Luis E. Andueza
Luis Ernesto specializes mainly in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, regulatory legislation, administrative and tax litigation, as well as competition law.
Besides his private practice, Luis Ernesto has been the Vice-President and a Justice of the First Court of Contentious-Administrative matters, the second highest court in the country. Previously, he was assistant to a Justice of the Supreme Court. He was also a consultant of British Telecommunications PLC, in England.
Luis Ernesto joined Macleod Dixon in 2001 as a partner in charge of the public law and competition department. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner of the public law and antitrust department of a major law firm in Venezuela.
- University of Warwick, Coventry, England, MBA, 1996
- Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, U.S., LL.M., 1992
- Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, law degree, 1987
- Caracas, 1987
- Spanish
- English
- Member, the Miranda State Bar Association, 2002
- Author: Legal Regime Applicable to the Mixed Companies of Article 22 of the Venezuelan Organic Hydrocarbons Law - Publicado en el Vol. 6 – issue 3 of Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL) Publication – November 2008
- Co-author, New Law Against Exchange Control Violations - Canadian International Lawyer – September 2008.
- Speaker: New Law on Public Contracting. Venezuelan - British Chamber of Commerce, May 14, 2008.
- Speaker: Legal Implications on the New Law against Exchange Control Violations - Exchange Control perspectives for 2008 at the Venezuelan - Canadian Chamber of Commerce, February 22, 2008.
- Speaker: New Law against Exchange Control Violations - Venezuelan Macroeconomic Perspectives for 2008. Venezuelan - Japanese Chamber, January 30, 2008.
- Speaker: New Law against Exchange Control Violations. Venezuelan - British Chamber of Commerce, January 23, 2008.
- Co-author: Impact of PDVSA’s Social Production Companies and the new Purchase Venezuelan Decree on the Venezuelan oil and gas industries. Published in the book Avances Legales en la Industria del Gas en Venezuela. Marzo 2007.
- Author: Control of Economic Concentrations published in the book Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho sobre Libre Competencia y Sectores Especiales. Fundación Estudios de Derecho Administrativo (FUNEDA) Venezuela, 2007
- Speaker: Critical Analysis of Recent Case Law and Commentators in Tax Matters. XVII International Gas Convention. May, 2006.
- Speaker: New Draft Anti-Monopoly, Anti-Oligopoly and Unfair Competition Law. Organized by FEDECÁMARAS. April 27, 2006.
- Speaker: Future of the merger Control System. I International Conference on Free Competition Law. Organized by the Foundation of Administrative Studies (FUNEDA). April 15, 2006.
- Speaker: Social Offer and Social Production Companies in Government Purchases: Practical and Legal Aspects. Organized by the Venezuelan-Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Venezuelan-British Chamber of Commerce and the Petroleum Legal Committee. March 8, 2006.
- Speaker: Exchange Control Regime applicable to Gas License’s Companies in Venezuela. Seminar: Gas Licenses in Venezuela. Organized by the British Chamber of Commerce. February 21, 2006.
- Speaker: Impact of the Law against Exchange Control Violations in the Exploration and Production Licenses of Gaseous Hydrocarbons. Seminar sponsored by the Venezuelan Association of Gas Processing Companies (AVPG), October, 2005
- Speaker: Impact of the Law against Exchange Control Violations within the Exchange Control Regime, with special reference to the Hydrocarbons business. September 29, 2005.
- Speaker: Impact on the Financing Activities of Banks, Banking Institutions and other Institutions. Seminar on the Special Law of Protection to Mortgagor. Organized by the Venezuelan - Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Venezuelan - British Chamber of Commerce. March 17, 2005.
- Speaker: Update on Exchange Legislation in Venezuela. Conference organized by the Venezuelan - Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Canadian Embassy. May 4, 2005.
- Día del Abogado Medal for service to the Republic and the Magistracy, and for honesty towards colleagues, Miranda State Bar Association, June 25, 2003
- Dr. Francisco Espejo Medal for outstanding service to the Republic and the Magistracy, Miranda State Bar Association, Los Teques, June 26, 2002
- Recipient, Chevening Scholarship, The British Council
- Recipient, Fulbright Scholarship, US Embassy in Venezuela
- Antitrust Professor in the postgraduate course of Administrative Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela since 1999
- Contentious-administrative and economic Professor in the postgraduate course of administrative/economical law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in 1997
- Professor of Introduction to Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1989-1990
- On Venezuela’s Official list of Arbitrators to the ICC, kept by the Caracas Chamber of Commerce
