Araque Reyna Sosa Viso & Asociados

Founded in 1986, Araque Reyna Sosa Viso & Asociados was conceived as a modern and highly professionalised institution, capable of providing high quality integrated legal counselling to its clients. Due to our vision of establishing long-standing relationships based on mutual trust and client satisfaction, the firm has maintained lasting professional relations with numerous major business organisations, including national and multinational corporations, financial institutions, mass-production enterprises, non-profit organisations, multilateral agents, trade unions, professional institutions and individuals alike. Since its inception, Araque Reyna Sosa Viso & Asociados has been known as one of the leading law firms in Venezuela.

We offer our clients a unique practical, creative and efficient approach as the basis of our legal services. All issues are dealt with the utmost sense of duty, securing thorough understanding of the needs and objectives of each individual client and a close lawyer-client relationship. We place great importance in developing internal systems that allow us to handle cases with the highest quality while minimising any risk of mistakes, which ensures that we respond in a timely and efficient way at both strategic and transactional levels. In this way we become a valued adviser and a first-hand helper in our clients’ businesses.

Members of the firm commit exclusively to our client’s requirements following the highest ethical principles. Our partners and associates are professionals of the highest quality, coming from the best universities in Venezuela, the United States and Europe and with substantial education and expertise in their areas of practice. Additionally, several lawyers of the firm share their professional duties with educational and academic activities in all the major law schools of Caracas. The firm actively promotes the work of our professionals as professors and writers in the creation of national legal doctrine.

Our institution is organised in areas of practice comprising the main areas of specialisation offered to clients. This structure enables us to have the flexibility and dynamism demanded by clients while securing the quality and consistency needed in multidisciplinary transactions and legal cases. Cross-cooperation between practice groups is encouraged and supervised, leading the way towards the understanding of emerging legal areas.

Araque Reyna Sosa Viso & Asociados has vast experience in litigation and business, public policy counselling and all forms of representation and negotiation. Such skills are applied in all major business areas of law, including business and corporate law, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, taxation of national and international transactions, labour and employment, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, commercial, administrative and civil litigation, regulatory and economic law (anti-dumping, antitrust, public utilities, banking and insurance, financial regulation, regulation of international transactions) intellectual property law, new technologies and administrative and constitutional law.

Centro Lido, Torre C, Piso 8

Avenida Francisco de Miranda

El Rosal

Caracas

Venezuela

Tel: +58 212 953 9244

Fax: +58 212 953 7777

Pedro Sosa

psosa@araquereyna.com

Manuel Reyna

mreyna@araquereyna.com

Pedro Planchart

pplanchart@araquereyna.com

www.araquereyna.com