Practice area
We advise developers, operators, investors, lenders, and service providers across Bolivia’s energy value chain. Our multidisciplinary practice supports conventional and renewable projects through development, licensing, contracting, financing, transactions, regulatory change, operations, and disputes.
Overview
C.R. & F. Rojas is highly regarded as a full-service energy and hydrocarbon practice. We advise our clients on corporate transactions, market entry, risk management, and how to carry out their activities sustainably.
We maintain specialists across energy market regulation, environmental law, technology, intellectual property, project finance, procurement and construction, commercial agreements, and dispute resolution.
The practice represents domestic and international investors, lenders, operators, traders, and contractors in relation to the financing, development, and execution of energy and infrastructure projects in electricity, gas and oil, and renewables.
Exploration, extraction, and generation
Transportation
Distribution
Commercialization
Project finance and lender counsel
Procurement, construction, and EPC contracts
Energy market regulation and tariff matters
Dispute resolution in the energy sector
Owner. Joined the firm in 1971. Harvard LL.M. Fifty-four years advising foreign capital entering Bolivia.
Partner. Member of the firm since 1998. Aviation, banking and finance, energy, insurance and telecom.
Managing Partner. Chicago LL.M. Corporate, energy, hydrocarbons and mining.
Partner. Heads the Mining and Environmental Law departments. Over thirty years advising the largest foreign investors in Bolivia.
Partner. Civil, corporate and commercial law, and government contracts.
Partner. Cross-border transactions, M&A, private equity, and the structuring of foreign direct investment. Qualified in New York.
31 October 2026
The 2026 Legal 500 Bolivia rankings list the firm in Banking and finance, Corporate and M&A, Dispute resolution, Energy and natural resources and Labour and employment, and highlight six of our lawyers.
27 October 2026
Supreme Decree No. 5755 allows natural gas and LNG imports for own consumption or power generation. We examine the pending authorisation rules, network access priorities and restrictions on transfers to third parties.
14 October 2026
Supreme Decree No. 5750 of 13 October 2026 rewrites the formulas used to update maximum electricity prices and tariffs, to cushion them against exchange-rate swings. It sets no new tariffs, but changes how and when the dollar reaches the bill.
La Paz · Santa Cruz · Cochabamba
