Latin America

Energy

Stephen Zamora | The Center for U.S. and Mexican Law

If they held a legislative Olympics, the Mexican Congress would surely win the gold medal. In recent years, the Mexican Congress has passed more major law reforms and more constitutional amendments than most countries will see in a generation. Legal reform has become so habitual that the Mexican...

Energy

Steven P. Otillar | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: Please describe your practice, and tell us why Mexico is high on your radar screen. Otillar: My practice focuses on domestic and international energy transactional work, with an emphasis on upstream acquisitions, divestitures and development. I have represented energy companies and...

Energy

Miriam Grunstein | Baker Institute, Rice University

In December 2013, Mexico’s Congress approved constitutional reforms to the energy sector that liberalize the entire value chain of the hydrocarbon industry, open a wholesale electricity market, and propose a new institutional architecture for energy regulatory agencies. While the new...