Prof. Dr. Mauricio Becerra de la Roca

Legal advice to clients in corporate law, project finance, international business law, mergers & acquisitions, antitrust, administrative law and regulatory practice (hydrocarbons, electricity, telecommunications, water and transportation), banking law, represent clients in judicial, arbitration and administrative matters.

Legal advice to clients in corporate law, project finance, hydrocarbons and natural resources law, administrative law, mergers & acquisitions, banking law in the city of Santa Cruz, represented clients in judicial and administrative matters.

Consultant in charge of drafting a new legal regime for controlling the production, import - export, distribution and use of precursor chemicals that are diverted towards the production of illicit drugs.

In charge of the supervision and administration of joint venture contracts signed between YPFB and foreign oil companies; legal advise to the Vice-presidency of Administration of Contracts and Supervision; management of the legal department.

Senior attorney in charge of drafting Administrative Resolutions of petitions of revocation (recursos jerárquicos) that decide regulatory issues formulated by regulated companies and clients against other Superintendencies of SIRESE (Hydrocarbons, Electricity, Telecommunications, Transportation, and Water Sanitation).

In charge of the regulatory processes of grant of rights (Concessions, Licenses, Provisional Licenses, Use of Goods of Public Domain and Servitudes) drafted contracts, legal reports, Administrative Resolutions and contracts of Adaptation to the Law of Electricity. Also drafted Administrative Resolutions of petitions of revocation (recursos de revocatoria).

Reviewed, drafted and negotiated banking contracts, promissory notes, import-export, issuance of guarantees and banking endorsements. Drafted model contracts for new banking products and services. Prepared legal briefs and advised in all legal matters of the institution. Conducted civil lawsuits to recover lines of credit, loans and mortgages.

Activities and Societies: Fellow of the Institute of international Economic Law (IIEL) directed by Professor John H. Jackson; did research about GATT, GATS, TBT, SPS, Anti-dumping and Agriculture agreements and interpretation of decisions of WTO panels, the WTO Appellate Body and other WTO bodies.