PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Kathleen has 4 years of experience. Her practice focuses on highly-regulated industrial and commercial sectors. She provides legal advice in Constitutional and Administrative Law. Most recently, she has focused her practice on matters related to White Collar, Compliance & Business Ethics, particularly anti corruption, corporate crime, cartel, unfair competition and tax crimes.ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- Master´s in Constitutional Law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela, 2019 (Pending).
- Diploma in Oil & Gas Law from Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela. 2018.
- Diploma in Human Rights from Universidad Monteávila, Venezuela, 2015 .
- Law Degree from Universidad Monteávila, Venezuela, 2015 (Magna Cum Laude).
MEMBERSHIPS
- Venezuelan Arbitration Association
- Bar Association of the Capital District and State of Miranda
LANGUAGES
- English
- Spanish
AREAS OF PRACTICE & INDUSTRIES
♦ Regulatory
♦ Compliance
♦ Foreign Currency Exchange Control
♦ Food
♦ Automotive
♦ Banking and Finance
♦ Oil and Gas
EXPERIENCE
- Corporate regulations, administrative contracts, public services, currency exchange.
- Prosecution of cases at the SUNDDE (Venezuelan Superintendency for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights) and the SENIAT (Venezuela´s tax and customs agency).
- Development and execution of compliance policies and due diligences.
- White Collar & Corporate Crime investigations.
- Prosecution of civil, administrative and tax cases at judicial, administrative and tax agencies and tribunals.
- Analysis of banking and consumer protection regulations, and development and execution of strategies for compliance and/or to avoid negative impacts in our client’s businesses and reputation.
- Administrative and environmental litigation.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Most of her academic activity since 2015 has been dedicated to postgraduate curses in renowned national and international universities, such as Universidad Monteávila and Universidad Católica Andres Bello for the Constitutional, Administrative and Commercial Law programs.
- Workshop on Leadership & Persuasion / Workshop Model Negotiation at Harvard University: CIC Cambridge International Consulting.
- II, III, IV International Congress Of Constitutional Procedural Law, Constitutional Justice in the Social State of Law & I, II Congress of Administrative Law: UMA.
- Constitutional and Protection of Human Rights: UMAxx.
- I Conference on Alternative of Dispute Resolution.
- The Price Control System and the LPJ: Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
RECOGNITIONS
- Universidad Monteávila, mention Magna Cum Laude, Law Degree.
- VIII Universidad Monteávila Model of United Nations (UMUM).
- V La Universidad del Zulia Model of United Nations (LUZMUN).
PUBLICATIONS
- “The footprint of Law in Literature, Venezuela´s National Assembly function of control, and Democracy as a Human Right” [“La Huella del Derecho en la Literatura, Función Contralora de la AN y Democracia como Derecho Humano”]. Law and Society Magazine N° 11, 14 and 15 edited by Universidad Monteávila.