Our team brings integrated expertise across the full oil and gas value chain, advising a broad range of participants in every segment of Mexico’s hydrocarbons sector.

The Firm advises a broad range of participants across all segments of Mexico’s hydrocarbons sector, from exploration and production activities to pipeline networks, processing and storage facilities, and fuel and natural gas distribution infrastructure. Clients include exploration and production companies, NOCs and IOCs, midstream operators, refiners, traders, funds and investors, and national and state-owned entities.

Upstream, our work spans farm-ins, joint operating agreements, exploration and production contracts, and the regulatory framework governing licensing and operator relationships with Mexico’s hydrocarbons regulator. In the midstream space, we structure pipeline and storage transactions, negotiate capacity agreements, and navigate the permitting and interconnection requirements that determine whether projects advance on schedule. Downstream, we counsel clients on refining assets, petrochemical facilities, and fuel marketing operations where commercial, environmental, and regulatory considerations intersect with complex corporate structures.

The Firm’s regulatory practice in hydrocarbons reflects decades of engagement with Mexico’s energy authorities. We advise clients on permitting and licensing matters, compliance programs, and the administrative proceedings that arise when regulatory decisions require challenge or defense, work that demands both technical knowledge of the sector and sophisticated command of Mexico’s administrative law framework. Where such proceedings require litigation before the courts or administrative tribunals, the Firm draws on the integrated capabilities of its administrative litigation practice.

Whether a client’s focus is on conventional thermal generation, utility-scale renewables, or the next generation of storage and distributed energy resources, our team has the expertise and experience needed.

The Mexican power sector is undergoing a structural transformation of historic significance, driven by decarbonization objectives, the industrial demand generated by nearshoring investment, and the commercial pressures acting on all participants in the generation and offtake markets.

The Firm advises clients across the full generation technology spectrum: combined-cycle and cogeneration facilities, utility-scale solar and wind projects, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, and waste-to-energy assets, as well as the distributed generation and battery energy storage systems that are becoming increasingly central to the sector’s evolution. Our advice spans all key practice areas, corporate and M&A, project development, all types of sector-related financing, regulatory counsel, and dispute resolution.

We advise on the negotiation of power purchase agreements and their allocation of commercial and regulatory risk; on the permitting and authorization processes that govern project development; on the regulatory framework applicable to clean energy certificates and their implications for project economics; and on the corporate and commercial structures that underpin power investments in Mexico.

As hydrogen and other next-generation energy technologies attract increasing investor attention, we have begun assisting clients explore potential opportunities promoted by the Mexican government. As these green and blue hydrogen projects mature, we continue advising our clients on the regulatory aspects to develop and finance the projects and guide them through the regulatory approvals that will be required to bring these technologies to market at scale.

Mexico’s endowment of battery-critical and strategic minerals positions the country as one of the world’s most consequential arenas for critical minerals investment in the coming decades.

The global energy transition has fundamentally altered the strategic calculus of mining investment. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, manganese, and the rare earth elements required for electric vehicles, battery storage, wind turbines, and solar installations are no longer niche commodities, they are central to the industrial policy of major economies and the subject of intense competition among states, investors, and mining companies seeking to secure supply chains. Mexico’s endowment of these materials, including one of the world’s largest lithium deposits, extensive copper and zinc reserves, and significant rare earth potential, positions the country as a key arena for critical minerals investment in the coming decades.

The Firm advises clients on the legal dimensions of critical minerals investment in Mexico across all transaction types and regulatory contexts. We assist international mining companies, private equity sponsors, development finance institutions, and offtake counterparties with the structuring, permitting, financing, and operation of critical minerals projects, bringing to these engagements an understanding of both the Mexican legal framework and the international supply chain dynamics that increasingly shape investment decisions. As the regulatory framework governing critical minerals continues to evolve in Mexico, we provide the kind of forward-looking regulatory counsel that helps clients navigate uncertainty and build durable positions in one of the world’s most strategically significant resource markets.

The Firm’s project finance practice is widely recognized as one of the most experienced in Mexico, acting on behalf of both lenders and sponsors in the financing of the country’s most significant energy projects.

Our lawyers advise on the full range of non-recourse and limited-recourse financing structures , from syndicated senior credit facilities and mezzanine instruments to equity bridge loans and multi-source development finance institution facilities , and draft and negotiate the comprehensive documentation that complex project financings require, from credit agreements and intercreditor arrangements to direct agreements, account structures, and security packages.

A defining characteristic of the Firm’s project finance practice is its ability to operate at the interface between international financing standards and Mexican legal requirements. Energy and infrastructure projects in Mexico regularly involve the participation of multilateral development banks, export credit agencies, and international commercial lenders alongside domestic financial institutions, each bringing distinct documentation standards, risk assessment frameworks, and institutional requirements. We regularly represent project developers, commercial banks, multilateral development institutions, export credit agencies, and insurance companies in transactions requiring both international and Mexican law expertise.

Our lawyers have developed, over many years of practice, the experience necessary to align these requirements within a single, coherent financing structure, one that satisfies the most rigorous lender standards while remaining fully operative and enforceable under Mexican law. This capability, bridging the gap between global finance market standards and local regulatory requirements in a way that few Mexican firms can match, is consistently identified by clients and by leading legal directories as a core differentiator of our practice.

The Firm advises buyers, sellers, financial sponsors, and strategic investors on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestiture transactions across all segments of Mexico’s energy sector.

Our transactional practice encompasses the acquisition of upstream production assets, the purchase and sale of renewable energy portfolios, strategic investments in midstream infrastructure, and the entry and exit transactions of private equity sponsors active in the Mexican market. We advise clients at each stage of the transaction process, from preliminary structuring and competitive bid preparation through due diligence, negotiation, documentation, and post-closing integration.

Energy and infrastructure M&A transactions require the coordinated deployment of expertise across corporate and M&A, administrative and regulatory law, and environmental compliance, not in sequence, but simultaneously and in close coordination. Our transactional practice is therefore closely integrated with the Firm’s regulatory, project finance, tax, real estate, employment, and environmental practices, enabling us to manage complex, multi-disciplinary transactions as a single integrated team rather than as a collection of discrete work streams.

Our lawyers bring to energy M&A a detailed understanding of the sector-specific due diligence issues, permit status, regulatory authorizations, grid connection rights, environmental contingencies, and offtake counterparty credit, that determine the real value of an energy asset and can make or break a transaction. For international investors and sponsors entering Mexico’s energy market, the Firm serves as co-counsel of choice for Mexican law matters, providing the depth of local regulatory knowledge and transactional experience that cross-border energy transactions require.

Regulatory expertise is central, rather than ancillary, to the Firm’s energy practice.

We advise clients on the full spectrum of energy sector regulatory matters: the procurement of energy-related permits; engagement with Mexico’s energy authorities on matters of policy interpretation, compliance, and administrative procedure; and the management of the administrative law dimensions of complex energy projects from inception through operation.

The Firm’s regulatory practice in the oil and gas and power sectors reflects decades of engagement with Mexico’s energy authorities, advising on permitting and licensing matters, compliance programs, and the administrative proceedings that arise when regulatory decisions require challenge or defense. Where regulatory decisions require challenge or defense before the courts or administrative tribunals, the Firm draws on the integrated capabilities of its administrative litigation practice to pursue those proceedings with the sector-specific expertise that energy regulatory disputes demand.