Spread across Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo and Barquisimeto, the corporate team at Lega is frequently involved in high-end domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and company incorporations, including assisting clients with their expansions in Latin America or exits from Venezuela. The team is supported by the wider effort of the other practices at the firm, particularly the tax department, with team members liaising to provide clients with a full service. Pedro Urdaneta focuses on corporate transactions, including cross-border and domestic M&A, with additional expertise in the private equity, capital markets, cryptocurrency and technology spheres, while Luis Eduardo López Durán regularly handles M&A transactions for clients in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. José Alberto Ramírez and Elias Tarbay are other key names from the firm.
Key clients
- IBM
- Deutsche Lufthansa
Work highlights
- Assisted Deutsche Lufthansa in the global sale of the international part of LSG Sky Chefs to German private equity firm Aurelius.
- Assisting Rolex in the process of winding up its operations in Venezuela, which involves the termination of the distribution agreements that the Venezuelan company had with its resellers in the country, and the negotiation and drafting of new agreements that such resellers need to have to continue selling Rolex’s products in the country.