Franklin Hoet-Linares

Founding Partner

Founding Partner
Patents
Intellectual Property
Litigation and ADR
Franklin Hoet-Linares is a Founding Partner of the firm. His practice covers patents, intellectual property, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, energy and natural resources, and antitrust law.

Biography

He joined the firm Estudio Bentata in 1974, renamed Estudio Bentata Hoet & Asociados three years later. He was a Founding Partner of Bentata Hoet & Asociados in 1979 and today of Hoet & Partners.

In recent years he has devoted part of his professional practice to work as an international mediator and negotiator specializing in intellectual property.

He is an international speaker on a range of legal and business matters, and has presented at congresses and conferences of professional associations in Intellectual Property, Mediation, Mining, Gas and Hydrocarbons across five continents, advocating values such as life, peace, justice and human rights.

Education

Comparative Law (1969-1971)

International Faculty for the Teaching of Comparative Law. Strasbourg – Amsterdam – Caracas.

Doctorate in Comparative Public Finance (1969)

University of Paris, France. Master’s Degree in Financial Economics, Institut National d’Administration Publique, France, 1968.

Attorney at Law (1967)

Universidad Central de Venezuela. Languages: Spanish, English and French. Member of the World Jurist Association and FICPI.