Diana Collazos

Practice Areas

In addition to her solid experience in the structuring and execution of transport concessions, Diana has an extensive and solid practice in the structuring and execution of construction contracts, EPC, O&M, interfaces, and trust contracts, among others. In the same way, she has successfully advised the structuring and execution of construction projects under FIDIC schemes in their various modalities (Red, Yellow, Silver), and under NEC schemes. She has also developed a successful experience representing her clients in national and international arbitrations, as well as in different dispute resolution mechanisms.

She has advised multinational and international companies on acquisitions and sales of infrastructure projects, as well as participation in road construction, mass transportation, aviation, health, and hospital infrastructure projects, throughout Latin America.

Career

Lawyer with more than 20 years of professional experience in the structuring, negotiation, execution, financing and local and international arbitrations, concessions and construction of complex infrastructures, and long-term large-scale projects in various countries in the LATAM region, and under mechanisms of APP/grants, contracts, construction, PMO, EPC, FIDIC, NEC, G2G, among others.

She has significant experience in national (local) arbitrations in Peru and Colombia, as well as in international arbitrations in Washington D.C., Paris, Miami, among others, under UNCITRAL and CAIP rules, obtaining successful results.

She has professional experience derived from direct work in important investment and execution companies of this type of projects in various countries of the LATAM region such as Peru, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Jamaica, among others, and from specialized legal consulting to them.

Diana has a holistic view of the business and the industry infrastructure, accompanied by strong commercial and communication skills, multidisciplinary and multicultural team leadership, strategic thinking, critical thinking, results orientation, as well as proven technical, financial and economic expertise, characteristic of this kind of projects.

She has been in charge of the legal and general management of transport infrastructure concession companies in both Colombia and Peru and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of different transport infrastructure concession companies.

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

French