Agustín Ceballos

Buchalter (US)

Agustín Ceballos is a Mexican attorney licensed to practice in California and a co-managing partner of the Latin America Practice at Buchalter, based in the firm's San Diego office. A native of Hermosillo, Sonora, he focuses on international tax law, cross-border estate planning, and tax litigation, advising clients on both sides of the Mexico–U.S. border.

Alejandro García

Alvarez & Marsal (MX) 

Alejandro García Seimandi is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Mexico City, where he leads the Global Trade practice. He specializes in tariff, trade, and customs matters, including free trade agreements, tariff classification, customs valuation, maquila operations, antidumping duties, and health regulations, with more than twenty-five years advising clients across aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical, mining, and energy industries. He served as a panelist under Chapter XIX of NAFTA and on the tariff classification council of the Mexican Tax Administration Service. He earned an LLB from the Escuela Libre de Derecho.

Alissa M. Nann

Foley & Lardner (US)

Alissa M. Nann is Of Counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP in New York, focusing on corporate bankruptcy and restructuring. She represents parties on all sides of a bankruptcy — debtors, creditors' committees, secured lenders, and purchasers of distressed assets — in chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts, and handles cross-border insolvency litigation, including chapter 15 cases and related asset tracing and recovery. She has been selected by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers, and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Bryan Elwood 

Cobden Law (US)

Bryan Elwood is Managing Partner at Cobden Law, a firm specializing in international trade, intellectual property, and compliance, and President of Cobden Customs and Trade Solutions, a customs brokerage. He previously served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer of the world's second-largest chemicals distributor, leading a global legal and compliance team across more than seventy countries. Earlier he worked for the government of Mexico on its NAFTA negotiating team and as Chief Trade Counsel at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, DC.

Carlos E. Martínez

Basham, Ringe & Correa (MX)

Carlos E. Martínez-Betanzos is a partner at Basham, Ringe y Correa in Mexico City, where he heads the Dispute Resolution practice. With more than twenty years of experience in Mexico City and New York, he handles international commercial and investor-state arbitration, cross-border and domestic litigation, bankruptcy disputes, and public international law matters. He is recognized by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, Lexology, and Leaders League. He holds a law degree from ITAM and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University.

Carlos Ramos Miranda

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader (MX)

Carlos Ramos Miranda is a partner at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in Mexico City, with more than thirty years in corporate and transactional law covering M&A, insurance, infrastructure, energy, and regulatory compliance. He advises international and national oil companies on host government contracts and oil and gas transactions, and serves on insurance company boards. Consistently ranked by Chambers and Partners in Insurance, Corporate/M&A, and Energy, he has taught at Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Anáhuac, and ITAM. He holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Cate Klemec

Evidencity (US)

Cate Klemec is Director of Growth at Evidencity, where she leads business development, client relationships, and market strategy across Latin America and the Global South. With nearly a decade of experience in the region, she specializes in pre-sanctioned data intelligence, enhanced due diligence, and supply chain investigations, with particular expertise in Latin America's non-aligned states and Chinese and Russian business activity across the region. She works with publicly traded multinationals, multilateral agencies, and government clients. She holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MA from MIIS.

Chandri Navarro

Baker McKenzie (US)

Chandri Navarro is senior counsel in Baker & McKenzie's International Commercial & Trade Practice Group in Washington, DC. She advises companies, multinationals, trade associations, and governments on customs and trade law and policy, resolving matters before U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, and the Court of International Trade. Her work spans tariff classification, customs valuation, country of origin, and forced labor compliance. She served as a U.S. State Department security-cleared industry adviser during the NAFTA negotiations.

Daniela Ortega Sosa

Mijares Angoitia (MX)

Daniela Ortega Sosa leads the compliance practice at Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes in Mexico City, with over twenty years in compliance and regulatory risk management across Latin America and the United States. She previously served as Chief Compliance Officer and Managing Director at Citibanamex, and worked at Grupo Televisa and Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. Admitted to practice in Mexico, Venezuela, and New York, she holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and was named to Expansión's 100 Most Powerful Women in Mexico in 2018.

Eugenio Grageda

Holland & Knight (MX)

Eugenio Grageda is a tax attorney at Holland & Knight, where he focuses on international tax planning. He holds master's degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Oxford, and has previously held positions with the Mexican tax authority and with firms in Mexico and New York.

Francisco González

Gonzalez de Cossio Abogados (CDMX)

Francisco González de Cossío is the founder and managing partner of González de Cossío Abogados, a Mexico City boutique devoted exclusively to dispute resolution. He acts as arbitrator, mediator, and counsel in infrastructure, energy, and complex commercial matters, and has taken part in more than 250 cases, presiding over 80 of them. Ranked in Band 1 by Chambers, he has written twelve books on arbitration and competition law, teaches at three Mexican universities, and served as President of the Mexican Arbitration Institute.

