David Ricardo Sotomonte Mujica

Our Firm provides legal services to companies and individuals around the country, operating under the highest professional standards. Our services cover all legal matters and include representation in all proceedings and negotiations related to Commercial Law (national and international), Insolvency Law, Banking Law, and Capital Markets regulation. We provide services to a diverse group of clients, including financial institutions and national and multinational corporations.

Our lawyers are reliable professionals with vast experience, not only in their practice areas but also as academics. We are always keen to provide the best legal services and efficient legal solutions to our clients. We work hand in hand with other law firms (national and international) and with professionals on areas related to our practice (accounting, finance) to provide the best possible services to our clients.No matter the extent of our client’s needs, our experience and commitment is a guarantee to their satisfaction.

Practice areas

Business & Commercial law

Banking & Finance

Insolvency / Bankruptcy

Litigation

Administrative & Public law

David graduated from Law at the Externado de Colombia University, where he also specialized in Business Law. He earned a Master in Legal Practice (MAJ) at the Instituto de Empresa de Madrid (Spain) and an LLM in Commercial Law at the Glasgow and Strathclyde University (UK).

David is an Undergraduate and Postgraduate Professor of Commercial and Insolvency Law at the Externado de Colombia University. He is also the head of E-Mercatoria, the journal of the Department of Commercial Law of the same university. He has also served as Ancillary Justice at the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia and Coordinator of the Insolvency Group at the Superintendence of Companies.

For more than twenty years, David has been widely recognized as one of the leading bankruptcy attorneys in Colombia. He has played a pivotal role in the largest and most complex restructurings in Colombia and this significant track record has made him a go-to lawyer for clients involved in the toughest and most challenging of bankruptcies.

A respected authority on restructuring, David is a prolific academic and author on related topics,such as cross-border insolvency, liquidation plans, and alternative dispute resolution procedures.

Leading lawyers and practitioners seek his opinion regarding restructuring issues of national interest and their impact on the rehabilitation strategies of companies in distress.