Juan Domingo Alfonzo Paradisi

Practice Areas

Public Law

Regulatory Law

Administrative law

Constitutional right

Competition Law

Tax Law

Consumer Protection Law

Environmental law

Right to Competition

Career

•Negotiations Model Workshop. Harvard University. 2005.

•Doctorate in Higher Studies in Public Administration. National Public Administration Institute (INAP), with the collaboration of Universidad Alcalá de Henares (Spain). 1992. Graduated Cum Laude.

•Doctorate in Administrative Law. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 1992.

•Specialization in Administrative Law. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB). 1990.

•Lawyer. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB). 1987.

Professional Memberships

Currently is member of the Venezuelan Tax Law Association (AVDT); of the Administrative Law Foundation (Funeda), and of the Venezuelan Law & Economic Association (VELEA). He was a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates of the National Public Administration Institute (INAP) of Spain

Experience

• He has represented companies before the National Superintendence for the Defense of Socio-Economic Rights (SUNDDE), the Superintendence of Banks, the Superintendence of Insurance and Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).

• He has assisted companies in cost structure design and regulation prices matters.

• Advice and assistance in expropriation procedures and administrative penalty procedures under the law for access to goods and services.

•Advice and assistance in expropriation processes and steps before Cadivi.

•Advice and assistance in matters of Administrative Law and foreign exchange, including regulatory issues, penalty proceedings, concessions, bids, privatizations and decentralization.

•Advice and assistance in Administrative Economic matters (free competition, foreign exchange, telecommunications and unfair practices in international commerce).

•Advice and assistance in Constitutional Law (especially in matters of constitutional rights and guaranties) and Corporate Law or Finance related.

•Advice and assistance in the process of purchase by the State of privately-held Shares.

•Advice and assistance facing a decree for the nationalization of our Cement industry, based on its being a strategic resource for national development. Analysis, comments, implications and actions regarding the Decree with the Status and Force of an Organic Law of Ordering of Cement Producing Companies in Official Gazette No. 5.886, dated June 18, 2008.

•Advice and assistance with Administrative Penalties. Procedure under the Law for Access to Goods and Services (Occupancy Procedure and Procedures before the Ministry of Finance and Cadivi acts).

•Advice and assistance in processes associated with mining rights and subjects relating to the continuity of the concession rights.

•Advice and assistance in Antitrust matters for several banks before Procompetencia, regarding Credit Card Services, pertaining to a claim by the Venezuelan Federation of Associations of Consumers and Users (Fevacu), regarding acquisition services, discount rates, inter-banking or Commerce Commission.

•Advice and assistance in economic concentration process. Along these lines, the Firm conducted an in-depth analysis of the Venezuelan market for veterinary medications to determine whether or not such operation presented restraint to free competition.

•Advice regarding the request for the authorization of a merger for an important transnational mass consumption company with another of great relevance in the manufacturing area. Merger of the two companies before the Free Competition Promotion and Protection Superintendency (Procompetencia), with counsel from the Administrative-Economic Department at Torres Plaz & Araujo, together with the Law Offices of D’Empaire, Reyna, Bermúdez & Associates, and the Legal Departments of the organizations involved.

•Advice regarding Antitrust matters to two airlines. Also provided assistance to such airlines in relation to Administrative and Contentious proceedings relating to claims for alleged cauterizing and abuse of a dominant position before Procompetencia.

•Advice and assistance to the electric sector in the design of strategies for privatization and investment and separation of activities. Drafting contracts and advising on regulatory matters. Assistance in the creation of independent power systems, and advising companies in the electric sector, both on administrative contracts, concessions and bids, and in mining matters.

•Assisted in the preparation, presentation and follow up on administrative appeals before national, state and municipal entities, and Contentious-Administrative, unconstitutionality and constitutional relief appeals before the courts of the Republic. Has also conducted the procedures before the Free Competition Promotion and Protection Superintendency (Procompetencia), the Antidumping and Subsidies Commission (CASS) and the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel).

•Participation as an expert in ICSID arbitration law in association with the claim for indemnification for the Las Cristinas project.

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English