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Victor Barrientos
Senior Associate Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, Spanish
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Victor Barrientos is an international business lawyer, licensed to practice law in Texas, Mexico and Venezuela. With an LLM in International Banking and Financial Law from Boston University, and 20 years of experience practicing international transactional law, Victor’s career has been dedicated to delivering legal counsel in cross-border transactions, corporate law, project finance, joint ventures, public-private partnerships, M&A, international financing, and dispute resolution, especially in the Energy sector (oil, gas, petrochemicals, electricity).
With a unique combination of legal qualifications in both civil and common law systems, Victor specializes in counseling clients navigating complex international legal frameworks, structuring business entities, advising clients in the development of large infrastructure projects, negotiating contracts, and facilitating mergers and acquisitions. Victor has extensive experience working in Latin American countries, particularly in Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and Peru, as well as in the United States.
Representative experience
Advised the Peruvian Agency for Investment PROINVERSION in the drafting of the public private partnerships model contracts to be used in international tenders.
Advised Mexico Pacific Limited in the construction of a terminal for processing Liquified Natural Gas in the State of Sonora, Mexico.
Advised the Republic of Panama in the renegotiation of a mining contract executed with First Quantum Mineral / Minera Panama for the exploitation of copper in the country.
Advised Teva Pharmaceuticals in a cross-border M&A transaction for the sale of its Venezuelan assets.
Advised TransCanada on the development and construction of a pipeline for the transportation of natural gas in Mexico under a public-private partnership with an estimated value of US$4.5 billion.
Advised the Republic of Ecuador in the drafting of the model contracts for the exploration and exploitation of crude oil under a risk profit sharing structure.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M. Banking and Financial Law, Boston University School of Law, 2001
- Diploma, International Business Assistance, Harvard University, 2001
- Law Degree, Universidad Católica del Táchira, 1999
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Venezuela
- Mexico
- Texas
Memberships
- Member, Asociacion Venezolana de Derecho Financiero
- Member, Latin American Corporate Counsel Association
- Member, State Bar of Texas
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27 February 2024