JD Supra Venezuela
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- 2019-04-29
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Latest documents
- Venezuela Update: May 11, 2021 (Spanish)
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Holland & Knight's Venezuela Update, produced in conjunction with Venezuela-based firms Tinoco Travieso Planchart & Nuñez and Arca Análisis Económico, provides our clients with pertinent Venezuela information in a timely manner. Please see full Publication below for more information.
- Venezuela Update: April 14, 2021
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Our team is highly qualified to help clients navigate the complex political and business environment in Venezuela. Holland & Knight's Venezuela Update, produced in conjunction with Venezuela-based firms Tinoco Travieso Planchart & Nuñez and Arca Análisis Económico, provides our clients with pertinent Venezuela information in a timely manner. Please see full Publication below for more information.
- Venezuela Update: March 12, 2021
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Our team is highly qualified to help clients navigate the complex political and business environment in Venezuela. Holland & Knight's Venezuela Update, produced in conjunction with Venezuela-based firms Tinoco Travieso Planchart & Nuñez and Arca Análisis Económico, provides our clients with pertinent Venezuela information in a timely manner. Please see full Publication below for more information.
- Venezuela Update: February 18, 2021s (Spanish)
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Our team is highly qualified to help clients navigate the complex political and business environment in Venezuela. Holland & Knight's Venezuela Update, produced in conjunction with Venezuela-based firms Tinoco Travieso Planchart & Nuñez and Arca Análisis Económico, provides our clients with pertinent Venezuela information in a timely manner. Please see full Update below for more information.
- Venezuela Update: February 18, 2021
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Our team is highly qualified to help clients navigate the complex political and business environment in Venezuela. Holland & Knight's Venezuela Update, produced in conjunction with Venezuela-based firms Tinoco Travieso Planchart & Nuñez and Arca Análisis Económico, provides our clients with pertinent Venezuela information in a timely manner. Please see full Update below for more information.
- Venezuela Update: January 19, 2021 (Spanish)
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Our team is highly qualified to help clients navigate the complex political and business environment in Venezuela. Please see full Update below for more information.
- Venezuela Update: January 19, 2021
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Our team is highly qualified to help clients navigate the complex political and business environment in Venezuela. Please see full Update below for more information.
- Bar against dismissals
On December 31, 2020, the president of the republic enacted Decree N° 4,414 (Decree on Bar Against Dismissals) in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GORBV) N° 6,611 Special.
- Dentons Flashpoint - December 11, 2020
In This Edition: ECB announces new stimulus as the EU settles dispute over its €1.8 trillion budget. Morocco will normalize relations with Israel as the US shifts its Western Sahara policy. Sanofi and GSK delay vaccine launch due to an insufficient immune response in older people. A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state. This past Sunday, the government of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared victory in the country’s parliamentary elections. The results of the opposition-boycotted elections have solidified Maduro’s control over all political institutions and dealt a massive blow to Juan Guaido’s oppositionist movement. Please see full article below for more information.
- (Another) Venezuelan Executive Indicted in a $160 Million Money-Laundering and Corruption Scheme
On November 25, 2020, Natalino D’Amato (“D’Amato”), a Venezuelan executive, was charged in an 11-count indictment with allegedly laundering $160 million between 2013 and 2017. The indictment, filed in the Southern District of Florida, includes one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, four counts of international money laundering, three counts of promotional money laundering, and three counts of engaging in transactions involving criminally derived property. It is the latest episode in the enforcement campaign of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) against alleged corruption involving Venezuela in general, and Venezuela’s state-owned and controlled energy company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PDVSA”) in particular.
Featured documents
- Venezuela Post-Chavez- More of the Same INTERPOL Abuse?
Now that Nicolas Maduro is the President of Venezuela, most hopes of political reform in Venezuela have been dashed, at least for the next six years......
- Venezuela: New Emergency Program Forces Employers to Supply their Workforce, on Demand, to Benefit State-Owned Entities
Venezuela’s Ministry of Labor has enacted the establishment of a forced labor program, which will require public and private sector employers to supply their workers as “temporary loans” to State-owned companies to boost the country’s economic development in essential industries, such as...
- Venezuela Announces Increases to the Minimum Wage and Meal Benefit
Through Decrees N° 3.068 and 3.069, published in the Official Gazette N° 41.231 on September 7, 2017, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro increased the monthly minimum wage by 40% and "the meal benefit” calculation base to 21 tax units1 per day. As we previously reported in May, the meal...
- OFAC Imposes Comprehensive Sanctions on Venezuela’s State Oil Company, PdVSA
OFAC adds PdVSA to its sanctions list and simultaneously issues general licenses temporarily allowing certain transactions and activities involving PdVSA. On January 28, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA),...
- Venezuelan Supreme Court Rules "State of Exception and Economic Emergency" as Legal
The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela declared last month the constitutionality of Decree 3,844, issued on May 10, 2019, by means of which the government of Nicolás Maduro enacted a State of Exception and Economic Emergency throughout the country. Four factors were taken into...
- EU expands its sanctions against Venezuela
On 29 June 2020, the Council of the European Union have included eleven officials in the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to asset freezing measures and a travel ban....
- Venezuela Employers Beware: New Regulations Establish Additional Wage and Hour Requirements
As of May 7, 2013, employers in Venezuela must comply with the new wage and hour law established one year ago under Venezuela's employment law reform act, known as the Organic Law of Labor and Workers1 (the "LOTTT", for its Spanish acronym)....
- Miembros de los Consejos Productivos de los Trabajadores gozan de protección especial contra despidos
El 5 de diciembre de 2016, el Ministerio del Trabajo de Venezuela publicó la Resolución N° 10.002 (en adelante "la Resolución") que garantiza una protección especial contra despidos (conocida como inamovilidad) en beneficio de los trabajadores que integran los Consejos Productivos de...
- Venezuela Anuncia Aumento del Salario Mínimo y del "Cestaticket Socialista"
Mediante los Decretos N° 3.068 y N° 3.069 publicados en Gaceta Oficial N° 41,231, de fecha 7 de Septiembre de 2017, el Presidente Nicolás Maduro aumentó el salario mínimo mensual en un cuarenta por ciento (40%) y ajusta la base de cálculo del beneficio de alimentación (denominado “Cestaticket...
- U.S. imposes new sanctions targeting state-owned Venezuelan oil company PdVSA in effort to topple Maduro regime
On 28 January 2019, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA) as a Specially Designated National (SDN) for operating in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13850. This action follows...