Oscar Benavides | Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano Abogados | WSG

Practice Expertise

  • Corporate and Business
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mining
  • Project Finance

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate and Business
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mining
  • Project Finance

WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Mining Group - Group Leader
  • Private Equity Group - Member

Profile

Oscar Benavides specializes in mining law, mining projects finance, and mergers & acquisitions.

His practice focuses on financing contracts, acquisition, sale and joint venture agreements of companies and mining projects.

Oscar has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and executing exploration, joint venture and mining project investment contracts, as well as in acquisition operations for said projects. He counsels clients on corporate and commercial issues in general.

He regularly teaches mining law in top level Peruvian universities and is a member of the board of the Canada Peru Chamber of Commerce.

Bar Admissions
Lima Bar Association
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Instituto de Derecho de Mineria, Petroleo y Energia

Education
Universidad de Lima, Lawyer summa cum laude (2000)
University of Denver (USA), Master in Natural Resources and Environmental Law (2006)
Jan M. and Marjorie G. Laitos Scholarship in Natural Resources

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate and Business
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mining
  • Project Finance

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