EXTERNAL ADVISORS

Carlos Silva Burbano
Attorney from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, with two majors from the Universidad del Rosario in labor law & social security, and in Commercial law, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Universidad de los Andes, and an LLM “Master of Laws in International Transactions” from the Centro de Estudios Garrigues in association with the Universidad de Nebrija in Spain.
He worked as an Assistant Magistrate to the labor chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, since the last trimester of 2021, and until the end of January 2023, and was the director for over five years, of the labor and migration law departments in Garrigues Colombia.
He has is well experienced in labor advising to companies, including the implementation of collective agreements and conventions, labor litigation, and performance of legal audits in labor, pension, and parafiscal matters, representation before the Labor Ministry in administrative procedures, among others.
He has been invited since 2012 by the newspaper Diario La República to write various articles in the Legal Matters section, and was recognized by the Chamber & Partners publication of the year 2020 as an “Associates to watch” https://chambers.com/guide/latin-america, and the publication Who’s Who Legal (WWL) of 2017,mentioned him as an expert to watch for in Colombia, in labor advising matters.
csilva@col-law.com
(+57) 1 217 08 00
Cr 7 # 74 -21, Flat 6
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia

Iván Vargas Nivia
Lawyer and Specialist in Financial Law from Rosario University. Between 1997 and 2008 he was linked to Banco de Bogotá S.A where he held the positions of Head of the Tax Department, Legal Adviser to the Financial Vice Presidency and Manager of the Autonomous Equity Unit. He was Executive Director of Taxes at Ernst & Young in Colombia where he led the tax advisory practice for the financial sector.
He has been a lecturer on the Tax Law course at the Sabana University, a professor at the Faculty of Jurisprudence at Rosario University and on the master’s program in tax law at the Externado University.
He was President of the Legal Tax Committee of Asobancaria from 2005 to 2008.
ivargas@col-law.com
(+57) 1 217 08 00
Cr 7 # 74 -21, Flat 6
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia