Travieso Evans Arria Rengel & Paz celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2003. Its originator was Dr. José María Travieso Paul, who associated with a New York law firm specializing in Latin American mining and petroleum law founded by Edward Shuster, who was at that time considered the greatest US authority on Latin American Law.
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The firm originally specialized in petroleum law and branched into mining law in representing U.S. Steel in the development of the famous Cerro Bolívar iron mountain complex and its Puerto Ordaz project. Although the firm continues to have an extremely prestigious portfolio of petroleum clients, it has, for the last 60 years or more, been just as strong in general corporate, tax, labor, litigation and environmental areas. It has also created and affiliate, TEHAR, s.c., which offers all services related to the registration and management of intellectual property.
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The firm maintains offices in Venezuela in the cities of Caracas, Valencia, Maturín and Puerto La Cruz. It is also associated with other law firms in Latin America and Europe and is a member of the prestigious "Club de Abogados." The law firm corresponds in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Our firm is organized following state-of-the-art globalized stan- dards for practice of law, with all attorneys dedicating their full time to the firm. The firm consists of 44 lawyers and several legal assistants. Today the firm has a professional and administrative staff of over one hundred.
Although Travieso Evans Arria Rengel & Paz is considered a large firm for Venezuelan standards, we still view ourselves as a growing firm, although we are extremely careful in our selection of new attorneys. Many of our lawyers have completed graduate work in prestigious law schools from the United States and Europe, such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Complutense of Madrid, Université Paris, New York University, University of California and Tulane, as well as specialized postgraduate studies at the most recognized universities in Venezuela.
