A Lawyer graduated from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela (Law Degree, 1993), with a Specialization Degree in Procedural Law from the same university (1998).

Until December 2005, he directed the Litigation and Conciliation Department at Imery, Trivella, Urdaneta & Alvarez, having under his responsibility the prosecution of cases in Civil, Commercial and Labor matters, including counseling in Cassation. During the period 2000-2001, he served as a Judicial Attorney for the Civil Cassation Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice. Likewise, he worked as trial attorney for the law firm Lafée-Hobaica & Asociados, Venezuela, from mid-1996 to mid-1997. From 1993 to 1996, he served as trial attorney for the law firm Araque, Reyna, De Jesús, Sosa, Viso & Pittier.

His professional practice embraces almost every aspect of the handling of 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 a vast knowledge and experience in Civil and Labor Cassation, constitutional protection actions and rulings’ reviews.

Throughout his ample professional practice, he has participated in the resolution of some of the most relevant judicial conflicts in Venezuela, such as the litigation for the inheritance left by prominent editor Mr. Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala (founder of the media giant Cadena Capriles), 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 is a professor of Contracts at Universidad Central de Venezuela. He is also professor of Civil Cassation at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. From 2004 to 2005 he was a professor of Obligations at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and until 2002, he was a Professor of Labor Procedural Law at the Specialization Course of Labor Law, Department of Post-Graduate Studies in the same university.

He was also an Assistant Professor of Contracts and Lecturer of Obligations at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in the period 1995-1997. He has also lectured at several national and international conferences on Civil Law.

In 2004 he was selected by the English magazine “Latin Lawyer” as one of the Top 25 Venezuelan lawyers under the age of 40. In 2015 and 2017, he was awarded by “Best Lawyers” as “Lawyer of the Year” in dispute resolution in Venezuela, and similarly recognized in 2015 and 2017 by “Chambers & Partners” in the Band 2 of Dispute Resolution.

He serves as active arbitrator at the Centro Empresarial de Conciliación y Arbitraje (CEDCA) and the Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Caracas.