D'Empaire

Corporate, Telecommunications, Aviation Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions

Partner

Arnoldo specializes in corporate law, aviation law, telecommunications law and mergers and acquisitions, representing both multinational and Venezuelan companies. Before becoming a partner at D’Empaire in 1996, Arnoldo worked as an intern at the Austin offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody in 1991. He has also acted at the board of directors of Banco Republica (1995-1998) and Corporacion Digitel (2000-2006).

His representations include:

Pirelli in the sale of its Venezuelan subsidiary Global Crossing in the acquisition of Impsat for US$336 million Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) in the sale of its shares in Corporación Digitel to Telvenco, S.A. for US$425 million Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Corporacion Digitel Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) in its purchase of the remaining minority shareholdings of Corporacion Digitel Associated British Foods (ABF) in its acquisition of Venezuelan assets from Burns Philp The Carlyle Group, as Venezuelan counsel in connection with the purchase of the Engineered Products Division of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for US$1.4 billion

Arnoldo is currently ranked as “Band 2” by Chambers & Partners (2019 Venezuela Corporate/M&A Rankings) and described as a “respected partner [with] long-standing experience working in this field”. He has been continuously recognized as an experienced top corporate lawyer in Venezuela.

Spanish, English and Italian

Bar Association of the Capital District, Caracas, Venezuela.

International Bar Association

He received a J.D. cum laude from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in 1988, an M.C.J. from the University of Texas in 1991 and a master’s degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in tax law in 1994.