Claudia Barrero

Practice Areas

Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A

Career

Partner at PPU, expert in mergers and acquisitions of listed companies, and has extensive experience in capital markets, infrastructure projects and corporate governance matters. She has advised important clients on IPO's and debt issues, as well as to several Colombian and international clients in matters such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions and all related corporate governance aspects. She has also advised the Colombian government in various privatization processes, specially in the energy sector.

Professional Memberships

Scholarship Officer of the Women Lawyers Interest Group, IBA (2018-2019).

Member of the Family Firm Institute, United States since 2016.

Member of the board of financial institutions and domestic companies.

Main member of the Board of SCG Legal, United States (2011-2016).

She was the first non-American to chair the Board of SCG Legal, United States (2014).

Publications

Latin America’s fourth biggest economy is facing difficult times, but Colombia’s law firms remain optimistic". LACCA- 2015

Personal

Law Degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia (1992). Post-graduate degree in Commercial Law from Universidad de los Andes (1994). LLM in International Business Legal Studies from University of Exeter (UK) (1996). Member of the Family Firm Institute, United States, recently appointed Scholarship Officer of the Women Lawyers Interest Group, IBA (2018-2019).