Practice Expertise
- Foreign Investment
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Taxes
Areas of Practice
- Foreign Investment
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Taxes
WSG Practice Industries
WSG Leadership
- Mining Group - Member
Profile
Luis joined LEGA (Formely known as Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque) in 1994. He is the head of the Life Sciences and Healthcare practice area, and he also plays a fundamental role in other practice areas, such as Contracts, Mergers and Acquisitions; International Trade, Investments, Banking, Finance, Competition, Foreign Exchange Control; Energy, Natural Resources, Utilities and Environmental Law; Real Estate; and Tax. Luis has significant experience in corporate matters, including complex mergers and development of legal audits for acquisition of corporations in Venezuela. He has advised numerous companies in the development of mining activities in important projects. Luis actively advises national and foreign companies in tax matters related to their activities. He has specialized in counseling corporations of the pharmaceutical sector. Before joining the Firm, Luis was an attorney in the Department of Investment Fund Privatization and in Badell, Grau & Associates.
Bar Admissions
Admitted 1990, Venezuela
Education
Advance Managment Program PAG, IESA. Caracas. Venezuela 2018
MBA William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. University of Rochester, USA, 1998.
LLM Financial Law. Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Venezuela, 1996.
Law Degree. Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Venezuela, 1990.
Areas of Practice
- Foreign Investment
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Taxes
Professional Career
Professional Associations
Professional Activities and Experience
Legal Counsel, Privatization Department of the Venezuelan Investment Fund (1992-1994); Attorney, Badell, Grau & Associates (1988-1991); Executive Secretary, Ministerial Commission for the Public Sector Decentralization, Secretary of the Board of Directors, PLC, S.A. Joined Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque in 1994.
- International Bar Association
Professional Activities and Experience
Legal Counsel, Privatization Department of the Venezuelan Investment Fund (1992-1994); Attorney, Badell, Grau & Associates (1988-1991); Executive Secretary, Ministerial Commission for the Public Sector Decentralization, Secretary of the Board of Directors, PLC, S.A. Joined Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque in 1994.
Articles
Sanitary Regulation of Social Responsibility before the Coronavirus
By Luis Lopez-Duran, Carlos García Soto |June 2020
Author of the Venezuelan chapter of the Getting the Deal Through Series: Mining. 2008-2009.
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