Mr. Andrés García is a Partner at DGA Group based in Washington, D.C. His practice is focused on dispute communications and issue response for management teams, focusing on cross-border communications and engagement programs. 

While most matters that he works on remain strictly confidential, Mr. Garcia’s public-facing work is extensive. He provided communications and stakeholder management support to legal counsel for a $4 billion commercial arbitration case between South American and Southeast Asia business conglomerates. He directed a successful dispute communications program for Canadian investors undergoing an investment dispute settlement arbitration against the Venezuelan dictatorship and its US-domiciled assets. He coordinated the crisis response program for one of South America’s largest banking institutions after it suffered a malicious ransomware attack.

Mr. Garcia also managed the restructuring communications for Latin America’s largest airline during its pandemic-induced Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in six jurisdictions. He served as media liaison in Washington, D.C. for the Government of Mexico during the 2017-2018 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation, simultaneously engaging with American and Mexican stakeholders. He led synchronized communications campaigns in Washington, D.C., Bogota, Mexico City and Brasilia on behalf of a coalition of life sciences corporations addressing distressed regulatory and intellectual property environments. He advised the Dominican Republic government in its management of emerging migratory issues caused by Haiti’s humanitarian and security crisis. Finally, he counseled an international private equity agribusiness during an internal whistleblower incident with regulatory and jurisdictional workstreams in Chile, the U.S. and Norway.

Before DGA, Mr. Garcia worked for a global management consulting firm. Prior to that he was a strategic advisor for political leaders in Colombia.