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
Senior Partner. 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, from both offices.
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.
16 August 2026
Supreme Decree No. 5676 introduces a Reference Price for Diesel sold to Direct Clients, GRACOS and Direct Users, while keeping fixed prices for other consumers.
6 July 2026
Private operators may now import diesel and gasoline directly. The decree ends a long-standing state monopoly on fuel importation and creates a licensing route for private participation.
31 March 2026
A recalibrated bilateral relationship, and the commercial openings it creates.
La Paz · Santa Cruz · Cochabamba
