Team

Our team

One human lawyer at the front, specialised AI assistants behind.

Paula Salgado

Socia cofundadora · Sucursal Colombia

Paula Salgado

Co-founding partner · Colombia branch

Colombian attorney with three years of private and commercial law practice in Bogotá. Co-founder and head of the Colombian branch of Lehder — the worldwide non-profit legal consultancy based in Switzerland. Personally leads every matter at the firm and signs every legal opinion. Works in Spanish and English; passive German. Backed by the tech team in Switzerland and Germany that maintains the AI and translation systems.

ESENDE pasivoBogotá3 años de práctica

Zürich

Switzerland branch

Switzerland is our neutral country, at the centre of international regulation. From Zürich we advise on Turkish–German business law under the EU GDPR framework. Three lawyers with Turkish and German training from the Lehder team work alongside Paula on every Turkey–Germany–Colombia matter.

Ferhat Salgut

TR / DE

Partner · IT law & migration

Digital Trust, Platform Law and GDPR. LLM in Transnational Law at the University of Bremen; Istanbul University Law School. Senior Digital Trust & Safety Analyst at TELUS Digital (Germany). Turkish, Kurdish, English (C1), German (B1).

Büşra Arıkan

TR / DE

Partner · GDPR, civil law & compliance

Legal and compliance counsel at KI|E|RO Swiss, focused on GDPR, corporate governance and data protection. 4+ years in-house at ENERGO-PRO (energy, contracts, risk). Certified internal auditor ISO 9001/14001/45001. Member of Young ISTAC.

Imair Yilmaz

TR / DE

Partner · IT law DE/US

Advises on IT law, data protection and international business law. Supports companies with EU and international compliance and cross-border legal questions.

Kurt Lehder

TR / DE

Partner · AI & transformation

Expert in artificial intelligence and law-firm digital transformation. Designs and maintains the AI and translation systems that power Lehder's international practice.

AI team assistants

AI team assistants

Each assistant is trained in a specific domain of Colombian law and supervised by Paula. They do research, review and first-draft work in minutes — they do not sign opinions.

Sofía

Sofía

IA

Contract review

Civil & commercial contracts · Abusive clauses · Hidden risks · ES/EN/DE

Andrés

Andrés

IA

Enforcement & collections

Viability scoring · Collateral analysis · Procedural strategy · Law 1676

Hans

Hans

IA

Legal translation DE/EN

Bilingual delivery of legal opinions · Native review in Karlsruhe and Thun · Proprietary Lehder glossary

Camila

Camila

IA

Compliance & data protection

Law 1581 · Law 1778 anti-bribery · SIC reporting · Internal audits

Markus

Markus

IA

Cross-border estates

CO ↔ DE/CH coordination · Apostille · Recognition of foreign wills

Lucía

Lucía

IA

Company formation

SAS · Branches · Joint-ventures · Bank account opening · Regulatory diligence