MINING AND ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION

• Jurisdiction: Derecho Internacional

International Mining and Oil & Gas Law, Development and Investment
(Apr 2009)
CHAPTER 12B
MINING AND ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION
José Vicente Zapata Lugo
Holguín Neira & Pombo
Bogotá

Jose Vicente Zapata is Partner Counsel in corporate and commercial law matters. He is recognized as leader in environmental matters, providing counseling services in these areas to associations, the government and companies from the electric, oil and gas, mining, agrochemical and industrial sectors. He is now further recognized as a leading practitioner in mining and oil and gas (upstream and downstream) ventures (counseling many of the most important multinational corporations in Colombia). Similarly, Mr. Zapata has been legal counsel in the structuring of foreign investment transactions, mergers and acquisitions, as well as reorganization of corporations in Colombia. Mr. Zapata has been member of various Boards of Directors of multinational corporations in the automotive, energy, telecommunications, industrial and food sectors. He has also acted as off-counsel to various Ministries in Colombia. He is member of the American Society of International Law, the Institute for Energy Law (of the Center for American and International Law), Founder and General Secretary of the "Instituto Colombiano de Derecho Ambiental" and member of the "Colegio de Abogados de Minas y Petróleos", member of the Institute for Energy Law of the Center for...