Alberto Zuleta Londoño Partner Carrera 7 No. 71-52 Torre B 9 th Floor Bogotá D.C Colombia Tel: (571) 313 7800 ext. 235 Fax: (571) 312 2420 azuleta@cardenasycardenas.com Education 1999 Harvard Law School. Master of Laws (LL.M.) Boston, USA. Cambridge, Massachusetts, EEUU. 1998 Universidad de Los Andes. Specialist in International Contractual Regime. Bogotá, Colombia. 1995 Attorney. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. Practice areas Litigation & Arbitration Competition / Antitrust Languages English Spanish Admitted to practice Colombia, 1995 Experience Cárdenas & Cárdenas Abogados Ltda. Partner (Since 2014). Cárdenas & Cárdenas Abogados Ltda. Senior Associate (2011-2014). Teacher of Antitrust and Costumer Protection at Los Andes University for under graduate and postgraduate students. (2000-2015). Director and professor of the Specialization in International Business Law, Faculty of Law, Los Andes University. (2003-2005).
Gómez Pinzón Zuleta Abogados S.A. Member of the Team of Dispute Resolution & Investment Protection (2005-2011). Private practice of Law in different firms (1994-2011). Fernández de Soto & Asociados. Associate (2002-2005). Fernando Londoño Abogados Asociados Ltda. Associate (1995-2002). Gómez-Pinzón Abogados S.A. Associate (1995). Cases and Transactions Litigation and Arbitration Counsel to a foreign oil Company acting as claimant in an ICC international arbitration, with regard to the assignment of two oil E&P blocks. Amount of dispute: USD 22 million. Counsel to a Colombian company in the biofuels sector who acts as claimant in an international arbitration involving a Brazilian construction company, with regard to an EPC contract for the construction of a biodiesel plant. Amount of dispute: USD 4 million. Counsel to a Colombian oil services company who acted as respondent in an arbitration concerning a dispute over alleged negligence in the performance of work-over services. Amount of dispute: USD 4.5 million. Counsel to a consortium of Colombian engineering companies in an arbitration against a Colombian Governmental entity with regard to breach of contract in an agreement for the elaboration of the detailed engineering and the subsequent manufacturing of structures for the building of an oil refinery. Amount of dispute: USD 6 million. Chairman in an arbitration tribunal overseeing a dispute between two private parties and a financial trust company regarding a guarantee trust agreement. Amount of the dispute: USD 1.5 million. Competition Law Notification and information of business integrations regarding software sectors and computing, financing and rating services, orthopedic products, oil service delivery and others. Assessor in law material for Competition Law to companies in the production of coffee sectors, software, financing services of payment methods of low value and others.
Recognitions, Memberships and Publications Recognitions Recognized Attorney in Chambers Latin America, Chambers Global, Best Lawyers, Legal 500 Latin America and Who s Who Legal Commercial Arbitration. Memberships List of international arbitrators of the Center of Arbitration and Conciliation of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá (Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá) A List of arbitrators of the Center of Arbitration and Conciliation of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá (Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá) List of international arbitrators of the American Chamber of Commerce of Perú- AMCHAM Perú. Latin American Arbitration Group of the International Chamber of Commerce in (Grupo Latinoamericano de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional de París) Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB) Colombian Arbitration Committee (Comité Colombiano de Arbitraje) Institute for Transnational Arbitration (The Center for American and International Law) - Advisory Board. Publications 1. Article The arbitrate procedure in the new international arbitration law ( El procedimiento arbitral en la nueva ley de arbitraje internacional ). Book: Estatuto Arbitral Colombiano- Análisis y aplicación de la ley 1563 de 2012. Colombian Committee of Arbitration (Comité Colombiano de Arbitraje), Legis Editores S.A., 2013. 2. Article The resignation to the annulment resource against the report of commercial arbitration ( La Renuncia al Recurso de Anulación contra el Laudo en el Arbitraje Comercial ). Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje Magazine, 2011. Cevallos Editora Jurídica, 2012. 3. Article The regulation about the maintenance of resale prices: the next chapter of Colombian law of competition. ( La regulación sobre mantenimiento de precios de reventa: el próximo capítulo del derecho colombiano de la competencia ). Law of
