Quienes Somos | Arce Rojas Consultores

More than 20 years of

experience

David Arce Rojas

President

ArceRojas Consultants was born on October 7, 1997, due to the initiative of David Arce Rojas, a lawyer with studies on petroleum legislation and a wide professional experience in mining, energetic and agro-industrial infrastructure projects. Today, as president of the company, he noticed that the market was missing a firm that helped enterprises establish themselves in the country and develop specific projects, with defined terms and resources. He started working with Jairo Javier Valenzuela, who is also a lawyer with a wide experience in handling relations and negotiations with the oil enterprises community. Together, they opened the firm with two employees, achieving their first contract with ECOPETROL, which consisted in the management of the real estate of the Boyacá and Santander gas pipelines. Currently, the company has an employment policy that allows it to maintain an important number of permanent positions and has helped it hire up to 80 temporary workers for its projects. Its list of clients includes firms with national and international relevance. Its billing has being increasing in the last few years, which allows it to have a hiring capacity of over 40.000 current legal minimum wages. This number allows it to have a wide participation in public and private tender offers.

Integrated Management Policy

Arce Rojas Consultores & Cía. S.A.’s purpose is to give Surface Rights acquisition and Real Estate Law, Legal Advisory, and Environmental and Social Management services to companies mostly from the energy and mining, infrastructure and biofuel sectors. Our goal is to reach high quality levels that allow us to increase the satisfaction of our clients by fulfilling their requirements, looking after the health and safety of our partners and other interested parts, always preserving the environment and being role model corporate citizens.

NO Alcohol, NO Drugs, NO Smoking Policy

Arce Rojas Consultores acknowledges that the abuse alcohol, smoking or any psychoactive substance negatively affects the employees’ performance in regard to efficiency and productivity, as well as it compromises safety conditions of fellow employees and the company as a whole. Use, possession, distribution or sale, inside the company or along working hours of alcohol; controlled, non-prescript medicine; illegal substances; as well as abuse of free-sale medicine; are strictly forbidden. ArceRojas Consultores may carry out unexpected inspections to find drugs and alcohol and will request officials to undergo medical examinations, laboratory tests or else when suspicions be present. If an employee were to be found positive in the use of aforementioned substances, disciplinary measures will be taken and the contract will be terminated, if necessary.

Road Traffic Safety Policy

Arce Rojas Consultores & Cía. S.A. is aware of the high traffic accident risk arouse during our operations due to people transportation and road use itself, particularly by the use of own and hired light vehicles. We also acknowledge that people are the company’s most valuable resource and that their safety is all the staff’s responsibility, directly and indirectly, according to their functions inside the company and on the road, as pedestrians, passengers and drivers. As a result, ArceRojas Consultores & Cía. S.A. considers life the supreme value and commits itself to the prevention of any traffic accidents, the fulfillment of every applicable requirement and the constant improvement of the System of Road Traffic Safety Management.

Demeanor and Ethics in Business Policy

The highest standards of integrity and Ethics are essential in business and activities carried out by ArceRojas Consultores. It is ArceRojas Consultores’ policy that every business be carried out in accordance to current law and the different agreements made with clients. A conflict of interest is evident when a person finds themselves in a situation or position In which they can benefit at the expense of ArceRojas Consultores & Cía. S.A. or any of its partners. In similar fashion, a conflict of interest may be present during legal or ethical situations. In some cases, a potential conflict of interest may be solved by simply notifying ArceRojas Consultores & Cía. S.A. People will not be allowed to disclose any confidential information acquired, generated or examined by the company without its very authorization.

Human Rights Policy

To ArceRojas Consultores, respect for fundamental rights and liberties of all people is an essential principle that rules over all of its activities. This principle is reflected in all of ArceRojas’ involvements, especially, but not limited to safety, occupational health, environment, work relationships and relationships with community. ArceRojas Consultores employees’ treatment toward their peers, contractors and community members in the work field will be based on the obligatory respect for all humans’ dignity with discrimination regarding race, gender, age, religion, social or economic situation, political or ideological inclinations or any other physical or personality characteristic. Furthermore, they will always be polite and friendly.

Global Deal

ArceRojas Consultants ArceRojas has committed itself to the Global Compact’s ten principles, which are based on Universal Declarations and Conventions, applied in four specific areas:

Human Rights

Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and

Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

Labour:

Principle 3: Business should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.

Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;

Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and

Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation. Environment:

Environment:

Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;

Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and

Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

Anti-Corruption:

Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.

We all have the right to use the land. For this reason, in Arce Rojas we integrate knowledge, values and technology, to understand the territory and allow its use in a legal, responsible and sustainable manner.

Our mission is to know our territory and land rights, to transform dreams into reality!