José Luis Herrera V.

PRACTICE AREAS:

Energy Law, International Law, Class Actions, General Corporate Law, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Foreign Investment.

Relevant Operations: 

Energy

Review of the bases, Q&A of the rounds organized by the National Commission of Hydrocarbons and successful qualification of the clients, legal analysis of the bases in open season procedures for capacity placement and pipeline construction, legal and contractual support for offshore maritime operations with suppliers of goods and services, permits with the federal government, analysis of the legal and administrative regime. Modification of electricity permits, implementation of the Network Code. 

Class Actions 

Representing clients and on their own behalf in class actions in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, but with affected parties in Mexico, Latin America and Africa, in which more than $13 million has been recovered to date. Relevant issues: Marine Hose Cartel, Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, Marriott Data Breach, Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation, Reebok EasyTone Shoe & Apparel.

International 

Negotiation of international treaties with the United States of America, IMO, ILO, IOPC Fund. Representative of Mexico. Elected (2014) and re-elected (2017) as auditor of the IOPC Funds (intergovernmental organization with 118 member countries that provides compensation in the event of oil spills). Consultant of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in maritime matters. 

Corporate and M&A

Analysis, risk identification and mitigation alternatives in commercial transactions and civil contracts, contract management, due diligence, establishment of foreign companies in Mexico, corporate aspects and legal support for the development of activities in Mexico.

Education:

– 2015 – PhD in Law (thesis pending), Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.

– 2014 – Master of Laws, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City. 

– 2003-4 – Post-graduate degree in Administrative Law, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.

– 2002 – LL.M. (Master of Laws) in International Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D. C., United States of America.

– 2000 – Post-graduate degree in International Financial Law, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.

– 1999 – Post-graduate degree in International Commercial Law, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City. 

– 1998 – Law Degree, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.

Admissions:

– Mexico

Languages:

– English

– Spanish