Energy & Natural Resources: Mining
Latin America Guide 2025 : Colombia
Band 1
About
Provided by Lloreda Camacho & Co
Our advice includes the accompaniment in all stages of the development of mining activities. We have a team of highly specialized and experienced professionals with deep knowledge of the subject.
Our clients include companies such as "Major", "Mid-tier", and "Junior" companies, as well as banks and investment funds of the first order, which gives us a comprehensive and very broad vision of the mining sector.
Our portfolio includes services such as:
- Establishment or incorporation of the required vehicle for the development of mining activities.
- Assistance and representation in the application or negotiation of mining titles and their supervision before the mining authorities.
- Elaboration of all the contracts required according to the client's needs to advance their activities, such as business collaboration contracts (joint ventures), option contracts, purchase and sale of mining titles, guarantees, pledges, mortgages, easements, construction and assembly, drilling, earthmoving, mining development, among others.
- Accompaniment in negotiations with communities.
- Accompaniment in prior consultation processes.
- Accompaniment and representation before administrative and judicial authorities.
- Advice in obtaining and tracking on environmental permits and licenses.
Chambers Review
Lloreda Camacho & Co is a pre-eminent firm that is respected for its leading mining practice group and is frequently retained by high-profile clients that are active in the exploration and extraction of gold in Colombia. Lloreda Camacho & Co represents mining companies and foreign investors in transactional matters, including acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as assisting them with regulatory considerations, such as due diligence of mining titles. The team is also known to assist with sector-specific dispute resolution.
Work Highlights
- Lloreda Camacho & Co represented Minerales Santa Ana Colombia before the Colombian National Mining Agency in an alleged breach of citizens' rights aimed at obtaining the nullity of the company's mining concession agreements in the municipality of Falan, in the Tolima department.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lloreda Camacho & Co has smart and innovative people to handle our various cases and innovative options to enable our business to reach successful agreements."
"Lloreda Camacho & Co has a good interdisciplinary team of professionals with a very good judgement and experience in the mining sector. They are methodical and timely in their responses."
"Lloreda Camacho & Co has smart and innovative people to handle our various cases and innovative options to enable our business to reach successful agreements."
"Lloreda Camacho & Co has a good interdisciplinary team of professionals with a very good judgement and experience in the mining sector. They are methodical and timely in their responses."
Notable Practitioners
Stellar practitioner Ignacio Santamaría Escobar is praised by market commentators for his highly esteemed mining practice in Colombia.
"Ignacio Santamaría is an excellent professional with great experience and in-depth legal knowledge."
"Ignacio Santamaría is a professional with extensive experience in the Colombian mining sector and he has been of great help in advising our company."
Esteemed practitioner Ángela Salazar is highly endorsed by clients for her practice in the Colombian mining arena.
"Ángela María Salazar is extremely competent and experienced in mining matters and knows the evolution of the regulation and cases like few others in Colombia."
Ranked Lawyers at
Lloreda Camacho & Co
Colombia
Members
Provided by Lloreda Camacho & Co
Industries
Provided by Lloreda Camacho & Co
Mining & Metals