We would like to present our publication entitled "Venezuelan Legal Context: Oil, Gas and Mining". In it you will find 6 papers prepared by members of LEGA's Energy and Natural Resources practice area. With these papers we wish to contribute to the discussion of key aspects related to energy and natural resources issues in Venezuela. The essays summarize some aspects that we have analyzed from a practical, but also theoretical perspective, so while they try to analyse some important concepts, they also aim to suggest practical solutions to some problems that we identified...
LEGA Abogados
Overview
LEGA is a leading law firm in the Venezuelan market and of international renown. At LEGA, we have a modern approach to the practice of law, supported by the use of technology and based on the values of excellence, tenacity, integrity, empathy, innovation and versatility. The firm brings together more than 500 years of experience in the practice of law and, in 2018, its partners decided to give it greater dynamism, a new image and its current name, coming from Esperanto.
LEGA has 38 service areas, divided into 15 practice areas, covering all branches of law, and 23 industry areas, created on the basis of the extensive experience of our team in those business sectors. LEga is one of the largest law firms in Venezuela and its lawyers have accumulated more than 40 awards, granted by the world's most important legal publications, which have also certified the high quality of all our practice groups.
With a strong international focus, LEGA is the preferred law firm of a high number of multinational clients in Venezuela. The firm is an exclusive member of several international networks that oblige it to maintain the highest standards of service to domestic and foreign clients. In Venezuela, LEGA has been a key participant in academic associations and its lawyers have been involved in leadership roles in many of them.
LEGA mission is to provide clients with high-level legal advice, aimed at obtaining results in a cost-efficient manner and based on the use of technology.
Year this Office was Established: 1942
Lawyers Worldwide: 38
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Partner

Carlos Dominguez
Senior Partner
Victoria Ferullo
Marketing Executive
Luis E Lopez-Duran
Partner
Mark Melilli-Silva
Partner
Jose Alberto Ramirez
Partner
Miguel Rivero-Betancourt
Senior Partner
Nathalie Rodriguez
Partner
Laura Silva-Aparicio
Consultant
Maria Elena Subero
Partner
Jose Gregorio Torrealba
Senior Partner
John Tucker
PartnerPedro Urdaneta
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Andres Chacon
Junior Partner
Natalia De Paz
Junior Partner
Alejandro Gallotti
Junior Partner
Lisette Garcia-Gandica
Junior Partner
Carlos A Henriquez
Junior Partner
Andres Linares
Junior Partner
Elina Pou-Ruan
Junior Partner
Rosa Virginia Superlano
Junior PartnerAssociate

Fernando Delgado
Associate
Andres Mejia
Associate
Isabel Pestana
Associate
Elias Tarbay
Associate
Dubraska Zapiain
AssociateOf Counsel

Juan Aigster
Partner
Gonzalo Capriles
Consultant
Hildamar Fernandez
Consultant
Faustino Flamarique
Senior Partner
Cesar Garcia Novoa
ConsultantArticles
Can Workers be Required to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
As of March 11, 2020, the date on which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, States have taken various measures such as social distancing, restriction of free movement, the closure of borders, among others, which have undoubtedly had a decisive impact on people in general, and especially on workers and employers. This virus managed to spread throughout the world in a matter of months and only in America registered a death toll of over 1 million people at the end of 2020 [1]...
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LEGA Abogados Adds Six New Partners to its Caracas Office.
LEĜA Abogados is pleased to announce the incorporation of six new partners as of April 1st, 2021. With this new addition, the firm brings its partners count to thirty. This newly promoted group of young professionals is formed by Rosa Caballero Perdomo, Andrés Mejía Barboza, Isabel Pestana, Fernando Sanquírico Pittevil, Elías Tarbay Reverón and Dubraska Zapiaín. Below is a brief biographical outline of each of these professionals. Rosa Caballero is a lawyer graduated from Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV for its Spanish acronym). Specialist in Tax Law, with honors, from UCV. Diploma in International Taxation from Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain...
Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque Abogados Announces Change of Corporate Identity
We are pleased to announce that from 8 March 2018, we at Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque Abogados will continue our operations under the name of Leĝa Abogados, a leading Venezuelan law firm committed to providing a new and innovative approach to the local and global challenges of a changing market. Our intention is to invigorate our firm, with an important emphasis on institutionalization and the use of technology to be closer to our clients. Since 2002, the full-service law firm Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque Abogados has been operating independently from Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque, the intellectual property firm, which will still operate under that same name...