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Castor Gonzalez-Escobar

Senior Adviser | Venezuela and Mercosur

/ Profile

Castor is a Venezuelan attorney with over three decades of experience advising international companies, investors, and foreign counsel on corporate, regulatory, and cross-border business matters in Venezuela and Latin America.

He regularly supports international stakeholders navigating the legal, operational, and structural realities of doing business in Venezuela and the Mercosur region, including matters involving foreign investment, local regulatory coordination, commercial structuring, governance, and trusted local execution in complex environments.

Alongside his broader advisory practice, Castor has extensive experience in intellectual property, brand protection, and regulatory enforcement matters across the region, including anti-counterfeiting strategies, investigations, border measures, and related enforcement proceedings.

He holds an LL.M. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

Castor is an active member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), where he currently serves on the Latin America and Caribbean Anti-Counterfeiting Committee and previously served on the Free Trade Areas Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), where he previously served as Secretary of the Anti-Piracy Committee and as Chair of the Fashion Law Committee.

Fluent in Spanish and English.

/ Specialist areas

  • Venezuela and Latin America market advisory
  • Corporate law and governance
  • Foreign investment structuring and regulatory compliance
  • Cross-border transactions and strategic legal advisory
  • Intellectual property and brand protection
  • Anti-counterfeiting and regulatory enforcement
  • Commercial disputes and unfair competition matters

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