Born in New York City and raised in Colombia, Santiago graduated from the Universidad de los Andes law faculty in Bogotá, Colombia and obtained a Masters in Law at Harvard. He remains active in alumni associations and fund raising.
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He joined Brown and Wood (now Sidley) and then our firm where he practiced for 14 years. He took an extended sabbatical from the law to lead a group of investors that acquired a controlling stake in Millonarios, a Colombian professional soccer team, and was a member of the board for 8 years and at one time, President. He also held the U.S. franchise for the AC Milan Junior Camps, broadcast World Cup Qualifiers via closed circuit PPV and founded a video sports analysis company.
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He returned to the law with R&S International Law Group in Miami, joined a client as in-house counsel for several years and headed a company that helped foreign families set up complex trust structures in the U.S. He returned to our firm in 2022.
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Santiago has experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including the acquisition and sales of companies, structuring family businesses and succession planning, and generally assisting companies as a virtual in-house counsel.
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He has a reforestation project in Tumaco, Colombia, where he has planted over 14,000 trees of which over 2,000 are of 10 rare and endangered species. With his family he founded Solidaridad Rural, a Colombian non-profit that helps the rural poor acquire lots in organized communities.
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Santiago is married, has three children under the age of 25, a dog and three cats. They live in Weston, Florida.
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Santiago is fluent in English and Spanish.