D'Empaire

Corporate, Finance, Oil and Gas, and Venezuelan Sovereign International Financings

Partner

Partner since 2001. He was an intern at Shearman & Sterling in 1995.

He specializes on Venezuelan sovereign and quasi-sovereigns international financings, corporate law, oil and gas projects and corporate restructurings . He has participated in most of the significant Venezuelan financing transactions, including the issuance of PDVSA bonds. He has represented BNP Paribas, Barclays, CAF, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Haitong Securities, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), JP Morgan, UBS Securities.

Notable experience and representations include:

ABN AMRO BANK, as sole lead arranger and dealer manager in the offer and sale of PDVSA’s US$3.0 billion principal amount of 5.25% Notes due 2017, PDVSA’s US$3.0 billion principal amount of 5.375% Notes due 2027 and PDVSA’s US$1.5 billion principal amount of 5.50% Notes due 2037 Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) in a multi-billion dollar structured financing for PDVSA Deutsche Bank Securities in connection with Siderurgica del Turbio’s US$100 million 10% notes due 2016, and related bridge financing facility ABN AMRO Bank and a banking syndicate in connection with the US$135 million Pre-Export Finance Facility granted to C.V.G. Ferrominera Orinoco C.A. ABN AMRO, Calyon Securities and Deutsche Bank in connection with the offering of US$1.5 billion Bonds due 2016 and US$1.5 billion Bonds due 2020 issued by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Deutsche Bank and UBS Securities in connection with the offering of €1 billion 7% Global Bonds due 2015 issued by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Deutsche Bank Securities and JP Morgan in the tender offer, consent solicitation and repurchase of US$2.6 billion notes by PDVSA Finance Ltd. CSFB International in connection with the offering of US$1.5 billion 5.375% Notes due 2010 and the repurchase of US$3.8 billion Brady Bonds issued by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Carlos is currently ranked as “Band 1” by Chambers & Partners (2019 Venezuela Banking & Finance Rankings) and The Legal 500 describes him as “highly professional” and “well regarded” (2018 Venezuela Banking & Finance Rankings).

Spanish and English

Bar Association of the Capital District, Caracas, Venezuela.

He received a J.D. from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in 1992, and an M.C.J. from New York University in 1994.