A story that began with a question.
 

In 1987, Edgar Suárez Ortiz founded his first law firm with a clear conviction: businesses need high-quality legal support. But over the years, working closely with owners, partners, and family businesses, a question emerged that would change everything: why did well-managed companies, with strong lawyers and solid financials, end up falling apart during generational transitions?
 

The answer was not found in law. It was found in people. In the dynamics between family and business. In the conversations that never took place. In the agreements no one dared to propose. This understanding led Edgar to train in Family Systems Therapy and to specialize in consulting for family businesses in Barcelona—not as an academic credential alone, but as the conviction that business conflict has human roots that law alone cannot resolve.
 

In 1994, he founded Consultoría Empresarial Suárez & Asociados with a different vision: a firm that would integrate the legal with the human dimension. By 1995, it had already become one of the pioneering firms in Colombia in consulting for family and closely held businesses, publishing alongside Dr. Humberto Serna Gómez the book Family Businesses: Strategies and Tools for Their Sustainability and Growth, the first of its kind to address the Latin American context.
 

Today, with more than 30 years of history and presence in Colombia and Ecuador, Suárez Consultoría is an interdisciplinary firm of lawyers, psychologists, economists, administrators, and accountants—because no single discipline can fully understand the problem on its own. Our Bogotá office has become a space where owners, partners, and business families make the decisions that shape the future of their companies.