Meet the team that serves our clients:
GGA has a multidisciplinary team of lawyers with experience and graduate degrees to meet our clients' needs.
Our lawyers trained at Colombia's leading law firms and in corporate legal departments before joining GGA. That background allows us to deliver high-quality services with the best value for our clients.
Juan Manuel
Guevara Araujo
Managing Partner
Practice Areas: Corporate Law, Compliance, and Mergers & Acquisitions
EXPERIENCE
Founding partner of Guevara García Abogados. With more than fifteen years of practice, Juan Manuel served as General Counsel of International Tug S.A.S., now SAAM Towage Colombia S.A.S., managing the corporate, contractual and legal affairs of a marine towage operation from the inside.
Previously, Juan Manuel worked at KPMG Advisory, Tax & Legal as a supervising associate in the corporate and commercial affairs group, in the legal department of Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Telefónica Movistar), and at Asesores Legales Asociados.
Juan Manuel leads the firm's corporate, compliance and M&A work and has represented clients from a range of industries before judicial and administrative authorities.
EDUCATION
- Master's Degree in Private Law, Universidad de los Andes.
- Graduate Specialization in Commercial Law, Universidad de los Andes.
- Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
- Certificate Program in M&A Law and Corporate Transactions, Universidad de los Andes.
- Certificate Program in Risk Management with a focus on SAGRILAFT, PTEE and Data Protection, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
- Member of the Colegio de Abogados Javerianos.
Mariana
García Díaz
Partner
Practice Areas: Employment Law, Social Security & Pensions, and Immigration
EXPERIENCE
Partner at Guevara García Abogados and head of the employment practice. Mariana has twenty-one years of practice devoted almost entirely to employment law: senior lawyer heading the employment practice at Para Rodríguez Abogados, associate and senior supervisor at KPMG Advisory, Tax & Legal, and senior lawyer at Duarte García Abogados.
Earlier experience includes the employment group at Cuberos, Cortés, Gutiérrez Abogados, Quintero y Quintero Asesores, Aciertos Humanos as employment law counsel, and the office of José Gregorio Hernández Galindo.
EDUCATION
- Graduate Specialization in Employment Law and Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Germán Andrés
Ducón Cote
Of Counsel
Practice Area: Tax Law and Tax Advisory
EXPERIENCE
Germán leads the firm's tax practice. Seventeen years of practice that began at the DIAN, Colombia's tax and customs authority, in the Bogotá Tax Office, and continued on the taxpayer side: Tax & Legal manager at Mazars Legal Services, senior supervisor and lawyer in the tax litigation and advisory group at KPMG Advisory, Tax & Legal, and senior lawyer at ProColombia.
That combination allows Germán to anticipate how the tax authority will read each transaction.
EDUCATION
- Graduate Specialization in Corporate Tax Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia.
- Graduate Specialization in Commercial Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia.
- Law Degree, Universidad Externado de Colombia.
