Francisco Bolinaga > D'Empaire > Caracas, Venezuela > Lawyer Profile
D'Empaire Offices
EDIFICIO BANCARACAS, P.H
PLAZA LA CASTELLANA
CARACAS 1060
Venezuela
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Francisco Bolinaga
Work Department
Environmental Law
Position
Partner
Career
Francisco Bolinaga advises multinationals and Venezuelan companies on environmental law matters.
Before becoming a partner at D’Empaire in 2012, Francisco worked as legal advisor of the Venezuelan National Parks Institute (Inparques) (1994), external legal advisor to the Venezuelan Ministry of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (1994-1995), legal advisor of the Los Roques National Park Archipelago (1995-1999), and founding partner and head of the law firm Bolinaga Levy Márquez & Canova.
Representative matters in which Francisco has been involved include the representation of Nestlé in the evaluation of the environmental legal risk regarding its factories located across Venezuela.
Francisco is currently ranked as a “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 (2018 Venezuela Environment Rankings) and has been continuously recognized by Chambers & Partners as a leading environmental expert in Venezuela.
Languages
English and Spanish.
Memberships
Bar Association of the Capital District, Caracas, Venezuela.
Education
Francisco studied law at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (J.D., 1989), and received a specialization degree on environmental management from Universidad Metropolitana (2007).
Lawyer Rankings
Venezuela > Public law
D’Empaire handles a wide range of matters within the public law field, including advising on freedom of speech issues for one of Venezuela’s largest telecoms players and on nationalisations and expropriations affecting major domestic companies. Alongside this, the firm has engaged in a number of matters in the pharmaceutical sector, providing regulatory advice to major clients including Pfizer and Bristol-Myers. The team is also well regarded for its experience in negotiations with the Venezuelan government (where associate Daniel Bustos is particularly active). José Valentín González represents clients in constitutional and administrative litigation, as well as regulatory matters, and is described as ‘always able to connect the dots between jurisdictions‘, while José Humberto Frías is knowledgeable in regulatory issues. Francisco Bolinaga, who focuses on advising multinationals and Venezuelan companies on environmental law, and associate Ornella Bernabei, who has expertise in communications and technology law, are also noted contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Energy and natural resources
- Labour and employment
- Public law
- Tax