George R. Díaz

Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia Brem LLP (US)

George R. Diaz-Arrastia is a founding partner of Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia Brem LLP in Houston, Texas, where his practice concentrates on civil litigation, including business and commercial, products liability, real estate, construction, and international litigation and arbitration, for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individuals. Born in Havana, Cuba, he is fluent in Spanish and has represented Latin American clients extensively. Admitted in Texas since 1983 and before the U.S. Supreme Court, he is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Gerardo Prado

Holland & Knight's (MX)

Gerardo Prado Hernández is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Monterrey office, advising local and international clients on corporate, commercial, M&A, regulatory compliance, and energy projects, with emphasis on renewable energy. With more than thirty years of experience, he guides foreign investors in establishing, restructuring, and selling operations in Mexico, particularly in the automotive, steel, electrical, and retail sectors. Recognized by The Legal 500 Latin America in Energy and Natural Resources, he holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and a J.D. from Universidad Iberoamericana.

Hillary Dorne

Buchalter (MX)

Hillary M. Dorne is a partner in Buchalter's San Diego office and Co-Chair of the firm's Latin America Practice Group. She advises individuals and entities on private client transactions, including business planning, corporate governance and compliance, and commercial finance, and has extensive experience in the formation and operation of businesses, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures. She also works in personal estate planning and multigenerational family business succession planning.

James Prappas

Dykema (US)

James D. Prappas has practiced employment-based immigration law for over thirty years, working with employers and individuals to connect global talent with U.S. companies. Board-certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1993, he has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America since 2011 and named a Texas Leading Lawyer in Immigration by Chambers USA since 2015. He has served as U.S. Chair of the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association since 2024 and is Honorary Legal Counsel to the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston.

Joel Cohen

Stout Inc (US)

Joel Cohen is Managing Partner of the New York Region for Stout and a leader in its Corporate Recovery practice. He has over two decades of experience in dispute, forensic, restructuring, and cross-border insolvency work, focused on the financial services, digital assets, real estate, and asset management industries. He has served as financial advisor and consulting expert to fiduciaries, court-appointed receivers, monitors, offshore liquidators, and bankruptcy and litigation trustees, and his testimony supported the Celsius Network confirmation in Chapter 11.

Jorge J. Sepúlveda García

Bufete Garcia Jimeno (CDMX)

Jorge J. Sepúlveda García focuses on dispute resolution, with experience in complex litigation, arbitration, insolvency proceedings, and corporate restructuring. He represented the principal bank creditor in the restructuring of three Mexican airlines and has appeared in cross-border insolvency proceedings under the UNCITRAL Model Law before courts in Mexico and the United States. In 2024 he became First Vice President of the Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados. A founding member of the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Concursal, he taught insolvency law at Universidad Iberoamericana from 2005 to 2017.

José Ramón Cossío

Retired  Ministro (MX)

José Ramón Cossío Díaz served as a Justice of Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice from 2003 to 2018 and holds a doctorate in law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He headed the Law Department at ITAM for nine years and is the author of 43 books along with numerous articles in journals and the press. He directs the Institute for the Strengthening of the Rule of Law (IFED) and teaches at Tecnológico de Monterrey and El Colegio de México, and is a mediator-conciliator certified by the Judiciary of the State of Mexico. A Level III National Researcher, he belongs to El Colegio Nacional, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Mexican Academy of History, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Barra Mexicana–Colegio de Abogados, and sits on the mediation committee of the ICC Mexico and on the board of Grupo Financiero Citibanamex. He received the National Research Award in 1998, the National Science and Arts Award in 2009, and the National Jurisprudence Award in 2019, and holds ten honorary doctorates. He writes columns for El País and El Universal.

Josh Maxwell

 JD, CPA (US)

Josh Maxwell is Managing Partner at Hone Maxwell LLP and a licensed U.S. attorney and CPA. His practice covers international tax and federal, state, and local tax matters, with particular emphasis on civil and criminal tax controversy defense. He advises clients on FATCA, tax treaties, IRS informational reporting, voluntary disclosure programs, and the legal requirements of expanding into or out of the U.S. market. He defends clients in audits and collection proceedings before the IRS, the Franchise Tax Board, and the CDTFA.

Luis Mendez

Lumen Infrastructure Advisors (US)

Luis G. Mendez is a senior executive and advisor with more than twenty-five years leading infrastructure and energy businesses across North America, Latin America, and emerging markets. He has held CEO, COO, and senior executive roles and served on several company boards, and has led more than US$7 billion in strategic transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings. He was previously Senior Vice President and Head of Latin American Operations at Quanta Services, and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Ashmore Energy International. He has also acted as an expert in international arbitration matters.

Marco Castilla

Quanta Services (US)

Marco A. Castilla is Division General Counsel for Latin America at Quanta Services, leading legal, regulatory, and compliance matters across the region, advising on strategic investments and partnerships, and handling international arbitrations and complex commercial matters. He has more than twenty-five years of U.S. and international legal and business experience across the energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, and construction sectors. He holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and earned his law degree with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

Mariana Campos Clasing

Basham, Ringe & Correa (MX)

Mariana Campos Clasing is Counsel at Basham, Ringe y Correa in Mexico City, practicing in banking and finance, capital markets, restructuring, and financial regulation and derivatives. With more than twenty years of experience, she advises financial institutions and issuers on structured financings, cross-border restructurings, and capital markets transactions. She previously served as chief legal officer of Mexico's institutional stock exchange, BIVA, and as General Counsel of a global investment bank in Mexico, where she led the LIBOR-to-SOFR transition. She holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law.

