D'Empaire

Labor and Employment

Partner

Victorino has extensive experience advising clients on labor matters and public affairs.  He is ranked as a leading labor expert in Venezuela. Before joining D’Empaire in 2012, Victorino worked as founding partner at Bolinaga Levy Marquez & Canova from 1998 to 2012.

Victorino’s notable experience includes:

• Representing Chevron in various labor issues concerning its Venezuelan operations.
• Acting for Fibranova (Masisa) in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements concerning 800 employees and approximately 3000 independent contractors.
• Advising Citibank in Venezuela in the transfer of four top-level executives to various offshore operations.
• Advising Lan Chile in labor matters concerning its workforce in Venezuela.
• Advising CNPC-BGP in labor matters regarding the oil industry collective bargaining agreement.
• Advising Guardian in labor matters concerning its workforce in Venezuela.
• Representing Pepsicola de Venezuela in the negotiation of its collective bargaining agreement.
• Representing Ferroatlantica de Venezuela in the negotiation of its collective bargaining agreement.
• Advising Siemens in matters related to executive compensation and expatriate employees.
• Advising Bank of America in matters related to executive compensation and expatriate employees.
• Representing Thomson Reuters as Venezuelan counsel in its acquisition of Legis.
• Representing Xignux Group in its acquisition of Cables de Energia y de Telecomunicaciones S.A.
• Representing Falck in its acquisition of the Venezuelan subsidiary of the EMIG Group.
• Representing Soldexa in its purchase of Comelven.
• Advising Bayer in connection with its contributions to the social security system.
• Advising several multinational companies in matters related to the downsize or winding up of their Venezuelan operations.

Victorino is currently ranked as “Band 1” by Chambers & Partners (2019 Venezuela Labor & Employment Rankings) and as a “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 (2018 Venezuela Labor & Employment Rankings).

English and Spanish

Bar Asociation of the Capital District, Caracas, Venezuela.

He received a J.D. cum laude from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in 1991 and an LLM from Harvard University in 1994.