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LUIS M. JARDÓN PIÑA IS COUNSEL IN THE MEXICO CITY OFFICE OF CREEL, GARCÍA-CUÉLLAR, AIZA Y ENRÍQUEZ, AND A MEMBER OF THE FIRM'S ARBITRATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICE.
Luis concentrates his practice on international litigation and arbitration, as well as regulatory and public international law advisory work. He has acted on behalf of clients across the energy, oil and gas, mining and metals, construction, telecommunications, and manufacturing sectors in high-stakes cases under multiple arbitration rules and in crisis management scenarios. In addition, he frequently advises corporate clients in structuring transnational mechanisms for the protection of foreign investment in Mexico.
Prior to joining the Firm, Luis was an associate at a global law firm, where he advised sovereign States on a series of investor-State arbitrations conducted under ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules. In addition, Luis served for several years as international legal counsel at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he handled a broad range of public international law matters, including disputes before foreign courts and international tribunals. In that capacity, he led the Government of Mexico's litigation team before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other international human rights organs and was closely involved in the implementation of the Avena and Other Mexican Nationals judgment of the International Court of Justice and in several amicus curiae briefs submitted by the Government of Mexico before United States courts.
Luis is a member of the International Law Association. He has served as head lecturer of Public International Law at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) since 2011 and has been a guest lecturer at the diplomatic academy of the Instituto Matías Romero. He was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, and is fluent in Spanish and English.