Juan Ignacio focuses his practice on domestic and international arbitration and domestic litigation before ordinary, administrative, and constitutional jurisdictions. He has experience in resolving infrastructure, construction, real estate, and hydrocarbon disputes conducted under the rules of the Chambers of Commerce of Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali and international arbitration under the rules of the ICC and the ICDR. He is a member of the List of Secretaries of the Arbitration Center of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce.
Before joining Rincón Castro Abogados, Juan Ignacio worked for 7 years at the largest law firm in Colombia. He is a guest lecturer in international arbitration classes.
Dispute Resolution and Public Law.
– Specialization in Procedural Law, Universidad del Rosario, 2017.
– Lawyer, Universidad de los Andes, 2013
– Admitted to practice law in Colombia, 2013.
· Spanish
· English
– Successfully represented Oleoducto Bicentenario de Colombia S.A.S. in the most considerable extrajudicial conciliation process at law in the history of Colombia, which concluded four national arbitrations and one international arbitration against different shippers of the pipeline above, with claims amounting to more than US$ 600 million.
– Successfully represented a leading U.S. power generation company as defendant and counterclaimant in a national arbitration brought by a contractor that culminated in an out-of-court settlement that represented a savings of more than USD 3 million for our client.
– Successfully represented a leading Spanish company in the final waste management market as defendant and counterclaimant in an international arbitration administered by the ICC International Court of Arbitration and arising out of an option contract, culminating in an award granting compensation over USD 7 million. Successfully represented a leading Spanish company in an international arbitration administered by the ICC International Court of Arbitration, arising out of an option contract, culminating in an award of USD 7 million.
– Successfully represented one of the most representative Colombian companies in the construction of infrastructure projects in a domestic arbitration against one of the most representative Colombian business groups in that market, which culminated in an out-of-court settlement that represented a benefit for our client of more than USD 5 million, derived from a contract for the acquisition of rights in an infrastructure project in western Colombia.
– Successfully represented one of Colombia’s most important oil pipelines in a national arbitration initiated by one of its shippers derived from an operational incident, culminating in an out-of-court settlement that represented a savings of more than USD 1 million for our client.
– Successfully represented a company as part of a power generation business group in an amicable settlement initiated by a Colombian power distributor, which resulted in a decision awarding our client compensation of over USD 2 million. Successfully represented a company that was part of an electric power generation business group in an amicable settlement initiated by a Colombian electric power distributor, which resulted in a decision awarding our client compensation over USD 2 million.
– Successfully represented one of Colombia’s most important oil pipelines in a tutela action aimed at annulling an award rendered in international arbitration that had granted our client compensation of over USD 80 million from two of its Shippers. The claims in the Tutela action were dismissed in both instances.
– Successfully represented two of Colombia’s most important oil pipelines in a tutela action brought by representatives of indigenous communities to reopen a prior consultation process in the vicinity of their crude oil storage tanks. The claims in the Tutela action were dismissed in both instances.
– Successfully represented one of the most critical intermediaries in the technological applications market in an unfair competition action, the second instance of which, before the Colombian Courts, culminated in the total dismissal of the claims against him.