Marcela is a seasoned commercial, corporate and technology lawyer. For over a decade, she has advised multinational companies from several sectors, including technology, media, advertising, communications, pharmaceuticals, mining, and oil, among other in connection with complex contracts, negotiations, restructuring, government procurement and regulatory advice.

Marcela is also a devoted short story and poetry writer and is aiming to publish soon. She is also a competitive long-distance runner and an amateur boxer.

Lawtæm 2023 – Present
Mexico City, Mexico
Jr. Partner

Baker McKenzie 2015 – 2023
Bogota, Colombia
Associate

• General business, commercial and corporate advisory to over 50 multinational companies doing business in Latin America.
• Coordinate major liquidation process for a global social media company in Latin America and engagement with stakeholders therein.
• Responsible for mergers, acquisitions, demergers, transfer of assets and transfer of shares of companies based in Colombia with stakeholders based in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Lead a great-complexity demerger of a large company from the pharmaceutical industry with stakeholders located in Europe.
• Reviewed and implemented corporate structures in Colombia according to the foreign structures of shareholders abroad in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Lead the registration of the bidders registers in Colombia and managed to register the experience of a large Brazilian company dedicated to infrastructure as a result of a demerger abroad.
• Coordinated corporate multijurisdictional projects, intervention in due diligence, corporate secretarial services, coordination and implementation of mergers and acquisitions, financial statements approval, and revision of annual corporate obligations.
• Lead all Pro Bono matters within Baker & McKenzie as part of the Pro Bono Committee in Bogotá and coordination with large Pro Bono entities such as TrustLaw and the Pro Bono Foundation. The Firm was nominated by TrustLaw as International Firm of the Year in 2022.
• Supported the management of multiple projects among various jurisdictions in Latin America and the United States.
• Created effective and efficient plans for the execution of ongoing large and multijurisdictional projects in Latin America and the United States. Participated in the coordination of the implementation of a great- demerger a company based in the US from the pharmaceutical industry with stakeholders located across the world.
• Coordinated using legal technology programs for the implementation projects (Legatics, eBrevia, Share Point) to perform a more efficient work, useful for the revision of a large number of contracts in a multijurisdictional transaction.

Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo 2013 – 2015

Bogota, Colombia

Jr. Associate

• Advised clients on the incorporation, corporate maintenance and liquidation of companies, and branches of foreign companies based in Colombia. Managed more than 30 companies with stakeholders located in Europe.
• Coordinated the registration of companies and branches of foreign companies with the Bidders Registry (Registro Único de Proponentes – RUP). Achieved to convince Colombia Compra Eficiente for companies with a financial cut-off date different as of December 31, to present financial statements regardless of the issuance date.

Master of Law (LLM) 2019

Queen Mary University of London, London UK

• Elected as student representative of the LLM class
• Full scholarship recipient for postgraduate studies

Postgraduate Specialization in Commercial Law 2015

Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Admitted in 2013

Juris Doctor 2013

Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Admitted in 2013