Ignacio Vera Email & Phone Number

Illinois, United States

I report to the CEO about corporate restructuring, contractual agreements, and simultaneous dispute resolutions

Mexico City Metropolitan Area

• Advising the firm in environmental and social-impact regulatory frameworks as well as those related to ESG criteria, notably, Anticorruption, AML, KYC, and Privacy.
• Advising the firm’s clients in mapping and “re-scripting” their processes to ESG criteria.
• Advising the Consultancy’s clients in corporate redesign to fit a Compliance Officer into their C-Suite, and his or her training to look after ESG standards.

Mexico

• Advising the firm in domestic applicable environmental- and social- impact regulatory framework
• Advising the firm in the damages assessment, legitimation and the arrangement of legal arguments to uphold client’s claims before adhoc courts.
• Advising the firm in the negotiation and mediation of environmental and/or social damages among involved parties.

México, D.F.

• Counsels on Telecommunications, E-Commerce, Computer Law and Internet, National and International Contracts, Corporate Affairs, Foreign Investment, Intellectual Property
• Successfully fosters business for clients (mostly from the ICT space) through an expansive network
• Incorporated and managed GDI Global MX, S.R.L de C.V and handled all tax, foreign investment, contractual and corporate issues reporting to a U.S Board of Directors
• Incorporated and managed Árete Ventures, S.A.P.I. de C.V. and handled all tax, foreign investment, contractual and corporate issues report-ing to a U.S Board of Directors
• Helps the firm in negotiating with clients.
• Expanded the firm network throughout the Americas and Europe.

Mexico, D.F.

• My responsibilities were:
• Advising clients in all matters related to the energy and telecom sectors, as well as in their in-house issues: corporate, tax, services, labor, real estate, confidentiality, immigration, etc.
• Advising clients in the development of their projects: from drafting their business plan, and their corporate and regulatory design accordingly, to negotiating their construction (with an EPC), operation and.
• Advising and representing clients before regulatory authorities (energy, telecom, environment, etc.) as well as before public (Pemex and CFE) and private companies.
• Coordinating litigation matters outside the firm's specialty with external attorneys.My main achievements so far are:
• Redesigning and optimization of the regulatory scheme of a hydrocarbon storage terminal and of a power trader/supplier

Mexico

• Drafting and negotiating many kinds of contracts related to the international financial business turn of the bank.
• Managing the Intellectual Property Portfolio of the group, consisting of 350+ trademarks, slogans and copyrights.

Mexico

• Implementation and assumption of legal strategies and responsibilities (legal, regulatory, and Compliance/Ethical), in support of the company's commercial and operational activities, including the preparation.
• Implementation and assumption of strategies for the local working group in alignment with the General Counsel for Latin America.
• Leading complex projects, and transactions as well as solving problems from a legal, commercial, and functional perspective.
• Alignment of critical resources, within risk areas, with the company strategies and objectives.
• Acting as an opinion leader on complex laws and regulations matters and on their immediate and mediate implications for local and regional operations and businesses.My main achievements were:
• Successfully lead three M&A transactions along with other international HPE affiliates.

Mexico, D.F.

• My responsibilities were:
• Advising clients in all matters related to the energy and telecom sectors, as well as in their in-house issues: corporate, tax, labor, real estate, confidentiality, immigration, etc.
• Advising clients in the regulatory design, “permitting”, and real estate issues (rights of way, superficial occupation, etc.) of their projects.
• Advising and representing clients before regulatory authorities (telecom, energy, environment, etc.) as well as before public (Pemex and CFE) and private companies.
• Representing clients before relevant chambers, unions, and sector-related events.
• Coordinating litigation matters with attorneys of the firm.My main achievements were:

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• My responsibilities were:
• Advising clients in all matters related to the telecom sector, as well as in their in-house matters: corporate, tax, labor, real estate, confidentiality, immigration, etc.
• Advising clients in the regulatory design, “permitting”, and real estate issues (rights of way, superficial occupation, etc.) of their projects.
• Advising and representing clients before regulatory authorities (telecom, environment, etc.) as well as before public (Telecomm) and private companies.
• Representing clients before relevant chambers, unions, and sector-related events.
• Coordinating litigation matters with attorneys.My main achievements were:

México, D.F.

• My responsibilities were being:
• In charge of the relationship with various national and international organizations in the field of Intellectual Property—WIPO, INTA, BSA, etc.
• In charge of the department for the promotion of Intellectual Property and that of Information Services.
• In charge of the ICT Department
• Head of the of Intellectual Property AcademyMy main achievements were:
• Coped with the backlog of patent applications filed by Mexican public agencies.

Mexico, D.F.

• My responsibilities were:
• Legal management of the Radioelectrical spectrum and the Public Telecommunications Networks
• Drafting and negotiation of interconnection agreements among telcos and drafting proposals to sort out international interconnection disagreements
• Advisement of legal and regulatory aspects of the Board of Commissioners’ decisions.My main achievements were:
• Agreed with different domestic regulatory and tax authorities upon international satellite coverage and domestic tax aspects of Internet access on international flights
• Supported the legal and regulatory aspects of cell number portability and of SMS interconnection by achieving incumbent agreements among telcos

Mexico

• My responsibilities were:
• Intermediating between the digital research company and its clients and/or the judiciary on the account of data theft, e-banking fraud, spying and of any information misuse
• “Translating” technical digital data findings into relevant legal evidence
• Help settle plaintiffs and their bank/defendant counterparts

Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

• My responsibility was to lead the IT and e-trade matters of the firmMy main achievements were:
• Helped organize capital rounds for company startups
• Upheld the Territorial and Specialization Principles of Trademark Law and of Copyright Public Domain Exception in the first Mexican Domain Name-Trademark lawsuit, and enforced the Domain Name Assignation Agreement.
• Innovated internet domain name arbitration processes before WIPO
• Drafted the Terms of Use & Conditions and enabled the paying engine of a pioneering Mexican e-trade marketplace.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Coauthored with the top Mexican legal players—from both Private and Public Sectors—the most relevant company-centered study cases, pursuing their own expertise. The resulting casebook covered the lifespan of a company.
• Pioneered the case-based method in a Mexican LL.M program syllabus

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• The Department was established ensuring the enactment of the current T-MEC.I was the first appointed Director My responsibilities were to conduct and coordinate research on Economic Integration Process and.
• A trilateral report on Canada, USA, and Mexico’s national finance systems from a potential integration, single currency, prospective.
• The organization, with the Ministry of Economy of First Symposium on Unfair Trade Practices—Antidumping and Subsidies.
• Publication of a cross-referenced edition of the Constitutional corpora of the three North American countries.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Legal Aspects Of Ict, Doctor En Derecho

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Formation Of E-Contracts And Economic Integration Law, Magister Iuris (Ll.M) —Unificazione Del Diritto E Diritto Dell’Integrazione

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Legal Aspects Of The New Technologies, Mâitrise En Droit (Ll.M)

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Derecho, Licenciatura