Marcelo Buendía Vélez
Associate, Díaz Reus Abogados
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Marcelo Buendía Vélez is an associate attorney who is a bilingual lawyer and skilful in investigations, litigation, consultancy and negotiation. His experience includes white-collar, anti-money laundering, corruption, tax crime and fraud cases.
Mr Buendía worked at the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia for more than seven years, and during that time he performed as prosecutor in money laundering cases, tax offences and other white-collar crimes. He has experience in leading transnational investigations, especially in collaboration with the United States, the Republic of Peru and El Salvador.
He has also been a lecturer at the Pontifical Xavierian University and has trained prosecutors at the Attorney General’s Office in matters of criminal law and procedures. He is the co-editor of the Colombia editions of The Legal Industry Reviews. Mr Buendía has a master of laws degree (LLM) from University College London.
