Maria Paulina Santacruz Salazar

She advises corporations, investment funds, family offices and sovereign entities on cross-border transactions and disputes across Latin America and the United States, working in Spanish, English, German and Portuguese and across both civil and common law systems.

Ms. Santacruz advises on mergers and acquisitions, investment fund formation, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and cross-border financings. She works with corporations, fund sponsors, investors and family offices on the vehicles and transactions through which capital moves between Latin America, the United States and Europe, with recurring experience in energy, telecommunications and technology.

Ms. Santacruz represents sovereign States and State-owned entities in investment treaty and commercial arbitration, including for the Republic of Colombia in ICSID proceedings. Her earlier work in public law, at the Constitutional Court of Colombia and at the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the Organization of American States, informs how she approaches disputes involving States.

Ms. Santacruz advises family businesses on governance, succession, holding structures and the vehicles through which they invest across borders — work she approaches from both sides of the table, as a third-generation member and Family Council member of a Colombian family group with operations across Latin America. She is a member of the Family Business Network, the leading global organization of family businesses.