JOSÉ ANNICCHIARICO VILLAGRÁN

Attorney graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Caracas, 1995. Ph. D from the University of Paris, Panthéon Assas (Paris II), Paris, 2021, granted with first class honors for his research on the subject of Law of Contract and Damage Mitigation. Has a Master’s Degree in Corporate Law (1998), a Master’s Degree in Private Law (1999), both from University of Paris Panthéon Assas (Paris II), Paris. A Master’s Degree in Competition Law from Kings College of London University, London, 2002. He worked as a foreign lawyer at the firm Holland & Knight, in New York, between years 2002 and 2003. He is a professor by national competitive examination at the Law Faculty of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), where he teaches private law in the contracts and liability subjects since 2004. He was associate professor of commercial law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) between years 1996 and 1997 in the areas of trading companies and he currently teaches contract and tort law at that same University. He fills the position of General Secretary of the Venezuelan Section of the Henri Capitant Association. He has been invited as lecturer to numerous national and international conferences; has conducted several studies and research; and published many articles in private and commercial law. He has a wide experience advising national and international investors in the fields of mining, insurance, reinsurance, distribution and free competition, national and international estate planning, merges and acquisitions, international financing. He has a successful practice in complex negotiations and alternative conflict resolution of civil and commercial disputes both nationally and internationally. He is fluent in English and French.