Roundtable 2: International Legal Frameworks & Compliance

Navigating a Controlled Market: Legal Boundaries, Deal Structures and the Path to Capital Deployment. As Venezuela reopens to international engagement, law, policy and legal frameworks remain the single most defining constraint on investment, operations and deal-making. While recent easing has created new opportunities, the market continues to operate within a complex, license-based framework where what is permitted, restricted or prohibited is not always clear. This closed-door, invite-only roundtable brings together legal experts, operators, investors and compliance leaders to provide a practical, real-world understanding of how to operate in Venezuela today — what can be done, how deals are being structured, and how to manage legal and regulatory risk in an evolving environment.

With: Juan Carlos Andrade, President, Araya Energy Group; Juan Muller, Business Development Manager, Amicorp Curaçao; Ernesto Forero Fernández de Castro, President, Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH); Cristina Mujica Perret-Gentil, President, Asociación Venezolana de Derecho Marítimo, Senior Lawyer, Firma Internacional Clyde & Co.; Mateo Gómez Jordan, Government Relations Manager, Honeywell; Ambrosio Rojas, Strategic Development & Compliance Manager, Ramps Logistics Limited T&T

Co-chairs: Juan Carlos Pró-Rísquez, Managing Partner, Dentons