Isabella Gandini, Margarita Llorente and José Santos Ossa, new Cuatrecasas partners
Cuatrecasas hires Isabella Gandini, Margarita Llorente and José Santos Ossa as new partners. Gandini and Llorente, experts in labor and employment and real estate, respectively, join the Bogotá office in two practice areas that will be part of major business decisions in the coming years. Santos Ossa, expert in public law and regulatory markets, will do the same when joining the Santiago office.
Isabella Gandini
Gandini has over 20 years’ experience advising national and international companies on hiring processes and contract termination, company mergers and acquisitions (due diligences and best practices), negotiating work-life balance with employees, proceedings before administrative authorities, and social security matters.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a Postgraduate Degree in Labor Law from the same university, and a Master in Human Resource Management from Universitat de Barcelona.
Margarita Llorente
Margarita Llorente has over 25 years’ experience practicing law in companies in the real estate and raw materials sectors. Her experience as an in-house lawyer was consolidated in companies like Glencore Colombia and Amarilo, where she was vice president of corporate, legal and sustainability matters. Her contrasting experience in the sector provides her with solid and strategic knowledge of the real estate industry, particularly of complex corporate project development transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate financing transactions.
She has a Bachelor of Laws from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a Master of Laws from Boston University, and is admitted to practice law in Colombia and New York State.
José Santos Ossa
Santos Ossa has almost 15 years’ experience advising national and international companies on public, administrative, regulatory, and private law, as well as on intellectual property, privacy, and personal data protection matters. He has represented clients in judicial review proceedings, particularly in public procurement, access to public information (transparency) and regulatory litigation.
He has a Bachelor of Laws from Universidad Diego Portales, a Diploma in Regulatory Affairs relating to Medication, Biologics and Cosmetics from the faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Universidad de Chile, and a Master of Laws from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany). He also lectures at prestigious educational institutions in Chile.