Competition Magazine (Revista De Derecho De La Competencia). Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Faculty of Law (Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas). Economic Law Department (Departamento de Derecho Económico). Volume 7 No. 7, January - December of 2011. CEDEC XI. 4. Article The Selection Clauses of Forum and Selection of Law in International Recruitment: A vision from Private International Colombian Law ( Las Cláusulas de Selección de Foro y Selección de Ley en la Contratación Internacional: Una visión desde el Derecho Internacional Privado Colombiano ). Magazine of Private Law (Revista de Derecho Privado) No. 44, Los Andes University, Law Faculty, July- December of 2010. 5. Article The relevance of the so called Sentence Arbitration Nationality in the New York Convention ( La relevancia de la llamada Nacionalidad de la Sentencia Arbitral en la Convención de Nueva York ). Co-written with Eduardo Zuleta Jaramillo, in Ecuadorian Magazine of Arbitration ( Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje ), Ecuadorian Institute of Arbitration (Instituto Ecuatoriano de Arbitraje), Cevallos Editora Jurídca, 2010. 6. Article The Civil Extra-contractual Responsibility, Contractual and Pre-contractual of Legal Persons ( La Responsabilidad Civil Extracontractual, Contractual y Precontractual de Las Personas Jurídicas ). Law of Obligations Section II, Volume 1 (Derecho de las Obligaciones Tomo II, Volumen 1). Los Andes University, Law Faculty- Temis Editorial 2010. 7. Article The influence of North America in contractual Colombian Law ( La influencia norteamericana en el derecho colombiano de contratos ). Liber Amicorum in tribute to Cesar Gómez Estrada. Rosario University Editorial (Editorial Universidad del Rosario), 2009. 8. Article Ten years of Merck: a decade of evolution of commercial international arbitration in Colombia ( Diez años de Merck: una década de evolución del arbitraje comercial internacional en Colombia ). Co-written with Eduardo Zuleta Jaramillo, in Ecuadorian Magazine of Arbitration ( Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje ), Ecuadorian Institute of Arbitration (Instituto Ecuatoriano de Arbitraje), Cevallos Editora Jurídca, 2009. 9. Article The VI Article of the New York Convention ( El Artículo VI de la Convención de Nueva York ). Co-written with Eduardo Zuleta Jaramillo, in The International Commercial Arbitration Studio of the New York Convention with motive of its 50th Anniversary. Rosario University; Law Faculty of Buenos Aires University Abeledo Perrot, 2008 1st Edition.
10. Article The Constitutional Protection of Arbitration ( La Protección Constitucional del Arbitraje ), in International Arbitration Actual Tensions (Arbitraje Internacional- Tensiones Actuales). Legis Editores S.A., 2007; Colombian Arbitration Committee (Comité Colombiano de Arbitraje), 2007. Pages 67-99. 11. Article Microsoft to the Community Authorities: Reflections about Political Antitrust in International Operations ( Microsoft Ante las Autoridades Comunitarias: Reflexiones Sobre Política Antimonopolios en Operaciones Internacionales ), in the book Merchant Contemporary Law, Collection Private Law and Globalization (Derecho Mercantil Contemporáneo, Colección Derecho Privado y Globalización ), Jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez Ltda. Editions, Bogotá, Colombia, 2.005. 12. Article The antitrust laws in an economic integration context: The case of the area of free trade in the Americas-ALCA ( Las leyes antimonopolios en un contexto de integración económica: El caso del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas- ALCA ), Colombian Economy Magazine ( Economía Colombiana ), Contraloría General de la República, 299 edition, November/December of 2003.