Economic Criminal Law

We provide legal counsel to companies, shareholders, executives, and legal representatives in preventing and managing criminal risks associated with their corporate and economic activities in Venezuela. Our practice focuses on fact-based legal analysis, issuance of legal opinions, and technical defense in the context of potential investigations or criminal proceedings, with emphasis on Economic Criminal Law.

We offer specialized advisory services related to:

  • Banking Sector Institutions Law.

  • Environmental Criminal Law.

  • Occupational Health & Safety Law (LOPCYMAT).

  • Organic Tax Code.

  • Anti-Corruption Law.

  • Law Against Organized Crime & Terrorism Financing.

  • Telecommunications Law.

  • Copyright Law.

  • Securities Market Law, among others.

In criminal procedure matters, we represent clients throughout all stages of both ordinary and special proceedings: investigation, pre-trial phase, trial, enforcement, and damage recovery claims. Our assistance includes handling ordinary and extraordinary appeals, including criminal cassation petitions.

We have extensive experience in litigation before criminal courts, Public Prosecutor’s offices, and criminal investigation agencies. Our practice merges legal rigor, corporate insight, and preventive strategy to safeguard our clients’ legal interests in highly sensitive contexts. We also support companies and their governance bodies in designing and implementing criminal compliance programs and corporate risk prevention strategies in alignment with Venezuelan legal and regulatory standards.