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Mr. Mendoza is a founding partner of Pellegrini & Mendoza and a member of our corporate practice. Mr. Mendoza has broad experience in representing public and private companies, based in the U.S. and abroad, in a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters, ranging from early stage business formation and development to highly complex securities offerings in the public U.S. capital markets. He has practiced law both in the U.S. and abroad with small and large firms. This multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdiction approach has allowed him to gain a comprehensive understanding of a broad range of business matters and to develop a practical approach to solving legal issues. Luis was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He received his lawyer degree (abogado) in 1995 from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela; and an LL.M. degree in 1998 from the University of Chicago Law School. Form October 2003 to July 2004 he taught the course “Fundamentals of Commercial Law” at the Metropolitana University School of Law in Caracas, Venezuela; he is the author of a white paper on Recent Development in Oil & Gas Investments in Venezuela for the Center for International Legal Studies, Kitzbühel, Austria, March 2005; a white paper analysis on the “Pacto Comisorio for the 21st Century” presented at the Commercial Law Symposium honring Dr. Alfredo Morles Hernández at the Carabobo State Bar Association, June 2005; and is the author of the study “Contemporary Analysis of Commercial Guaranties in Venezuela”, published by the Academy of Political and Social Sciences of Venezuela as part of the Commemoration for the Centennial Anniversary of the 1904 Commercial Code of Venezuela (Anauco Ediciones, C.A. 2004). Luis was a senior associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York (1998-99; 2005-2009) and a senior associate with Rodríguez & Mendoza, Caracas Venezuela (1995-97; 2001-05); Foreign Legal Counsel with Akerman Senterfitt (1999-2001).
