Nicolás Otero Álvarez

Lawyer from Universidad Externado de Colombia, specialist in Administrative Litigation Law, and candidate for the Master's degree in Administrative Law at the same university, where he teaches administrative litigation procedure at the graduate level.

His practice focuses on the judicial defense of public entities, of private parties performing administrative functions, and of private clients, among them mining and energy businesses, government contractors, and construction companies. He has acted as counsel in court for a capital district and has defended urban curators (curadores urbanos) before the administrative and constitutional courts and before the disciplinary and fiscal oversight bodies.

He served as Legal Director for Regulatory Monitoring and Territorial Defense at the Colombian Association of Capital Cities (Asociación Colombiana de Ciudades Capitales), where he led strategic litigation before the high courts on matters of territorial autonomy, with interventions in the constitutional review of the emergency decrees and of the constitutional reform on the allocation of powers. Before that, he was an associate in the real estate and urban planning practice of Gómez-Pinzón Abogados (now Pérez-Llorca).

Education and teaching

• Lawyer · Universidad Externado de Colombia
• Specialist in Administrative Litigation Law
• Master's in Administrative Law · coursework completed
• Graduate lecturer · Universidad Externado de Colombia
• Spanish · English C1 · French B2 · German B2

Publications

Analysis published in the specialized legal press.

• The liability letter under Decree 1166, analysis in Ámbito Jurídico