Luis Ernesto Andueza Galeno
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
- Speaker: Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Ethics Developments in Latin America, at the Tulane Latin American Law Institute Conference, December 1-3, 2004.
- Coauthor: Judgment from Supreme Tribunal of Justice; Rule on International Investments, Technology Transfer and Technical Assistance, Latin American Law & Business Report, November 30, 2004.
- Speaker at the New Consumer Protection Law Conference, organized by VENAMCHAM, May 12, 2004.
- Speaker, Impact of the New Foreign Currency Administration Regime on the Oil and Gas Business, Forum sponsored by The Venezuelan Association of Gas Processing Companies (AVPG), March 2003
- Speaker, The New Exchange Control Regime, Telecommunications Companies’ Chamber (CANAEMTE), February 2003
- Speaker, The New Exchange Control Regime, Services and Telecommunications Companies’ Chamber (CASETEL), February 2003
- Speaker, The New Exchange Control Regime, Venezuelan-Canadian Chamber of Commerce, February 2003
- Speaker, The Economic Services’ Regulatory Agencies (Los Entes Reguladores de los Servicios Económicos). At the VI Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Administrativo - Allan Randolph Brewer-Carías, Caracas, March 7, 2002
- Co-author, The New Venezuelan Bidding Law, Latin American Finance & Capital Markets, February 28, 2002
- Speaker, Telecommunications and Free Competition (Telecomunicaciones y Libre Competencia) at II Congreso de Derecho de las Telecomunicaciones e Internet. UCAB. January 2001
- Speaker, The Free Competition Regime and Telecommunications Opening (El Régimen de la Libre Competencia y la Apertura de las Telecomunicaciones) at El Régimen Jurídico de las Telecomunicaciones forum, organized by the Foundation for Administrative Law Studies (Fundación de Estudios de Derecho Administrativo) May 2001
- Author, Free Competition in the Telecommunications Sector (La Libre Competencia en el Sector de las Telecomunicaciones), published in the book Nuevo Régimen Jurídico de las Telecomunicaciones en Venezuela, 2001
- 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
