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About
Provided by Luisa Acedo
Practice Areas
Corporation law, M&As (including due diligence procedures), international corporate structures, project financing, international sanctions, capital markets, foreign investment, exchange controls and contracts.
Assists major international clients, their local subsidiaries, Venezuelan companies and individuals with all their corporate needs. Key member of the international sanctions team. Works in the design and implementation of corporate structures, carefully integrated from the point of view of compatibility, jurisdiction and governance issues.
Career
Education: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Lawyer, “summa cum laude”, 1981). Professor of Contemporary International History at Universidad Metropolitana (1998-2006).
Joined MENPA - Mendoza, Palacios, Acedo, Borjas, Páez Pumar & Cía. in 2000. Partner in 2012.
Publications
Author of several articles on corporation law, published by the Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales; and co-author of two books on the same subject; and of articles on insurance law, securities transactions, arbitration and project financing. The book, “La Sociedad Anónima”, written with Manuel Acedo Mendoza (first edition Caracas 1985, reprinted in 1991, 1996, 2000), became a text book for Corporate Law, is used at important Venezuelan universities, and has been quoted by other authors, and in court decisions, among them by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice. Author of a series of short biographies of contemporary Venezuelan personalities, published by Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, in 1998 and 1999.
Personal
Languages: Spanish, English, French.
Articles, highlights and press releases
2 items provided by Mendoza, Palacios, Acedo, Borjas, Páez Pumar & Cía
New opportunities in Venezuela. Recent history and current openings
Luisa Acedo and Diego Lepervanche
The transfer of company shares under Venezuelan law
<a>THE TRANSFER OF COMPANY SHARES: MOMENT OF OCCURRENCE AND EFFECTS BEFORE THIRD PARTIES</a><br/>The flexibility of the rules regarding the Venezuelan sociedad anónima (the most usual form of corporation, referred to here as the company) has produced an efficient instrument for the development of bu
New opportunities in Venezuela. Recent history and current openings
Luisa Acedo and Diego Lepervanche
The transfer of company shares under Venezuelan law
<a>THE TRANSFER OF COMPANY SHARES: MOMENT OF OCCURRENCE AND EFFECTS BEFORE THIRD PARTIES</a><br/>The flexibility of the rules regarding the Venezuelan sociedad anónima (the most usual form of corporation, referred to here as the company) has produced an efficient instrument for the development of bu