Catalina Noreña is a partner at Posse Herrera Ruiz. Her practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Law, with over 10 years of experience advising local and multinational companies, strategic investors, and private capital funds on the structuring and execution of complex transactions. Catalina guides clients through acquisitions and divestments, strategic alliances and joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and corporate governance matters, across privately negotiated deals and competitive processes, frequently with cross‑border components and multijurisdictional coordination.
Catalina is involved throughout the entire deal cycle: planning and due diligence, design of efficient structures, drafting and negotiation of contracts (including share and asset purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, investment and joint venture agreements), corporate and regulatory approvals, integration oversight, and closing. She also leads post‑closing implementation, alignment of majority and minority shareholder interests, and the enhancement of compliance and governance practices. Her experience includes control and minority acquisitions, carve‑outs, venture capital and private equity transactions, and corporate reorganizations and restructurings.
She has participated in transactions across a wide range of industries—both regulated and non‑regulated—allowing her to anticipate relevant contractual and regulatory considerations and to design pragmatic solutions that balance execution speed with disciplined risk control. She works seamlessly with the firm’s tax, labor, foreign exchange, and competition teams to deliver a holistic, results‑oriented approach to domestic and international deals.
From 2018 to 2019, Catalina took part in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Visiting Lawyers Program in New York, strengthening her command of complex transactional processes and her comparative corporate law perspective in cross‑border matters. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Universidad de los Andes.
