DENTONS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Partner / Mexico City

Chambers Latin America 2022 has awarded Dentons 125 quality rankings across the Latin America region. Together with the Chambers Global and Brazil guides, the leading legal publisher now recognizes Dentons offices across Brazil, Chile, the Caribbean, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Bolivia's previously announced combination Guevara & Gutierrez.

Job Titles:

• Founding Partner of the Monterrey
• Office Managing Partner / Monterrey
• Office Managing Partner, Monterrey Monterrey
• Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey

Gregorio G. Canales is the founding partner of the Monterrey office and has extensive experience in different areas of law such as corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border financing, complex international transactions, contract manufacturing (IMMEX), trade, energy and real estate. Mr. Canales has been a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (EGADE), Assistant Professor in International Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and has participated as member of the editorial board of the business section of the Grupo Reforma newspapers.

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Counselor
• Partner
• Partner / Mexico City

Joaquin Contreras is an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law, admitted in Mexico. He received his J.D. degree from Universidad Iberoamericana Law School, and his LL.M. degree in International Economic Law from the University of Houston. He worked as a foreign attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. Prior to joining private practice in 2007, Mr. Contreras held different positions in the public sector, including In-House Counsel of Petroleos Mexicanos in Houston and New York; Chief of Staff of the Foreign Investment Department of the Ministry of Commerce; Regional Legal Administrator on the North Centre Region of the Tax Service Administration; and Administrator of the Customs Office of the Port of Altamira, the largest industrial port on the east coast of Mexico. Mr. Contreras' legal areas of expertise include foreign trade/customs, commercial transactions, foreign investment, administrative litigation, and international taxation. His practice concentrates in relevant economic sectors such as the manufacturing sector, supply chains and logistics, ports, fuels and liquids, and petrochemicals. He has been a professor of Private International Law, and International Commercial Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana Law School. He regularly participates as speaker in different forums discussing nearshoring, trade, and foreign investment topics. Experience ForeignTrade/Customs

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Contributor
• Partner / Mexico City

Mr. Jimenez is a regular contributor of articles for various publications in Mexico, Europe and North America, and an active speaker on topics of energy, foreign investment and legal aspects affecting international business in Mexico.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Attorney and Counselor at Law
• Member of the Energy Council of the Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission
• Partner / Mexico City
• Partner, Mexico City Mexico City

Rogelio López-Velarde is an Attorney and Counselor at Law, admitted in Mexico in 1988, and in the State of New York in 1991. With over 30 years of experience, Rogelio López-Velarde leads Dentons' energy and infrastructure practice groups in Mexico, focusing his practice on energy, international business transactions, infrastructure, corporate, M&A and antitrust. His experience includes representing major stakeholders (including developers, lenders, and investment funds) in multiple landmark transactions and projects of the Mexican energy and infrastructure industries. Rogelio López-Velarde held various positions at Pemex from 1988 to 1993, including In-House Counsel in Houston, Texas, In-House Counsel in New York, N.Y. and Head of the International Legal Department of Pemex, he was the Chairman of the first Energy Committee of the Mexican Bar Association, and he is also former President for the Latin America Chapter of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and former Chairman of the International Practice Committee of the U.S. Institute for Energy Law, 2010 - 2012. Mr. López-Velarde has been an active speaker on numerous occasions and has extensively published articles on international law in Mexico, U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America. He is a member of the Mexican Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Mexican Academy of Private International Law, amongst other associations. He was the Mexican representative of the Editorial Board of the Oil & Gas Law and Taxation Review, the Oil & Gas Committee of the International Bar Association, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association. In 2017, Mr. Lopez-Velarde was appointed as member of the Energy Council of the Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission.