Pérez-Llorca announces its entry into the Colombian market by integrating with Gómez-Pinzón
Pérez-Llorca takes another step forward in its internationalization strategy after signing an integration agreement with the top Colombian law firm Gómez-Pinzón, which will provide an initial team of 120 lawyers in its Bogotá and Medellín offices.
In the words of Pedro Pérez-Llorca, managing partner of Pérez-Llorca: “This integration will allow us to compete for leadership in Colombia and consolidate Pérez-Llorca in the Latin American region, advancing our international growth strategy. We aspire, together with Gómez-Pinzón, to build a firm that is the natural choice for large clients, both in domestic and international matters, in their most complex transactions, litigation or regulatory matters; we also want to be the ideal platform to attract the best professionals and to develop their careers with us. Beyond this, we intend to be a Colombian firm, not a foreign one, and to make a positive contribution to the development of this legal market”.
Caption, from left to right, the partners: Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Iván Delgado, Natalia García, Mauricio Piñeros, Lina Uribe, Mauricio Jaramillo and Fausto Romero-Miura.
Pérez-Llorca and Gómez-Pinzón
This is the first time that a leading Colombian law firm is fully integrated, legally and economically, with a Latin American firm. The transaction is based on Gómez-Pinzón’s strong positioning and track record in the local market, and contemplates the incorporation of both its partners and all its professionals to the Pérez-Llorca structure. The integration is expected to be completed in the next few weeks after the approval of the governing bodies of both firms.
For Mauricio Piñeros, Managing Partner of Gómez-Pinzón: “the combination of Pérez-Llorca’s experience and capabilities with our deep knowledge of the local environment, added to the talent and vision of our team, will allow us to accompany our clients in increasingly complex and cross-border matters, and we will be able to offer our professionals a career of international development. We are convinced that this integration will mark a before and after in the evolution of the legal practice in the region”.
Iván Delgado, International Executive Partner of Pérez-Llorca, points out: “the integration with Gómez-Pinzón reinforces our objective of consolidating a solid regional firm model, with the capacity to offer a differential value proposition in the Iberian and Latin American markets, with a special focus on South America. We share with Gómez-Pinzón values, ambition and a common vision of the advice we want to offer our clients, and together we aspire to become the local firm of reference for international investors in the region”.
Advancement and consolidation of Pérez-Llorca’s international project
Pérez-Llorca takes another step forward in its internationalization strategy, led by Iván Delgado, International executive partner of Pérez-Llorca, consolidating a trajectory that in recent years has included key milestones such as the integration of the elite Mexican law firm González Calvillo, the establishment of the firm in Portugal and the strengthening of its presence in strategic financial and regulatory centers such as London, New York, Brussels and Singapore. This roadmap has had a direct impact on the firm’s results, which closed 2024 with a pro forma global turnover of 165.4 million euros, representing an increase of 33% over the previous year, with particularly outstanding growth in its business outside Spain, which already accounted for 20% of the Firm’s revenues in the last financial year.
The integration with the Mexican law firm González Calvillo was closed in 2024, marking Pérez-Llorca’s entry into the Mexican market, a key axis in the flow of investments between America, the United States and Europe. At that time, the transaction involved the incorporation of close to 100 lawyers and a total team of
