DESMOND DILLON MC LOUGHLIN

Attorney graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, 1990. Obtained a Master’s Degree in Comparative Jurisprudence (MCJ), New York University, 1993. Has a Management Course for Attorneys at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA). He was a partner with the law firm of Baumeister & Brewer. Mr. Dillon is an expert in business and corporate law and also has extensive expertise as a consultant for local and foreign companies in the areas of business law, insurance and labor law, as well as in negotiations and contracts, both between individuals and between individuals and the public sector. He has participated in important bid tenders and privatizations and in business restructuring. He has coordinated the strategy of scale litigations and arbitrations for national and foreign clients. Among his professional activities are consulting services for foreign investment in Venezuela. He is a member of the Venezuelan Association of Executives (AVE, acronym in Spanish) and was secretary of the association's Best Practices Executive Council

He is member of the Arbitration Committee of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VenAmCham). He has attended international seminars to talk about free trade and safeguards. He assisted on behalf of the AVE in the revision and drafting of the Andean Corporative Governance Code boosted by the Andean Development Corporation. He is a lecturer on Corporative Governance. He is fluent in English.