DE GUZMAN
LAW | ADVISORY
Cross-border counsel for the Americas.
Where business, regulation, reputation, and policy converge.
Bogotá | Miami | New York
Cross-border counsel for the Americas.
Where business, regulation, reputation, and policy converge.
The bridge between the United States and Latin America, built to support growth in both directions.
American capital entering Latin America and Latin American enterprise building in the United States cross the same bridge.
DE GUZMAN is built to support investment, trade, and innovation, with U.S. legal credentials and native fluency in legal systems, regulatory frameworks, business cultures, media landscapes, and policy currents across the hemisphere.
We combine the credential and privilege of U.S. Big Law, the business judgment and pragmatism of the C-suite, and the on-the-ground orchestration and access of strategic advisory.
Senior advisory on crisis management, complex turnarounds, and contested transactions. Proven judgment in high-stakes matters and under public scrutiny.
Alternative dispute resolution and pre-litigation strategy across commercial disputes, contract renegotiations, and multi-party stakeholder and community engagement. Tried in boardrooms, courtrooms, reorganizations, strikes, and a national peace process.
Regulatory strategy, compliance architecture, and remedial measures for highly regulated and emerging sectors. From AML/CFT programs and internal investigations to business licensing and privacy, we enable compliant innovation and keep operations bankable.
Strategic counsel for established LatAm corporates and institutions entering U.S. markets and for U.S. companies and capital entering Latin America. Cross-border M&A, corporate financing, joint ventures, and multi-jurisdictional market entry.
Full-lifecycle counsel to founders and funds, from formation through private placements, financing rounds, and growth-stage preparation. Operator depth of a former General Counsel who took a startup from Seed to pre-IPO.
Florida-licensed estate planning, cross-border wealth structuring, family office governance, and post-liquidity planning. For families and high-net-worth individuals seeking to protect their U.S. and LatAm assets across generations.
We’ve been in the room and on the ground for some of the most transformative matters of the last two decades, across the sectors that will define the region’s future.
The IEA projects data centres will consume more electricity than Japan does today by 2030. LatAm’s resources are pivotal to advancing AI, fueling economic growth, and meeting global energy demand. Reactivation is imminent.
Matters include a USD 80 million notes offering for Gran Colombia Gold (TSX), the amendment of a USD 350 million credit facility and stakeholder engagement for Pacific Rubiales (TSX), and public policy strategy for GASNOVA, Colombia’s LPG trade association.
The IDB estimates LatAm’s infrastructure needs at USD 2.2 trillion this decade. Building at scale will run through strategic acquisitions, concession contracts, project finance, and community engagement to deliver durable public goods.
Engagements include country positioning and stakeholder work for A.P. Møller-Maersk, country entry for APM Terminals through M&A to operate terminals in Cartagena and Buenaventura, and concession contract extensions in Buenaventura and Santa Marta.
Just as the smartphone sparked LatAm’s USD 600 billion mobile economy, AI adoption will reshape the economy. The connectivity gap tied to this shift is priced at USD 300 billion by the IDB. Consolidation and disruption are on the doorstep.
Engagements include a three-year M&A process to create Millicom’s integrated USD 2 billion fixed-mobile provider, the launch of Internet.org with Facebook, and stakeholder strategy on the contested USD 1 billion sale of ETB by the District of Bogotá.
LatAm talent has gone global, with football tournaments and transfers breaking records, artists topping charts, and producers making streaming hits. The world has taken notice, and the deals turn on cross-border architecture of rights and governance.
Experience includes strategic advisory to CONMEBOL on post-crisis institutional and tournament reform and repositioning, enabling the tender of assets for USD 1.4 billion, counsel to MLS on IP and licensing, and the structuring of tax credit investments in film.
As people live longer and healthier lives, nutraceuticals will surpass USD 1 trillion in sales within a decade. LatAm holds 40% of the world’s biodiversity, a pipeline of new active ingredients for cosmetics, food, supplements, and drugs, all highly regulated.
Experience includes serving as General Counsel of NatuEra, a biopharmaceutical joint venture with The Cronos Group (NASDAQ: CRON), obtaining U.S. GMP certification for a dietary supplements facility, and leading policy reforms that opened novel food export categories valued at over USD 10 billion.
LatAm finance is digitizing end to end, from neobanking and digital payments to crypto and fractional investing. With cross-border flows above USD 170 billion a year moving to new rails, traditional compliance architecture is being tested.
Recent engagements include regulatory and compliance work for an offshore digital-asset fund, and the multi-jurisdictional structuring of cross-border proptech payment ventures across the U.S., Europe, and LatAm.
U.S.-licensed attorney with seventeen years advising leading clients across highly regulated industries and on landmark ventures, transactions, and disputes across the Americas. Writes and comments regularly on U.S. law, business, technology, and policy for Latin American media.
Previously co-founded, built, and exited 2WAY (2011–2021), a corporate and public affairs firm where he served as Managing Partner throughout. Scaled the firm through a decade of senior engagements before negotiating and closing the firm’s M&A exit.
From 2019 to 2025, served concurrently as Chief Legal, Regulatory, and Corporate Affairs Officer of NatuEra, a venture-backed regulated-product company (joint venture with The Cronos Group, NASDAQ: CRON; strategic investment of Altria, NYSE: MO).
Earlier career includes Big Law training at Proskauer Rose LLP (New York), advising PepsiCo, Grifols, ATP Tour, Major League Soccer, and other institutional clients on cross-border M&A, capital markets, complex litigation, and regulatory matters.
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· Caracol Radio · June 2026