Lissa Parra is a principal associate in the Financial Law and Capital Markets practice.

She has extensive experience structuring IPOs, tender offers, democratizations, privatizations, and shares and bonds repurchases. She has advised the registration and issuance of securities such as shares, bonds, ETFs, and investment funds units at the principal market, alternative market, and Colombian Global Market.

She stands out for advising securities market intermediaries, issuers, and other market participants in the development of their activities or operations.

Likewise, she has actively participated in the development of the capital market regulatory agenda, working in coordination with regulators and authorities, and leading the regulatory agenda of financial infrastructures.

She actively participated in the integration of the Colombian Stock Exchange with the Centralized Securities Depository of Colombia and the regional integration of the stock markets, supporting the MILA initiatives and the integration of the stock exchanges of Colombia, Peru, and Chile.

She has structured the legal front of the first Colombian securities crowdfunding and other innovation initiatives carried out by intermediaries.

She was the Legal Director of the Stock Exchange of Colombia S.A., General Secretary of Derivex S.A., and Regulation Coordinator of the Securities Market Self-Regulator. Likewise, she was part of the regulatory team of the International Institute of Finance in Washington D.C. and has been a professor at the Universidad de Los Andes and the Universidad Militar.

Lawyer from Los Andes University, with a specialization in Financial Regulation from Los Andes University, a Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University. 

Los Andes University. Chapter I - Behaviors that affect price formation in the stockmarket, Régimen del Mercado de Valores - Tomo IV.