Manage legal and ethical compliance with international corporate regulations and business practices.
Apply international private law in business transactions encompassing interactions with individual and corporate stakeholders as well as with governments and public sectors.
Provide professional support in contract negotiations and building corporate relations.
Advice in compliance with Latin America government regulations and legislation impacting overseas policies and transactions.
Consultancy in planning, monitoring and executing construction and natural gas projects throughout Latin America.
Preparation and configuration of proposals aimed at integrating subsequent solutions to international corporate management standards in the construction and natural gas fields.
Develop applicable managerial models whose methodologies are schematically tailored following a three-dimensional approach based upon purpose, rule and outcome.
Provide corporate consultancy in the construction and natural gas industries to domestic and international companies.
Provide international corporate advice to US companies seeking to enter in the Latin American market.
Edwar Lucena is an attorney at law from Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho University), graduating in 2002 in Venezuela. He began his career in the law firm ASESORES LABORALES & ASOCIADOS, one of the leading law firms in the eastern region of Venezuela, which provides legal services to important international corporations such as TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION in Venezuela (Toyota de Venezuela), among others.
His career in the corporate law field began with one of the most reputed construction companies in Venezuela, VENEZOLANA DE PAVIMENTOS Y CANTERAS (VEPACA).
VEPACA is a corporation dedicated to the civil work construction industry, roads and services. Its holdings include: CORPORACION AGROINDUSTRIAL CANTERA EL YACAL (EL YACAL QUARRY AGROINDUSTRIAL CORPORATION,) PREMEZCLADOS MELEMILCA (MELEMILCA PREMIXED), TRANSPORTE DELTANA (DELTANA TRANSPORT), CENTRO COMERCIAL CUMANA PLAZA (CUMANA PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER), and CENTRO COMERCIAL MM PLAZA (MM PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER).
As a Corporate Legal Executive, Mr. Lucena has been responsible for establishing guidelines in labor, commercial, tax and international business law due to his exceptional understanding of the construction industry and the effective designing of corporate strategies. He has successfully negotiated innumerable collective agreements with unions, achieving a significant positive impact on the employment rates and national economic growth.
In this capacity, Mr. Lucena has held the responsibility of managing relationships and contract execution of construction and natural gas projects as well as he has performed a leading role for distinguished organizations. He has a solid experience in duties which include, among others, planning, financial and statutory compliance, conducting negotiations with contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and stakeholders.
He has been the head of the corporate management department in several demanding projects. He has been at the helm of a select staff of multidisciplinary professionals, who under his guidance, were instructed through a permanent situation room which has served as the control center for each project's execution.
This management and compliance approach implemented by Mr. Lucena has allowed him to consequently create an original managerial model considering intrinsic particularities of the very project, personnel and expected outcome in terms of the infrastructure public uses and benefits.
Mr. Lucena has a wide valuable expertise in essential corporate responsibilities in Latin America such as: compliance with international regulations, negotiation of contracts, budget control, compliance verification with construction regulations, monitoring estimates of contractors and subcontractors, perform negotiations with unions, suppliers and stakeholders among others.
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