Gustavo RODRIGUEZ RANGEL

Corporate architecture, product development, client relations, legal matters.

Management and direction of all legal matters, including litigation, involving the zone’s entities; implementation of internal procedures within the zone’s entities, mainly: budget reporting, financial, tax, legal, personnel and safety, in coordination with HQ; risk analysis of all new investment projects; Operational supervision of the company’s activities in Spain including its representation in Boards of Directors.

International development activities: contractual architecture, partnerships, JV, etc. with foreign entities.

Tax harmonization between HQ and its foreign subsidiaries. Watch over the implementation of tax directives issued by HQ; tax planning.

I ran the the Legal Dept. (corporate, labor, commercial) for the Latin American region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela); management of outside counsel.

Provide advise to foreign companies on their investments in Venezuela. Setting up the Tax Practice: tax planning, advise and litigation.

ESSEC & Mannhein Executive MBA Program.

Audited the program "DEA Droit des affaires".

International, business, corporate and tax law.

Economic theory, general taxation principles, direct and indirect taxes, other types of taxation, tariffs and custom duties, tax litigation, tax planning.

General 5-year academic pensum to become a certified legal professional.