Ramón Ignacio Andrade
Ramón's professional practice focuses on the areas of corporate and commercial law, and negotiations for the acquisition of already established companies such as banks and service companies, along with organizations providing products for mass consumption and information technology.
Ramón also has wide experience in the structuring and negotiating of contracts for new businesses, joint ventures and the negotiation of settlement agreements between disputing parties as well as in the procedures for the declaration of bankruptcy and the liquidation of companies.
Before joining Macleod Dixon in May 2000, Ramón was President of Tecnotip, C.A., a prestigious nationwide graphic arts products distribution company. Prior to that he was an associate in a major law firm in Caracas and also Director at Seguros Banvalor, C.A. (a Venezuelan insurance company).
- Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, masters degree in Financial and Tax Law, 2003
- "Introduction to US Business Law", Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2001
- Miranda State Bar Association Medal for professional achievementsUniversidad Católica Andrés Bello, law degree, 1995
- Caracas, 1996
- Spanish
- English
- Member: Miranda State Bar Association
- Member: E-Commerce, Tax and International Commerce and Investments Policies Commissions, International Chamber of Commerce - Venezuelan Chapter
- Member: regulatory committee of the law on Data Messaging and Electronic Signatures of the e-Commerce Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce (CAVECOM-e)
- Member: Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce (VenAmCham) e-Commerce Committee.
- Vice President: World Association of Young Jurists and Chapter Law Students (1994 to 1996)
- Advisor to the Long Distance Operators (telephony) Committee
- Speaker, Regulations to Venezuela's Organic Law on Science, Technology and Innovation Governing Contributions and Investments are Finally Enacted, organized by the Venezuelan Association of Chemical and Petrochemical Industries (ASSOQUIM). November 27, 2006.
- Speaker, Regulations to Venezuela's Organic Law on Science, Technology and Innovation Governing Contributions and Investments are Finally Enacted, organized by the Venezuelan Petroleum Chamber. November 24, 2006.
- Speaker, Regulations to Venezuela's Organic Law on Science, Technology and Innovation Governing Contributions and Investments are Finally Enacted, organized by Venezuelan-German Chamber of Commerce (CAVENAL). November 14, 2006.
- Speaker, Regulations to Venezuela's Organic Law on Science, Technology and Innovation Governing Contributions and Investments are Finally Enacted, organized by the Venezuelan-Colombian Chamber of Commerce (CAVECOL). November 9, 2006.
- Co-author, Regulations to Venezuela's Organic Law on Science, Technology and Innovation Governing Contributions and Investments are Finally Enacted. Latin American Law and Business Report. October 31, 2006.
- Speaker, Electronic Trade- Electronic Businesses- Legal, Operational, Business and Trading Aspects Conference, organized by CEAPROF, November 18 and 19, 2003
- Speaker, General Legal Aspects of Services Exportation, The Venezuelan Association of Construction Exportation (AVEXCON), Caracas, April 24, 2003
- Speaker, New LNG Opportunities in Venezuela, The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators' (AIPN) Annual Meeting and Spring Conference, Houston, Texas, April 2003
- Author, Permanent Establishment is a Challenge for Electronic Commerce, El Nacional, Caracas, March 14, 2002
- Author, The Inner Workings of Cyberspace Law, The Daily Journal, Caracas, March 13, 2002
- Author, What happened to the Venezuelan Data Messages and Electronic Signatures Law?, The Daily Journal, Caracas, February 24, 2002
- Co-author, The New Organic Law on Science, Technology and Innovation, Latin American Law and Business Report, December 31, 2001
- Co-author, The New Special Law on Computer Crimes in Venezuela, Global e-Commerce Law and Business Report, November 2001
- Speaker, Presentation of the New Law on Data Messaging and Electronic Signatures, forum at The Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce (VenAmCham), 2002
- Speaker, Regulatory Perspectives of the Law on Data Messaging and Electronic Signatures, II Seminar on Information and Technology Security, 2001
- Miranda State Bar Association Medal for professional achievements
- Member, The Center for the Communication of Knowledge in Economics ("Cedice") (a Venezuelan think tank devoted to teaching and communicating free market ideas and principles), ongoing
- Student representative before the General Services Commission of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (1994 to 1995)
- Member, Venezuelan team, Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (1994)
- Member, Venezuelan student delegation, World Law Conference: "Law in a Changing World" (1993)
