ArnStein Legal

ArnStein Legal is a multidisciplinary law firm headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, with partners bringing over two decades of experience in providing exceptional legal services to a diverse clientele, including local and multinational corporations. ArnStein's team is renowned for its proactive approach, adeptly anticipating, identifying, and resolving client needs with precision and strategic insight. The firm delivers tailored legal solutions across a wide range of industries, effectively combining deep regulatory knowledge with astute business acumen.

Firm Values

ArnStein's core values form the bedrock of its practice and client relationships:

• Integrity and Professionalism: Upholding the highest ethical standards, ArnStein delivers services with rigor, transparency, and respect.
• Client-Focused Service: Prioritizing clients' needs, the firm offers responsive, personalized, and strategic legal solutions.
• Excellence and Accuracy: Committed to delivering accurate, high-quality work, supported by profound legal knowledge and comprehensive attention to detail.
• Collaboration and Innovation: Fostering a multidisciplinary and forward-thinking environment, encouraging teamwork and creative problem-solving.
• Long-Term Partnerships: Building strong and enduring relationships with clients, supporting them through local challenges and complex cross-border matters.

The firm’s leadership comprises highly ranked professionals recognized in key areas such as Banking & Finance, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Public Law, Tax Consulting and Litigation, and Labour and Employment, among other specialized legal services.

Recognitions and Chambers Rankings

ArnStein Legal and its attorneys have been consistently recognized by Chambers Latin America for their outstanding performance across multiple practice areas.

In the 2025 edition of Chambers Latin America, the firm achieved rankings in several key categories and has four lawyers individually recognized:

• Firm Rankings:
  • Corporate / M&A
  • Banking & Finance
  • Public Law
  • Tax
• Individual Rankings:
  • Jorge A. Jraige Roa - Tax, Band 1
  • Mariana J. Roso Quintana - Labour & Employment, Band 2
  • Martha E. Cohen Arnstein - Public Law, Band 3
  • Alfonso R. Porras Machado - Banking & Finance, Band 3

Departments

• Tax Consulting and Litigation: ArnStein’s Tax Consulting and Litigation Department provides comprehensive and all-encompassing tax advice to local and multinational clients. We advise clients on planning, consulting, preventing, and handling tax matters in both local and international transactions. Specifically, ArnStein’s tax team:
  • Provides advice on international, federal, state, and municipal tax matters.
  • Designs and implements investment and wealth management structures and corporate reorganizations.
  • Offers strategic advice during tax audits from national, state, and municipal tax authorities.
  • Assists and represents clients in administrative and judicial tax appeals.
  • Provides transfer pricing advice.
  • Assists and coordinates tax due diligences.

• Labour and Employment: Our Labor and Employment team provides comprehensive legal support in labour relations, social security, occupational health, and immigration law. We assist employers in structuring employment contracts, managing payroll, and resolving collective disputes effectively.

• Public Law: The Public Law team advises clients on regulatory matters, government relations, public contracts, expropriations, interventions, compliance, and constitutional law. Our team also helps companies navigate complex Venezuelan regulations across sectors such as energy, telecommunications, healthcare, and public utilities, offering guidance on licensing, inspections, and regulatory enforcement proceedings. The firm is recognized for its technical precision and successful litigation before administrative courts.

• Corporate: ArnStein’s Corporate Department combines years of experience advising multinational corporations with the dynamism and trusted service of a modern firm. Our corporate and mergers & acquisitions department offers clients the personalized attention of a legal boutique, coupled with highly specialized, pragmatic, and tailored consulting services. We are characterized by the provision of comprehensive and continuous advice to our clients in all corporate-related transactions. Specifically, we specialize in:
  • The incorporation of Venezuelan entities and amendments to their By-laws.
  • The design, organization, and execution of corporate structures for asset and investment protection purposes.
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring.
  • The sale of assets and/or shares, corporate agreements, and contracts.
  • Advice on foreign investments, real estate and infrastructure projects, as well as environmental and sustainability matters.

• Banking and Finance: ArnStein’s Banking & Finance Department is distinguished by its comprehensive and detailed advice on financial transactions, corporate finance, banking, insurance, capital markets, and exchange control regulations. Furthermore, the Banking & Finance practice specializes in retail and wholesale finance, credit operations, syndicated loans, securitization, issuance of obligations, public stock offerings and collaterals, as well as regulatory compliance, insolvency, debt restructuring, and due diligence on banking, insurance, and securities institutions. ArnStein’s Banking and Finance team provides legal advisory services to national and international financial institutions, investors, and corporate borrowers, among other clients.

• Dispute Resolution: ArnStein’s Dispute Resolution Department comprises experienced attorneys with over 20 years of expertise in strategic negotiations and amicable resolutions. ArnStein’s partners are a well-known team involved in international investment arbitration, having participated as co-counsels in ICSID cases. Our department has advised a broad range of clients from various sectors, including agri-food, construction, real estate, finance, and aviation, among others. ArnStein has developed significant skills for complex negotiations involving the Venezuelan government, sophisticated private contractual matters, and executing optimal strategies to negotiate arrangements.

Head Office: Avenida La Estancia con Ernesto Blohm, Torre B, Piso 5, Oficina B-53, Caracas, Venezuela.

Contact Details:

• Phone: +58 212 400 5200
• Email: [email protected]