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Caracas Hogan & Hartson Centro San Ignacio, Torre Copérnico, Ofi. TO-P3-02 Av. Blandín, La Castellana 1060 Caracas Venezuela Phone: +58.212.266.97.72 Fax: +58.212.266.97.32

Located in a vibrant city that has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years, Hogan & Hartson’s Caracas office is both a strategic and practical platform for clients conducting business in Venezuela or looking to enter the Latin American marketplace.

Lawyers in our Caracas office work closely with firm colleagues in Miami, New York, and Washington, D.C. to provide a variety of legal services to international and Latin American clients. They are capable of handling all aspects of major transactions in Spanish, English, and Italian, and conduct due diligence investigations, draft project and financing documents, negotiate contracts, arbitrate, and litigate in all three languages. Additionally, the lawyers in our Caracas office understand and are comfortable working in civil law and common law jurisdictions.

Lawyers in our Caracas office are renowned for their antitrust and corporate work with multinational companies and public private partnerships (PPPs) in the oil, gas, utility, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries. They are skilled at representing major companies in investigations before the Venezuelan Antitrust Agency, analyzing the need for notifying mergers in Venezuela and other Latin American countries, and advising clients on general antitrust matters.

In the energy industry, our Caracas lawyers are adept at advising major companies, oil joint ventures, and petrochemical joint ventures in regulatory energy matters, particularly regarding hydrocarbons and gaseous hydrocarbons laws, administrative law, civil and commercial law, tax law, commercial arbitration law, and foreign investments protection law.


Former Leadership Positions

• Executive Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel of Cantv, the largest Venezuelan telecommunications company
• General Counsel of Lagoven S.A:, an operator company of Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.
• General Legal Counsel of Maraven S.A., Petróleos de Venezuela, the S.A. company that resulted from the nationalization of Shell

Leadership Positions

• Chair of the Antitrust Section and former Chair of the Latin American Forum, International Bar Association.