Mr. Alvarez concentrates his practice in Corporate Law, specialized in the Capital Markets, Securities, M&A, Oil and Gas, Cross Border and International Litigation and Arbitration, Entrepreneurship, Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments.

He is member of the roster of mediators and arbitrators of the Arbitration Center of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Alvarez is an active Law Professor at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (UCAB), where he teaches Contracts Law. He has also been Professor with the IESA MBA, Caracas.

Experience in the U.S. and in the American Region

•  Has experience in cross border corporate finance.
• Has worked in capital raising (mainly by non-US corporations) in the United States and outside the United States. He has been directly involved in the issuance of ADS/ADRS, Registered and under Rule 144A; also in operations or emissions under Regulation’s’.
• Has worked in the registration of securities of various countries, including the United States.
• Has worked in developing business strategies in preparation for initial public offerings to the markets directly with corporate finance departments of both issuers and entities of the financial sector involved in the process.
• He also worked in fundraising through the issuance of convertible bonds and non-convertibles.
• Has excented extensive due diligence and writing the Placement Memoranda and Prospectuses.
• Has been involved in issuance of Mexican companies: airlines (operating in excess of $ 50 million), bottling companies (above U.S. $ 20 million), and financial institutions (financial conglomerates); in Colombia: supermarkets (over U.S. $ 100 Million), dairy producers (over $ 30 Million), supermarkets and hypermarkets in Chile (over 30 Million); in Argentina: power and utility companies over U.S. $ 200 million).

Experience in Venezuela

• Was appointed as Judicial Receiver (SINDICO) of one of the chapter 11 process of the largest department stores.
• Part of the business governance of several family businesses.
• Participates in control of operations, business management and risk management for the Board of Directors or Steering Committees of several corporations.
• Has been Associate Justice in Court.
• FREE MARKETS AND COMPETITION. His career in Venezuela began with the Superintendence for the Promotion and Protection of Free Competition (PROCOMPETENCIA) Agency (Venezuelan Activist Agency).
• Several mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.
• Acquisition by a foreign entity (Colombian) of a food processor (over U.S. $ 40 million, advisor to buyer).
• Acquisition by a foreign group (Colombian) of a chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets across the country (above U.S. $ 100 Million, advisor to the buyer).
• Acquisition of a foreign group (Colombian) of a business related to the manufacture, distribution and sale of high pressure laminated plywood (over U.S. $ 20 million buyer’s advisor).
• Sale of a business related to the manufacture, distribution, imports and sale of office products and pencils (above U.S. $ 30 Million, advisor to seller).
• Transfer of significant portions of major company’s shareholdings listed in the Caracas Stock Exchange (over U.S. $ 10 million).
• Advisor of Investment Banks and issuers throughout the process of issuing companies in Venezuela (emission in the local market and abroad over U.S. $ 50 Million).
• Advisor to a Korean group in the privatization of SIDOR.
• Representative of a Canadian group that acquired a large hotel in the city of Caracas. During this period he advised the hotel operator in all aspects.
• Representative of a Canadian group that acquired a significant share in one of its largest customers, a dairy company at Lara State, Venezuela.
• Representative largest gas distribution company in the region (Colombian) at its inception stage in Venezuela, specifically exploring the possibility of participating in the pipeline Anzoátegui (Preliminary Phase $ 400 million).
• Representative of the majority share block, owner of a company which itself owns one of the largest sugar mills in Venezuela. In this negotiation, the group sold its shares to one of the largest transnational companies of Venezuela (U.S. $ 5 million).
• Representative of the minority shareholders of a chemical company that was acquired in a hostile manner by a competitor (U.S. $ 2 Million).
• Representative of a Canadian company that acquired all assets related to a paint manufacturing and pigments plant located in the state of Carabobo (U.S. $ 2 Million).
• Representative of a company that sells and installs commercial kitchens for hotels, restaurants and franchises. The last negotiation was the installation of industrial kitchens in a naval vessel; these works are undertaken outside Venezuela.
• Representative of a company of administrative outsourcing services to oil companies. The business had over 70 employees dedicated to managing service contracts and profit-sharing and partnership agreements with the oil industry sector.
• Advisor to former Venezuelan Investment Fund (FIV), in designing the privatization strategy and processes for the electric and power section.
• Advisor to several Electricity Companies around the country.
• Advisor over IPC Contracting and Project Finance.
• Advisor over legal aspects of one of the largest oil service companies in the world. The work spanned multiple disciplines.
• Advisor over legal aspects of one of the largest ‘utilities’ company in the world. The work spanned multiple disciplines with its subsidiaries in Venezuela and Colombia.
• Advisor to several brokerage houses and investment banks both local and foreign.
• Advisor of several public brokers and several securities brokers and foreign investment advisors.
• Advisor to a TV channel.
• Internet Business: advisor in the fundraising (of capital abroad, and in the design and implementation of corporate structures.
• Advisor to helicopters and air and space companies in aviation and accident related topics (products liability).

Practices

• Private Equity
•  Venture Capital
• Local and Cross-Border Capital Markets
• Securities
•  Oil, Gas and Electricity
•  M&A and Reorganizations
•  Project Finance
•  Privatization
•  Foreign Investments
•  Antitrust
•  International Litigation
•  Insurance
•  Local and International Arbitration
•  Family Business
•  Information Technology and Internet Law
•  Cross Border Litigation
•  Aviation