Mario García

CPA (US) / MEG CPA LLC

Mario E. Garcia is a CPA and international business and tax advisor with more than twenty years of experience serving domestic and international businesses, high-net-worth clients, and their families. He holds a master's in taxation from The University of Texas at Austin. He worked at a Big Four international accounting firm in Houston, then in industry at a publicly traded multinational, and later led the international tax department of a middle-market CPA firm. His experience spans oil and gas, energy, manufacturing, food, transportation, and technology.

Mary Carmen Fuertes

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader (MX)

Mary Carmen Fuertes is a partner at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in Mexico City, practicing labor and social security law. She joined the firm in 2011 and coordinates its labor consulting practice, advising on restructurings, benefit modifications, employee transfers, labor audits and investigations, and the labor aspects of corporate transactions. She co-authored the Mexico chapter of International Employment Law and works on workplace gender equity. She is ranked Band 3 in Labor and Employment by Chambers and Partners and named a Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500 for 2026.

Matthew Cummins

Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg (US)

Matthew Cummins is a Member with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., resident in the firm's Houston office. He pursues administrative remedies before U.S. Customs and Border Protection on tariff classification, country of origin, valuation, and trade preference eligibility, defends clients against trade remedy evasion allegations, and seeks relief from antidumping, Section 301, and Section 232 duties. He also advises on export controls, economic sanctions, and compliance programs. He sits on the board of the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association and holds a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.

Mauricio Llamas

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader (MX)

Mauricio Llamas is a partner at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in Mexico City, advising industrial, service, and commercial clients on environmental, regulatory, and health and safety matters, from environmental impact and permitting to climate change and ESG. He played a key role in the new Mexico City Airport and the Nichupté Bridge, and has challenged federal policies affecting clean energy and environmental rights in administrative litigation. He has been ranked in Environment by Chambers Latin America and as a Leading Practitioner by The Legal 500 Latin America from 2014 to 2024.

Patricia Payán

Medtronic (MX)

Patricia A. Payán Jurado is Principal Legal Counsel at Medtronic and a Mexico-licensed attorney with more than fifteen years of cross-border legal experience. She helps legal and business professionals navigate the legal and business environments of the United States and Mexico, making complex legal issues accessible across different legal systems and business cultures. She returns as a moderator for the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association.

Ramón Curiel

Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel, PLLC (US)

Ramon E. Curiel is a partner at Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel, PLLC in San Antonio, Texas, and has practiced immigration law for more than twenty-six years, working exclusively on business-related cases involving professionals, entrepreneurs, and investors. He served for eight years as AILA liaison to the San Antonio USCIS District Office, chaired AILA's National CBP Liaison Committee, and is a past chair of its Latin American and Caribbean Chapter. He holds a J.D. from Texas Tech University and an LL.M. in International Law from St. Mary's University.

Raúl Lara

EC Rubio (MX)

Raúl Lara Maiz is a partner at EC Rubio in Monterrey, practicing labor, social security, and immigration law. Over more than twenty-five years he has advised national and international companies on labor and immigration compliance and prevention, including hirings and terminations, collective terminations and union negotiations, employer substitutions, employment manuals and policies, international mobility, and labor litigation. He is editor and co-author of The Global Employer: Focus on Global Immigration & Mobility, and has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a Leading Individual and by Best Lawyers Mexico.

William Russell

Reed Smith (US)

William W. Russell is a trial lawyer and international arbitration counsel in Houston, representing clients in litigation and arbitration in energy, construction, and commercial disputes. He has taken numerous cases through jury verdict, final arbitration hearing, and appeal as first chair, and also sits as arbitrator on the AAA and ICDR panels of neutrals. He is an adjunct professor of International Commercial Arbitration at the University of Houston Law Center and served two terms as Chair of the Houston Bar Association's International Law Section. He is fluent in Spanish.

Yvonne Aguilera

De Hoyos Avilés (MX)

Ivonne Aguilera is a Partner at the law firm De Hoyos Avilés, where she established and leads the office in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Her legal practice focuses primarily on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Real Estate Law, Commercial Contracts, Corporate Compliance, and financial transactions for the *maquiladora* and other industries. She has been recognized by highly prestigious international legal directories, for her leadership in the corporate sector in Mexico. She served as Mexico Co-chair of the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association (USMBA) during the 2023–2025 term. She is actively involved in the U.S.-Mexico border community, chairing the board of directors of the non-profit foundation FUNAX, which focuses on entrepreneurship and technology development. She holds an LL.M. from University of Texas School of Law (Austin, TX) and a J.D. from Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua.