DRET Legal
Ranked by Chambers Latin America, Leaders League, and Legal 500, Colombian law firm DRET Legal provides practical and strategic counsel that anticipates and responds to client needs. DRET Legal helps multinational and domestic companies, investors and high-net worth individuals thrive in globalized and highly competitive environment by providing full-service legal counsel driven by ideas and innovation.
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Overview
DRET is a law firm based in Colombia with offices in Bogotá and Medellín. Our practice areas are Banking and Finance, Energy and Natural Resources, Corporate law, Fintech, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution, Insurance and Reinsurance and Tax/International Trade.
One of the axes of the firm is its work methodology called the “360° approach” according to which, from its specialty, each area of practice revolves around the needs and projects of its clients, which allows them both efficiencies and responses faster and closer to customer needs, such as practical, comprehensive and strategic solutions.
Although we have been involved in different transactions and projects across industries and sectors, our practices areas have a special focus on construction, real estate, insurance and reinsurance, banking, O&G and Energy (including renewable energy), retail, logistics and transportation and agribusiness.
We have a solid team experienced partners and qualified lawyers.
Banking and Finance
- Financing structuring
- Mass and consumer banking
- Digital banking / Fintech
Trusts - Guarantees at first demand and other collateral.
- Derivatives
- Loan Syndication
- Regulatory issues
- Financial litigation
Corporate
- Counselling on corporate matters
- Drafting and negotiation of contracts
- Business structures
- Investment mechanisms
- Shareholder’s agreements
- Join Ventures
- Due diligence
- Risk management
- Insolvency (restructuring & business failure)
- Corporate and M&A litigation
Real Estate
- Real Estate projects
- Land management
- Urban permits
- Structuring real estate projects
- Real Estate contracts & negotiation
- Due diligence
- Acquisitions & dispositions of urban and rural land
- Assessment of urban planning and permits in both urban and rural land
- Advising and negotiation of lease contracts
- Developing strategies to secure acquisition and disposition plans of land
- Real Estate
- Litigation
Insurance and Reinsurance
- Regulatory proceeding before Governmental Agencies
- Design and feasibility of financial insurance and reinsurance
- Claim proceeding before insurers and reinsurers.
- Tenders and RFPs
- Insurance litigation
- Structuring of M&A Insurance, Litigation Buyout and Tax Liability
- Insurance Advisor on Project Finance, Private Equity and M&A
- Alternative Risk Transfer Solutions
- Design and incorporation of captive reinsurers
- Insurance Linked Securities
- Due Diligence
Energy and Natural Resources
- Regulatory Affairs
- Renewable Energies.
- Gas Operations and Gas Transportation.
- Power Operations.
- Oil & Gas Operations.
- Special Projects (LNG, CNG, Compression, etc).
- Generation and Self-Generation Projects
- Environmental legal advice.
- Relationship with stakeholders.
- Legal accompaniment before regulatory authorities
- Energy and Oil & Gas litigation.
Fintech
- Design and feasibility of FinTech Solutions
- Design and feasibility of InsurTech Solutions
- Cryptocurrency negotiation
- Alternative money lending
- Digital payment systems
- Massive money lending leverage
- Design of LegalTech solutions
- Design of RegTech solutions
- Design of Blockchain y Smartcontracts solutions
- Financing structuring
- Investment structuring
- Regulatory proceeding before Governmental Agencies
Dispute Resolution
- International Arbitration
- Domestic Arbitration
- Mediation & conciliation
- Negotiations
- Dispute boards
- Preventive litigation
- Administrative-law disputes
- Commercial disputes
- Constitutional actions
- Class actions
Tax and International Trade
- National and local (departmental and municipal) taxes
- International tax law & double taxation treaties
- National and international reorganization
- Corporate tax planning
- Individuals and families tax and wealth planning.
- Risk management & due diligence
- Tax litigation and tax proceedings
News and Resources
Learn more about industry trends, member firm accomplishments, network news and the changing legal or regulatory environment for our clients.
Congratulations to our nine member firms in Latin America for their well-deserved recognition!
Rankings include:
Argentina: Richards, Cardinal, Tützer, Zabala & Zaefferer –
Tier 2, TMT with Leading Partner Lisandro Frene.…
Congratulations to ten of our Latin America member firms honored in 20 practice areas. This year’s Chambers Latin America 2025 recognition includes 48 individual lawyers, including 9 Associates to Watch, 2 Up and Coming, 1 Eminent Practitioner, and 2 Senior Statespeople.…
- Network News
Ranked by Chambers Latin America, Leaders League, and Legal 500, Colombian law firm DRET Legal provides practical and strategic counsel that anticipates and responds to client needs.…
- Network News
We’re pleased to announce three new members: DRET Legal in Colombia; Hernández & Hernández Abogados (HHA) in the Dominican Republic; and Villarreal VGF in Mexico.…
- Legal Updates
The Council of State clarifies that Article 3 of Law 2161 of 2021, which increases the contribution of the annual premium of the SOAT from 50% to 52%, is in force since November 26, 2021.…
- Legal Updates
Through a Popular Action, the Council of State decided to modify the initial insured value of a policy considering that it was a threat to the collective right to the defense of public assets. …
- Legal Updates
Partners Julian Roberto Avila and César Augusto Rodríguez Martínez participated in the Featured Cases of this volume.…
