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.• Helped draft pieces of legislation involving the “electronic” amendment to Mexican private law, Open Data, and Electronic Signature.

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 maintenance contracts, dealing with the Project Financing, and the regulatory aspects (environmental and social impacts, etc.) of their projects, as well as with their real estate issues (rights of way, superficial occupation, etc.) and the brokering of their potential off-takers and suppliers.• 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• Releasing of the rights of way for over a 1000 km gas pipeline within record lapse.• Entering into the first interconnection agreement with a public pipeline operator.• Stock Purchase Agreement regarding An upstream drilling services company.• Stock Purchase Agreement regarding a power trading company.• "Project (Re)Financing” of an LPG storage company.• Negotiation of a multiple agreement for importing, trading, and exporting of hydrocarbons.

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, presentation, and defense of technical and economic binds in the framework of public acquisition processes.• 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.• Successfully submitted and defended technical and financial bids in two ITC related public procurement processes.• Renegotiated two commercial agreements with two counterparts, resulting in substantial savings in terms of contractual liability, service level commitments, and Intellectual Property licenses.• Launched the implementation process of the legal services paradigm “Legal Operations”.

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:• Evaluation of the social impact (“EvIS”) and the Social Management Plan (“PGS”) for a Gas Pipeline.• Releasing of rights of way for a transmission line of a power generator.

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:• Leading a Mexican team in an unprecedented lawsuit in a US federal court in relation to theft of confidential telecom-related Mexican government information.• Drafting and defending a bid presented in the public acquisition tender for a constitutional-level telecommunications project.• Advising a parliamentary group in the drafting and defense of the Federal Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting bill, especially in matters of asymmetric regulation for prevailing operators.• Advising a parliamentary group in the drafting and defense of the bill of a constitutional reform in energy matters.

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.• Allowed the filing for trademarks on behalf of unauthorized third parties.• Streamlined the flow for the online filing for trademarks.• Reached an agreement with a global Internet search engine to include the IMPI’s patent base in its queries.

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• Authorized the provision of phone services over of VoIP standard• Drafted the Telecommunications Trading Services Regulation, the forerunner of the Mobile Virtual Mobile Network Operators (“MVNO”)• Drafted the Regulations for the Electronic Filing before Government Agencies and the collaboration agreement with the Tax Administration Service for the use of the Advanced Electronic Signature• Mapped, debugged, formalized, and automated over 200 processes within the IFT and implemented the strategic planning system by setting mission, vision, and strategic goals and the relative scorecard balance managing software• Debugged and false-tested users of the radioelectric spectrum database and installed the single database’s management and stratified repopulation systems• Organized, called for, and directed various public procurement processes for the acquisition of goods and services in the amount of circa 10MD• Designed and coordinated citizen-empowering public website MiCofetel.gob, released multi platformed mobile applications and reinvented of the Commission's website• Involved in the deploying of the first IXP/NAP in Mexico• Automatized the Commission’s process for supervising PTN's License abiding• Drafted the architecture for telecom operators database

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 between NIC Mexico and my client. • 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 operating in Mexico, from incorporation to liquidation. Every case was elaborated thereupon throughout the course by its respective co-author/actor• 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 International Trade with corresponding entities within the North American trade area.My achievements were:• 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