciplinary and innovative practice with the support of experts in information security, generating a practice that understands its clients’ needs and which allows making decisions from a legal perspective, as well as from the serious analysis of the implications that treating personal information has in business, commercial, and financial activities.

It funds its legal advice on technical knowledge of new technologies and on the adequate assessment of the risks to achieve implementing the security measures that may be required to abide by Colombian regulation that is applicable to the matter.

From its knowledge and practical scope, VMC has facilitated the celebration of alliances between Colombian and foreign companies that seek to implement improvements in the way they approach data holders, in the efficiency of their services, and in the generation of added value in their products.

Since 2019, VMC is the Colombian law firm belonging to the Privacy Rules alliance of legal and technical privacy experts in 50+ jurisdictions.

VMC has also a very active role in ADAPRI (Colombian Association of Privacy and Data) since 2020, when it was established.