
Our Team

Felipe Gärtner J
Founder | CEO
Felipe trained as both an economist and a lawyer at Universidad de los Andes, with graduate work in quantitative economics at NYU. His career has been built at the intersection of those disciplines: market entry and regulatory strategy, health economics for pharmaceutical and medical device clients, and cross-border investment structuring across Latin America and Europe. He co-founded Caribou, backed by the European Space Agency. Based in Munich, he works with German and Latin American companies on corporate structuring, M&A, vesting, economic and impact evaluations, and the legal and tax frameworks governing German entities. He leads the firm's European practice and is the first point of contact for clients approaching from Europe.

Alejandro Gärtner E
Partner
Over four decades, Alejandro has practiced at the point where Colombian commercial law meets its most demanding applications: fiduciary structures, investment vehicles, and transactions that required both legal precision and institutional credibility. He founded Gärtner Abogados & Consultores after serving as Vice President of Alianza Fiduciaria, one of Colombia's most significant fiduciary institutions. His work is not simply a record of cases. It is part of the architecture governing how Colombian fiduciary law functions today.

Santiago Gärtner J
Partner
Santiago is an industrial engineer with an MBA from INALDE Business School and a career defined by operational execution. At Crepes & Waffles, Colombia's most recognized restaurant group, he led international and national brand expansion across Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Spain. Before that, he worked in international client operations at Aposentos and held senior roles at Schlumberger. When Santiago advises on strategy or AI transformation, he draws on experience running the complexity, not just studying it.

Andrés Gärtner J
Partner
Andrés graduated from Universidad Javeriana and holds an LLM from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. That combination shapes how he approaches transactional work: with the precision Colombian commercial practice demands and the fluency European counterparts expect. At FIDUCOLDEX, he structured and negotiated contracts for entrepreneurs operating under Colombia's INNPULSA government trust framework. He knows how deals get built and where they break.