Santiago González

Practice Areas

Corporate; Energy; Environment and Natural Resources; Mergers and Acquisitions

Career

Santiago is a partner at Dentons providing legal counsel mainly in the oil and gas, energy, mining, and cannabis sectors. Santiago has more than 10 years of experience in legal matters related to hydrocarbons, mining, natural resources, agribusiness, and real estate. His work focuses on mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, finance, regulation, drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements for the acquisition, operation and transfer of participating interests in natural resources assets.

Santiago has provided legal advice to a wide range of clients especially in renewable energy generation projects.

Recently, he has provided counsel to oil & gas companies such as Gran Tierra Energy in its acquisition of a participating interest and operatorship in E&P contract held by Vetra Exploración & Producción, Argentinian energy conglomerate Petroquimica Comodoro Rivadavia in its acquisition of a participating interest in a gas producing field, and La Luna E&P, in their day-to-day operations in Colombia, including drilling of exploratory wells. Santiago has also been legal advisor in Colombia to cannabis companies such as MedReleaf Corp. (subsidiary of Aurora Cannabis Inc.) in their opening of the Colombian cannabis project and Canadian Khiron Life Sciences in their financings and listing at the TSX Venture Exchange.

Santiago graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has graduate studies in oil, gas and mining law and an LLM from the London School of Economics.

Work Highlights

Frontera Energy: Legal advisor to the client in the signing of an assignment contract in order to assign 35% of its participation in a gas block.

Confidential Client: Provided legal on the sale of 100% of the shares of Analizar Laboratorio Clínico.

New Stratus Energy: Advising the client in the acquisition of 100% of the shares of a Repsol company with oil assets in Ecuador.

Patterson – UTI Energy: Legal advisor to Patterson - UTI Energy on the acquisition of the Colombian companies Proveedora Internacional de Taladros and Pioneer de Colombia Sdad and the Panamanian company Pioneer Latina Group.

Languages Spoken

English; Spanish

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