RICARDO INDACOCHEA (Senior Partner)
rindacochea@indacochea.com.bo

PRACTICE AREAS: Arbitration; Banking; Commercial; Contract; Corporate; Foreign Investment; Immigration; Oil & Gas (Hydrocarbons Law;Transportation; Regulatory Law; Labor Law; Project Finance.

Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (New York University, United States)

Founding partner of the Firm in 1991. Dr. Indacochea’s counseling covers mainly the corporate/commercial area, and hydrocarbon law as well. He had a major role counseling the foreign companies who built the gas fpipeline in Brazil, later being named the external legal counsel of the Bolivian company which transports gas to said country, period during which he participated directly in the drafting of the agreements which gave place to the gas transportation contracts between the buyer, the carrier, and the transporter. He also counseled the most important financing projects for national and international companies with lending institutions such as the Andean Development Corporation (ADC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), among others.

In the other hand, Dr. Indacochea was an invited speaker to various International Conferences taken place in different countries hosted by the International Bar Association, International Law Institute and the Assocication of International Petroleum Negotiators. Currently, Dr. Indacochea is a permanent Director for the Bolivian Hydrocarbon Chamber, and Arbitrator for the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce (CAINCO) Mediation and Arbitration Center and the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC).

BIOGRAPHY

Born Lima, Peru, 1953; admitted, 1975, Peru, Catholic University of Peru (J.D., summa cum laude, 1975; Lawyer in Peru, summa cum laude, 1976; Lawyer in Bolivia, 1993); New York University (Master of Comparative Jurisprudence, 1977). Associate of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood LLP, New York (1977-1978). Author: "Contractual Liability in Aviation Law," Lima, 1976. Professor: Labor Law, Private University of Santa Cruz (UPSA), 1992-1995; Corporate Law, Bolivian Catholic University (HIID-Harvard University), Bolivia 2002. Bolivian Counsel for Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline Project. Board Director of Bolivia Hydrocarbon Chamber. Invited Lecturer: International Bar Association 2003, 2005; International Law Institute, 2003; Association of International Petroleum Negotiators 2004,2006. Arbitrator: Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce (CAINCO); Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC). Named "Number One Practitioner in Bolivia" for Oil and Gas legal expertise, The International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers (2005, 2006).

MEMBER: International Bar Association; Peruvian and Bolivian Bar Associations, and Bar Association of Santa Cruz.

LANGUAGES: English and Spanish.