Sampedro&Torres Asesores Legales

What Sampedro&Torres Asesores Legales does

Sampedro & Torres Asesores Legales is a privately held Colombian law firm founded in 1993 and headquartered in Bogotá. The firm is built around two founding partners — Camilo A. Sampedro Arrubla and William F. Torres Tópaga — both of whom are master's-level criminal law specialists, tenured professors at top Colombian universities, and since December 2024, conjueces (alternate justices) of the Sala de Casación Penal of the Corte Suprema de Justicia.

The practice focuses on criminal law, disciplinary law, and criminal compliance, serving three primary client segments: individuals facing criminal charges affecting liberty, security, patrimony or integrity; public and private companies requiring criminal risk assessment and the proprietary MoPAI (Modelo de Prevención de Actividades Ilícitas) compliance framework; and public servants and lawyers in disciplinary proceedings before state entities. Service delivery is direct, partner-led, and quote-based, with no disclosed pricing or technology platform. The firm is recognized in the Leaders League ranking of top Colombian criminal law practices.

Commercially, Sampedro & Torres operates as a single-jurisdiction boutique with ~12 employees, generating professional-services revenue from litigation, advisory mandates and recurring compliance engagements; revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. The firm maintains a pro bono partnership with Fundación ProBono Colombia and has shown no external funding, no subsidiaries, no M&A activity, and no geographic expansion beyond Bogotá over its 30+ year history.

Name

Sampedro&Torres Asesores Legales

Legal name

Sampedro & Torres Asesores Legales

Website

https://sampedrotorres.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sampedro & Torres Asesores Legales is a Bogotá-based Colombian boutique law firm founded in 1993, specializing in criminal defense, disciplinary proceedings, and corporate criminal compliance (MoPAI). It serves individuals, public/private companies, and public servants, with practice centered on its two founding partners.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Bogotá

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Legal Advisory Services: Comprehensive legal counsel in criminal, disciplinary, and asset forfeiture matters, evaluating risks and proposing appropriate legal solutions.
2. Risk Assessment and Determination: Identification and evaluation of principal criminal risks for companies, proposing strategies to mitigate or address them.
3. Judicial Representation: Representation of clients in criminal and disciplinary proceedings before competent authorities.
4. Criminal Prevention Model (MoPAI): Illicit Activity Prevention Model for enterprises, providing compliance frameworks.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sampedro & Torres Asesores Legales is a Colombian criminal and disciplinary law firm that provides legal advisory and judicial representation to natural persons, public and private companies, and public servants. Services include criminal defense (Derecho Penal), disciplinary defense for public servants and lawyers, comprehensive legal advisory (Asesoría Legal Integral), criminal risk determination, judicial representation, and the proprietary MoPAI crime prevention model for enterprises.

Product overview

Sampedro & Torres Asesores Legales is a law firm with 30 years of experience specializing in criminal law and disciplinary law. The firm operates as a unified legal services practice offering criminal defense for individuals and corporations, disciplinary representation for public servants and lawyers, comprehensive legal advisory, risk assessment services, judicial representation, and a proprietary crime prevention model called MoPAI (Modelo de Prevención de Actividades Ilícitas). Services are provided to natural persons and public/private legal entities, with a personalized approach through the firm's partners.

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Products and services

• Derecho Penal (Criminal Law) Legal advisory and judicial representation for natural and legal persons in criminal cases, including crimes against the financial system, economic patrimony, public administration, public faith, personal rights, and general criminal matters. Target clients include individuals facing criminal charges and corporate defendants or victims.
• Derecho Disciplinario de Servidores Públicos (Disciplinary Law for Public Servants) Representation of public servants in disciplinary proceedings before state entities. Targets public servants facing administrative or disciplinary liability in Colombia.
• Derecho Disciplinario de Abogados (Disciplinary Law for Lawyers) Defense of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings before the Commission of Judicial Discipline. Targets lawyers subject to disciplinary actions in Colombia.
• Asesoría Legal Integral (Comprehensive Legal Advisory) Comprehensive legal advisory in criminal, disciplinary, and asset forfeiture (extinción de dominio) matters, evaluating risks and proposing appropriate legal solutions. Serves natural persons and legal entities requiring integrated legal counsel across multiple practice areas.
• Determinación de Riesgos (Risk Determination) Identification and evaluation of main criminal risks for companies, proposing strategies to mitigate or address them. Targets corporate clients needing to assess and preempt criminal exposure.
• Representación Judicial (Judicial Representation) Representation of clients in criminal and disciplinary proceedings before competent authorities. Covers both individual and corporate clients requiring litigation representation in Colombian courts and disciplinary bodies.
• MoPAI - Modelo de Prevención de Actividades Ilícitas (Criminal Prevention Model) Proprietary crime prevention model designed for all types of companies to identify and manage criminal risks including tax, corporate, and other legal compliance areas. Provides a structured compliance framework targeted at enterprises seeking to prevent criminal liability.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Fundación ProBono ColombiaminorOthersFirm participates in pro bono work through the Foundation, facilitating access to justice for people with limited economic resources and non-profit entities. Lawyers invest part of their time providing free, voluntary, and quality legal advice to those in need, always acting in favor of the public good. This forms part of the firm's corporate social responsibility commitments.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Brigard & Urrutia: One of Colombia's largest full-service law firms with an established criminal, white-collar defense, and compliance practice. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it competes for similar corporate and high-net-worth individual clients in complex criminal matters across Bogotá.
• Garrigues (Colombia): International Iberian-rooted firm with a Bogotá presence providing criminal, compliance, and white-collar defense services. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it competes for corporate criminal work in Colombia with a similar client base of multinational and large domestic companies.
• Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría: Leading Latin American law firm with offices in Colombia and other regional markets, providing criminal, compliance, and white-collar defense services. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it serves Colombian corporate clients on criminal risk prevention and representation, often as part of broader cross-border mandates.
• Posse Herrera Ruiz: Major Colombian full-service firm with a recognized criminal law and compliance practice. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it competes for high-stakes criminal defense and corporate criminal risk management engagements in Colombia's largest legal market.
• Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas: Major Colombian law firm integrated into the global Dentons network with an active criminal, compliance, and white-collar defense practice. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it competes for similar corporate criminal matters in Bogotá and across Colombia.
• Lloreda Camacho & Co: Established Colombian full-service firm with a recognized criminal and compliance practice serving corporate clients in Bogotá. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it competes for the same pool of corporate criminal defense and risk management mandates in Colombia.
• CMS (formerly CMS Rodríguez Azuero): International law firm with a long-standing Bogotá practice providing criminal, compliance, and white-collar defense services. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres in targeting Colombian corporate clients for criminal risk prevention and judicial representation across multiple sectors.
• Baker McKenzie (Colombia): Global law firm with a Bogotá office serving Colombian clients on criminal, compliance, and white-collar defense matters. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it targets similar corporate clients with cross-border and high-stakes criminal exposures.
• Holland & Knight (Colombia): International law firm with a Bogotá office handling corporate criminal, compliance, and investigations matters. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it competes for similar high-stakes criminal defense and corporate criminal risk mandates in Colombia.
• Cuatrecasas (Colombia): International Iberian-rooted firm with a Bogotá office handling corporate criminal, compliance, and white-collar defense. Comparable to Sampedro & Torres because it pursues similar corporate criminal mandates for Colombian and multinational clients in Bogotá.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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