-
Bogota
+57 601 326 69 99
Juan Mateo is a lawyer specializing in real estate and urban planning law, with experience in the structuring and review of real estate contracts, the preparation of real estate and urban planning legal opinions, the issuance of zoning and land-use concepts and high-level technical memoranda, and the conduct of real estate, urban planning, and environmental due diligence for infrastructure and development projects. He advises domestic and international clients across the commercial, infrastructure, and financial sectors, and has taken part in road infrastructure, mass transit, and renewable energy projects in Colombia. A specialist in urban planning law with graduate training in urban and regional planning, he combines legal analysis with a solid technical command of land-use regulation and urban development. He is a native speaker of Spanish and English and has C1-level proficiency in Portuguese.
Experience
He joined the firm in 2024 as a junior associate in the Real Estate and Urban Planning practice in the Bogotá office. He specializes in real estate and urban planning law and advises domestic and international clients across the commercial, infrastructure, and financial sectors on the structuring, negotiation, and review of real estate contracts, the preparation of real estate and urban planning legal opinions, the issuance of zoning and land-use concepts and high-level technical memoranda, and the conduct of real estate, urban planning, and environmental due diligence. He has taken part in road infrastructure, mass transit, and renewable energy projects in Colombia.
He is a native speaker of Spanish and English and has C1-level proficiency in Portuguese.
Academic background
He holds a law degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with a concentration in Business Law and International Commercial Law, and a specialization in Urban Planning Law from the same institution. He is completing a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning at its School of Architecture, an interdisciplinary program that lends his practice a solid technical command of land-use regulation and urban development.