Enrique Gonzalez Calvillo, Founding Partner of Gonzalez Calvillo, S.C., is widely considered among the most influential lawyers in Mexico, both in view of his transactional capabilities, as well as his renowned trajectory in dispute resolution in controversies and arbitration.

Practice Focus
Mr. Gonzalez Calvillo is top tier, cross border lawyer, with a broad commercial practice, with an emphasis in M&A’s and Joint Ventures. He acts as counsel, arbitrator and mediator in a wide variety of commercial disputes, under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution and the Center of Commercial Mediation and Arbitration of the National Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City.

Representative Legal Matters
• Represented Banco Bradesco of Brazil in the acquisition of IBI Mexico from Cofra, as part of Bradesco’s US$900 million acquisition of IBI’s operations in Brazil and Mexico.

• Acted as arbitrator in the Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico) vs Anheuser-Busch (U.S.), case concerning issues deriving the merger by the latter and Ambev (Belgium).

• Represented Credito Maestro in the acquisition by Credito Real, of a US$200 million credit portfolio.

• Acted as counsel to Bay-Inelectra in different arbitration procedures with PEMEX, in connection with pending indemnifications arising from public construction agreements.

• Represented Corporacion Mexicana de Inversiones de Capital, Mexico’s government bank backed private equity “Fund of Funds”, in more than US$250 million of investments in different private equity funds in Mexico and Latin America.

• Acted as arbitrator in the San Luis Rassini, S.A. de C.V. (México) vs Brembo, S.p.A. (Italy) case involving a series of issues deriving their joint venture in Mexico.

• Represented Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE) in the US$130 million investment made by Televisa in its subsidiary, OCESA Entretenimiento, S.A. de C.V.

• Advised Alstom Mexicana in a US$1.7 billion project to build, with ICA and Carso Infraestructura y Construccion, Line 12 (Tlahuac-Mixcoac) of the Mexico City subway system, tendered by the Mexico City Government.

• Represented Bay-Inelectra in a US$150 million project for the development of a major facility in the Gulf of Mexico for PEMEX.

• Acted as counsel to Daimler Chrysler Mexico in the implementation of a US$250 million program of certificados bursatiles (notes) for their public offering in the Mexican Stock Exchange.

• Acted as counsel for Alstom Power Centrals and Alstom Power Mexico in an arbitration procedure before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) relating to the construction of a coke-fired electric power plant in Tamuin, Mexico.

Admission
Mexico (1984)

Education and Experience
Universidad Iberoamericana (JD) and The University of Texas at Austin (LLM)

Professional Associations and Memberships
• Instituto Mexicano de la Mediacion, A.C. – Founding Partner and Ex-President.

• Alternate Representative for Mexico in the Commercial Dispute Consulting Committee created under the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• Consejo Empresarial Mexicano de Comercio Exterior, Inversion y Tecnologia, A.C. – President of the Mexico-Brazil Bilateral Committee.

• Camara Nacional de Comercio de la Ciudad de Mexico, A.C. – Member of the Mediation and Arbitration Commission.


Other activities
He has been Vice President of the United States–Mexico Chamber of Commerce (Southwest Chapter), Special Representative of the International Franchise Association (Washington, D.C.) and Vice President of the Subcommittee for Foreign Investment and Transfer of Technology of the American Bar Association, Mexico Committee.

Professor at the Masters Programme in Commercial Law at the Universidad Panamericana; of the Corporate Law Masters at the Mexican Bar Association and of Postgraduate Studies in Commercial Law at the renowned Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City. Co-author of the Global Arbitration Review, published by Law Business Research, Ltd. (London), Mexico Chapter, for the 2004-2007 editions.

Awards
Enrique Gonzalez Calvillo earned the X Premio Gov. