Ramón Andrade

Ramón Andrade is the head of the energy, natural resources, banking and finance, M&A, and securities practices at Ponte Andrade & Casanova. He advises operators, investors, and lenders on major energy and mining projects, including large-scale mining projects in Venezuela and Colombia; oil and gas upstream, midstream and downstream operations; and project and energy finance transactions. His current practice centers on the 2026 Ley Orgánica de Minas and the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) general license framework governing the sector’s reopening. He has co-led cross-border M&A in the mining, oil and gas, and infrastructure sectors across Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico, and has advised on the restructuring of secured and unsecured loans across Latin America. Ramón was an equity partner at Norton Rose Fulbright from 2000 to 2017 and Director of Special Assets & Restructuring at CAF (Development Bank of Latin America), where he managed a USD 300 million portfolio of mining, energy, and infrastructure assets. He is recognized by Chambers & Partners, IFLR1000 (Leading Lawyer, Energy and Infrastructure) and The Legal 500 Latin America, and is a member of PDAC and of the International Bar Association’s Mining Law Committee. He holds an LLM in Financial and Tax Law from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and a TRIUM Global Executive MBA (NYU Stern, LSE, and HEC Paris).

Ramón Andrade is the head of the energy, natural resources, banking and finance, M&A, and securities practices at Ponte Andrade & Casanova. He advises operators, investors, and lenders on major energy and mining projects, including large-scale mining projects in Venezuela and Colombia; oil and gas upstream, midstream and downstream operations; and project and energy finance transactions. His current practice centers on the 2026 Ley Orgánica de Minas and the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) general license framework governing the sector’s reopening. He has co-led cross-border M&A in t...