A Lawyer graduated of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Law Degree, 2002) and currently pursuing a Specialization Degree in Commercial Law at the same university.

In 2001 he joined the law firm Imery, Trivella, Urdaneta & Álvarez as a legal assistant; subsequently, in 2002 he became Associate at the Litigation Department of the same firm until December 2005. Since 2006, he became part of the law firm Colmenares Trivella Carballo & Asociados.

His practice focuses mainly in attending judicial conflicts in Civil and Commercial Law, with special emphasis on the resolution of partnerships’ and corporations’ conflicts, as well as family disputes (divorce, co-property partitions and hereditary successions), judicial proceedings related to real estate, money collecting, civil responsibility, among others. He also has an ample knowledge and experience in Civil Cassation and Commercial Arbitration.

Some of the most important conflicts he has taken part in, are the shareholders’ dispute for the control of the Banco Provivienda (Banpro), as well as other conflicts involving shareholders and groups of companies from the industrial and textile sectors, and from the consumer electronics retail and telecommunication areas. He also served as counselor of the international defense contractor Raytheon Anchütz before the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, and as part of the local legal team in the correlative international arbitration proceeding conducted in Madrid under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) rules, which was led by a US Law Firm. Additionally, he has litigated several divorce cases that involved principal shareholders of financial institutions and well known Venezuelan and foreign entrepreneurs.

He has been invited several times to lecture at the course of “Civil Cassation” at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and “Contracts” at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

He serves as active arbitrator at the Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Caracas.