Holds a law degree from Universidad Javeriana and an LL.M. from the University of Miami. Mr. Reyes has gathered ample experience in advising international clients in their dealings in Colombia and the Andean region. He has been summoned as an expert witness before US Federal Courts on multiple occasions in New York and Florida, where his depositions have concerned cross-border, highly complex corporate matters. He has negotiated and seen through multiple deals both in Colombia and abroad. Mr. Reyes has also participated as an advisor in several of the most significant transactions undertaken in the country, including the alliance entered into between Colombia’s two largest airlines (Aces and Avianca), Avianca’s reorganization in bankruptcy proceeding under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code (New York), Cementos Argos’ internal restructuring, Bavaria’s (Colombia’s largest non-governmental company) sale to SabMiller via transactions undertaken in Colombia and Delaware and Ecopetrol’s (Colombia’s petroleum company) multiple dealing locally and abroad.

Mr. Reyes’ experience in the public sector also spans over a period of more than twenty years. In 1995, he was appointed head of the Superintendence of Corporations, a governmental agency in charge of control and supervision of corporations and other business associations in Colombia. His experience in the area of business law allowed him to participate as the coordinator of the Ministry of Justice for the reform of the Colombian Commercial Code, which was eventually enacted on December 1995. Mr. Reyes also conceived and drafted the statute on Sociedades por Acciones Simplificadas (Simplified Stock Corporations), enacted on 2008.

Mr. Reyes has also been Visiting Professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University, Stetson College of Law, Universidad Católica Argentina, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Agostinho Neto University in Luanda. Professor of Law Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Active participant in the 1995 comprehensive reform to the Colombian laws of Corporations and Bankruptcy. Author of the books SAS – La Sociedad por Acciones SImplificada, Disolucion y Liquidación de Sociedades ("Dissolution and Liquidation of Corporations") (three editions: 1992, 1994 and 1998), Sociedades Comerciales en Estados Unidos, Introducción Comparativa ("Business Associations in the U.S. a Comparative Approach") (two editions: 1995, and 2005), "Reforma al Régimen de Sociedades y Concursos” (“Reforms to the Law of Corporations and Bankruptcy") (two editions: 1996 and 1999), Transformación, fusión y escisión de sociedades (“Change of form, Mergers and Corporate Divisions”) (2000), Arbitraje Comercial en los Estados Unidos (Corporate Arbitration in the U.S.) (Coauthored with Professor Alan R. Palmiter), and a two-volume treatise on Corporate Law (Derecho Societario, 2002). Arbitrator listed by the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Colombian delegation to UNCITRAL (Insolvency Group, New York, 2002). Newspaper editorialist for “La República” in Bogotá.

Lecturer in various international conferences, including the following: (1) Instituto de Prácticas Financieras. Quito, Ecuador. January, 1996: Fusiones y Adquisiciones (mergers and acquisitions); (2) Colegio Nacional de Abogados. Ciudad de Panamá. March, 1996: Derecho Societario Comparado (Comparative Corporation Law); (3) Virginia Bar Association. Williamsburg. Virginia. U.S.A. Strategic Issues in Cross Border Transactions. May, 1998; (4) Organization of American States. Washington D.C., Responding to the Legal Obstacles to Electronic Commerce in Latin America. August, 1999; (5) American Bar Association. Spring Meeting., International Section, Facing the Challenges of globalization, Washington, D.C., April, 2000; (6) Stetson University, College of Law, Saint Petersburg, Florida, Doing business in Latin America, October, 2000; (7) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, March, 2003, Brown bag presentation on Comparative Corporation Law;  (8) Florida International University, Miami, Fl, April, 2003, Brown bag presentation on Liability of Corporate Groups, and(9) Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2003, Sociedades Comerciales en Estados Unidos; (10) Université de Lyon Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, Latin American Business Law, (June 2004), (11) Washington University, Saint Louis, Mo, (May, 2005) Teaching Materials on Latin American Law; (12) Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, US Corporation Law (September, 2005).