I am a multilingual seasoned legal professional with a passion for navigating complex legal landscapes. My expertise ranges across diverse sectors including oil and gas, mining, renewable energy, lithium, aeronautics and arbitration. My professional journey began in the academia, as a young professor and Law School Coordinator (Vice dean). In 2004 I was awarded a Fulbritht – LASPAU Scholarship to pursue an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and became the only Bolivian to ever be awarded a United Nations Fulbright Fellowship (2005) to serve at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) in Vienna, Austria. I have navigated the complexities of hydrocarbon nationalization in Bolivia, protecting legal value of circa 700 million dollars and transitioning to new operational contracts for business continuity of many IOCs. As an Independent Expert on the abandonment of 32 oil wells in Colpa Caranda, I handled and determined liabilities in a significant USD 30 million conflict. I have championed best practices in the energy sector during my time as Legal Counsel for the Board of Directors of the Hydrocarbon and Energy Chamber in Bolivia. As a consultant at Gas Transboliviano S.A. (GTB) I played a pivotal role in crafting new transportation contracts and exportation tariffs for gas to Brazil. As GTB’s General Counsel, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I learned much more about crisis management. I have drafted Due Diligence reports; supported M&A transactions, miscellaneous expert service contracts in upstream, midstream, specialized surface and well supply agreements (e.g. Drilling, Mud Logging, Seismic, Slickline), Joint Operating Agreement between multinational companies and NOCs, FIDIC contracts, negotiation and commercial arbitration.
Since 2018, I expanded my consultancy to lithium projects, advising ACI Systems Alemania Gmbh (ACISA) in the first JV for lithium extraction and industrialization in Uyuni, a 300 million dollar project.Nowadays, I provide cMore...