Impact on litigation from Venezeula Takeover I'm doing a story on the impact of the U.S. operations in Venezuela on the Texas legal industry, which may see an increase in litigation. Litigation could stem from Houston-based companies waging sophisticated, multi-billion-dollar international litigation campaigns to recover assets, potentially ending up with control of major U.S. refining infrastructure in the process. Around 60 arbitration proceedings have been recorded against Venezuela since the 2000s, with total liabilities worth estimated at $20 billion to 30 billion, according to the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia. I'm looking for legal experts, professors and Venezuela experts who can talk about the seizure of the Venezuelan oil infrastructure assets in the U.S. or elsewhere and what potential litigation might result from the U.S. actions abroad.