Lorenzo Villegas Carrasquilla

Technology, Media & Communications (TMC)

Antitrust, Competition & Trade

Dispute Resolution

- 2018-present – Partner, CMS Rodríguez-Azuero, Bogotá, Colombia

- 2010-2018 – Director, Lorenzo Villegas Consultores y Abogados, Bogotá, Colombia

- 2006-2010 – Chairman and Commissioner,

- Regulatory Telecommunications Commission (CRT), Bogotá, Colombia

- 2004-2006 – Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, International Law and International Arbitration Group, Paris, France

 Member of the New York Bar Association.

 Young Arbitrators Forum, Internacional Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

 Grupo de Estudios en Internet, Comercio Electrónico, Telecomunicaciones e Informática – GECTI, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes

 Réseaux de Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation, MADP-Science Po

 Asociación Iberoamericana de Estudios de Regulación, ASIER

 Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), London Court of International Arbitration – LCIA

 Association de Droit Public de l´Économie, Universidad de París 2

 International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Young & International Association, American Arbitration Association – AAA

 Author, "Regulation as proven fact in international investment arbitration", pending publication

 Author, "Debates about the consent to the arbitration agreement by the State in international investment arbitration", Arbitral Law Treaty, Volume I, Editorial Ibañez Group, 2011

 Author, "Investment protection agreements and the regulatory power of the State: an analysis of indirect expropriation and fair and equitable treatment", International Review of Arbitration no: 12, pgs. 57-104, January-June 2010

 Author, "The Law on ICT and the regulation of telecommunications: The Communications Regulation Commission", Comments to the Law on Information and Communication Technologies - ICT (Law 1341 of 2009), Universidad Externado De Colombia, 2010.

 Author, "Regulation and foreign investment: The Treaties of Reciprocal Promotion of Investments and the standard of Fair and Equitable Treatment", International Law, Colombian Journal of International Law, N ° 15, July-December 2009

 Author, "Problems of modern contracting and consumer protection in information and communication technologies", Universitas, No. 117, July-December 2008

 Author, "New Generation Networks, Cybersecurity and the Right of Telecommunications Users", Telecommunications Law, GECTI, Uniandes Editions - Editorial Témis, 2008

 Author, "Market Economy and Telecommunications", Perspectiva Magazine, Institute of Political Science, edition No. 15, December 2007

 Author, "Legal Notion of Regulation", 15 years of telecommunications regulation in Colombia, CRT, 2007

 Author, "Reflections on the Consolidation of the Regulatory State", 15 years of telecommunications regulation in Colombia, CRT, 2007

 Author, "Advances in telecommunications: analysis", La República, August 31, 2007

 Author, "Security in telecommunications networks", Protection and Security, Colombian Security Council, year 53, No. 313, May-June 2007

 Author, "The action of tutelary a new mechanism for review of arbitration awards in Colombia?", Revista de Arbitragem e Mediacao, No. 7, October-December 2005

 Author, "Design and institutional performance of regulatory agencies", www.dussan.net, 2005

 Author, "Regulation of public services: constitutional redefinition of the Colombian State", Constitutional law, critical perspectives, Legis, Bogotá, 2001