Jorge Andres Pinilla Jaramillo

Experience

Pinilla & Pinilla Law Firm

Bogotá, Colombia
Senior Associate Attorney

- Litigation in civil, commercial, administrative, and criminal law matters, focused on victims’
  representation.

- Draft, edit, review, and negotiation of corporate documents in the US, including bylaws, operation agreements, shareholder agreements, NDAs, and contracts of Corporate, Privacy, Consumer Protection, IP and Labor nature.

- Formulation & Implementation of privacy policies for multiple technology corporations based in the USA and Colombia including Terms and Conditions, Terms of Service, and Data Protection.

- Systematized and organized databases of Colombian companies that stored sensitive personal data from customers and users in order to comply with data protection law.

- Advisor in commercial law, labor law, business law, data protection law, IP, stages of financing, sustainable growth, among other topics in order to empower businesses and Startups.

- Formation and incorporation of corporations in Delaware, including registration with the IRS.

- Structure business models, analyze legal implications and compliance issues in accordance with the business proposal and industry
  requirements.
- Contributor as expert to One Trust Data Guidance, a Privacy and Security regulatory research software based in the United Kingdom (https://www.dataguidance.com/experts-directory/Jorge_Pinilla).

INTERESTS

Member of Alt+Co, Colombian Association of Legal Tech. Active member of the Access to Justice, ODR and Privacy Committees.

Member of Berkeley Global Society.

Member of Re-Imaginemos, interdisciplinary project that aims for standing out inequality issues in Colombia.

BAR ADMISSIONS

Republic of Colombia, South America;
New York, United States (sitting for July 2023 Bar Exam)

LANGUAGES

Spanish (native speaker)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Chinese(intermediate)

Education

Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Specialization in Legal Informatics and New
Technologies, February 2021- June 2022.

Relevant Coursework: Fintech; Data
protection Law; Smart Contracts; E-
Commerce; Blockchain.

Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Bogotá, Colombia

Specialization in Mediation and Negotiation,
2020-2021.

2021 Relevance: Ability to act as a mediator,
acquiring legal, ethical, communication and
negotiation skills for peaceful, agile, efficient
and effective resolution of conflicts.

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, California

Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Certificate of
Specialization in Business Law; Recognition
for Public Service, May 2017

Relevant Coursework: Business Associations;
Antitrust; Regulation of Capital Markets and
Financial Institutions.

Activities: Attended business workshops to
assess entrepreneurs on business modeling,
contracts reviewing, and other compliance
requirements (UC Merced Venture Lab);
Drafted testimonies for petitioners in
immigration clinics.

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Degree in Law, December 2013.

Activities: Research group on civil law in order
to protect the property rights of the Community
of Las Pavas in Sur de Bolivar, Colombia;
publicly elected as representative of the
Liberal Party Youth Assembly for the District of
Bogota.

Study Abroad: 对外经济贸易大学 – The Beijing
Center of Chinese Studies, Scholarship
student from Loyola University of Chicago
(Beijing, China; Fall Semester 2011)

Skills

Mediation

Team Work

Public Speaker

Empathy

Identifying and Solving Problems