Practice area 03
Energy: Gas, Electricity, Oil, and Mining — Regulatory and Commercial Practice with Legal Certainty.
Energy moves the world, and that is the world in which we operate.
Permits, concessions, the electricity market, rights of way, and regulatory litigation, including representation before the authorities and industry participants.
The practice area
We understand the essence of the energy sector — renewable energy sources, hydrocarbons, natural gas, petrochemicals, electricity, and mining.
We know its challenges; we give them a positive social purpose and work to achieve results. Our experience and ongoing training allow us to operate effectively within the framework of public institutions and the domestic and international business sector.
What this area covers
What does this practice area cover?
OIL & GAS
- Natural gas projects
- General supply projects
- Construction and/or provision of services within the energy industry
- Services and contracts for exploration, drilling, extraction, surveying, and surface exploration
- Permits for oil treatment and refining
- Processing of natural gas and its byproducts
- Advice on the export and import of hydrocarbons and petroleum products
- Advice on transportation, storage, trading, and distribution
- Advice on compression and liquefaction
- Decompression and regasification
- Management of integrated systems
- Basic and secondary petrochemicals
- Advice on imports and exports
- EPC and O&M (Engineering, Procurement and Construction; Operation and Maintenance)
- Legal management of permits and concessions
- Rights of way and land tenure
- Related litigation.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
- Turnkey projects and comprehensive advice
- Comprehensive solutions at every phase of the project
- State-of-the-art photovoltaic power generation
- Partnerships with leading global companies
- Turnkey projects of any capacity — pre-feasibility, feasibility, planning, management, construction, operation, maintenance, and commercialization
- Advice on establishing international partnerships and creating affiliates and subsidiaries of State Productive Enterprises (EPEs)
- Turnkey development of projects to establish manufacturing plants for solar panels, solar cookers, solar air conditioning, and solar water heaters
- Import, trading, and distribution of solar panels, solar cookers, solar air conditioning, and solar water heaters, meeting the highest quality standards and backed by international warranties, sourced directly from factories and international companies that develop large-scale projects
- Biomass
- Compliance with Official Mexican Standards (NOMs) and international standards
- Extensive international financing and the most competitive international costs
- International best practices
- Legal management of permits and concessions
- Import and export
- Legal audit
- Related litigation.
ELECTRICITY
- Specialized legal advice on project development at every stage (EPC, O&M, efficiency)
- Development of alternatives for electricity generation
- Combined cycle
- Cogeneration
- Hydroelectric
- Legal advice on the use of clean energy for electricity generation
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Thermoelectric
- Legal management of permits, contracts, and concessions
- Rights of way and land tenure
- Electricity market (trading, capacity, interconnection, tariffs, among others)
- Import and export of electric power
- Legal Audit
- Related litigation.
MINING LAW
- Advice on the incorporation and registration of mining companies
- Negotiation, review, and drafting of contracts
- Assignment of rights arising from mining concessions
- Legal Audit
- Drafting and negotiation of temporary land-occupation agreements
- Disincorporation of rural (ejido) land and private property
- Advice on proceedings before the Ministry of Economy and the Mining Administration Service
- Legal management of permits and concessions
- Related litigation.
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN THE HYDROCARBONS SECTOR
- Advice on the design, implementation, and approval of Industrial Safety, Operational Safety, and Environmental Protection Management Systems
- Advice and representation in obtaining approval for testing laboratories, verification units, and certification bodies linked to the hydrocarbons sector
- Advice and representation in obtaining permits, licenses, and authorizations for the handling of hazardous and special-management waste linked to the hydrocarbons sector
- Official technical standards.
Authorities
Entities we interact with
Much of the work in this practice area takes place before authorities and regulatory bodies. Tell us about your case, and we will let you know which ones apply to your case.
Some of the entities we interact with include SENER, CENACE, CNE, ASEA, CNH, CFE, PEMEX, the Ministry of Economy (SE), environmental ministries, and specialized commissions and institutes, as well as other related regulatory bodies and decentralized agencies.
Contact
An Energy or Mining case?
Describe it in the form below, and we will appoint it to the appropriate practice area. If a deadline is running, please call.