LANDAEZ Abogados – Consultores

Founded: 1966

Location: Valencia, Venezuela.

No. of Partners: 3

Associates: 3

Employees: 10

No. of Departments: 2

LANDAEZ, Abogados Consultores, is an outstanding law firm, located in Valencia, Venezuela, which permanently covers the states of Carabobo and Aragua. Its main areas of performance are Labour & Employment Law, and Corporate Law. Its professionals advise and represent the main industries and companies in the north central region of the country, specifically the companies located in the states of Carabobo and Aragua. Likewise, LANDAEZ has an ISO 9001 Quality Management System, and is the only Venezuelan Law Firm located outside of Caracas that is in the Chambers and Partners Ranking in the Guide Latin America 2023.

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:

Labour & Employment Law:

It has 2 partners, and 2 associates. In the Department of Labour & Employment Law, the Firm advises and represents national and transnational companies, in multiple productive sectors, such as the industrial sector, telephony, commerce, and banking.

Some of the services provided by the Firm are the following:

-Advice and consultancy in legal-labor matters;

-Representation and defense of clients in labor litigation such as: lawsuits for social benefits and labor benefits, lawsuits for work-related illnesses and accidents, lawsuits for inventions, constitutional protections, among others;

-Negotiations of collective agreements;

-Negotiations in union disputes and strikes;

-Determination of labor costs for collective bargaining, using a self-made simulation tool; -Drafting of employment contracts;

-Labor audits;

-Recruitment of expatriates;

-Head count strategies.

Its most recent success stories are:

-Representation of an important transnational company in the negotiation with the workers' union for reasons of financial complications of the company, in which the temporary modification of the Collective Bargaining Agreement was agreed upon;

-Advice to the Embassy of a foreign government, on the legal management of labor benefits for embassy employees;

-Drafting of employment contracts, designed under a novel legal strategy that implies better control of labor liabilities, applied to a sales area made up of more than 400 collaborators;

-Successful closure of a labor lawsuit on labor benefits due to the interpretation of some clauses of a collective agreement, which has an implication on more than 6,000 workers;

-Legal adjustment of a labor benefit for senior executives of transnational companies, which was applied to several countries in the Latin American region.

The partners involved in the practice of Labour & Employment Law are:

César Uzcátegui

+58-424-4486358

[email protected]

Liliana García

+58-414-9487983

[email protected]

Corporate Law:

There is 1 partner and 1 associate. In the Department of Corporate Law, the Firm advises and represents national and transnational companies, in the industrial, commercial, and banking sectors.

Some of the services provided by the Firm are the following:

- Mergers and acquisitions,

- Joint ventures,

- Constitution of companies,

- Corporate update,

- Commercial contracts,

- Commercial consultancy,

- Due diligence

- Representation in court

- Commercial arbitration

The most recent success stories are:

- Consulting and representation of industrial contract, for a lump sum of more than $2,000,000.

- Debt acknowledgment and restructuring agreement for an amount greater than $1,000,000.

- Merger between two industries in the hardware and paint sector, with a legal redesign of the commercial strategy as a result of the merger.

The partner involved in the practice of corporate law is:

Leoncio Landáez

+58-424-3561975

[email protected]

INTERNATIONAL JOBS:

-Advice and hiring of international personnel for a client located mainly in the United States of America. The company was advised throughout the contracting process, and the legal strategy.

-Advice to a client in litigation in the United States with international implications, with effects in Venezuela.

-Structure and legal design (contracts, legal processes, legal opinions, and all applicable legal advice) for a transnational company in the construction sector, in the housing complex project with special legal regime in the Dominican Republic.

-Drafting of technology companies contract between USA and Mexico.

-Drafting of contract and all legal documentation of a technology company in the USA.

OFFICE:

-Urbanización Carabobo, calle 149, edificio Barcelona Suites, PB, Local 1. Valencia, Venezuela.

www.landaez.com

[email protected]

+58-241-8235070

+58-241-8235052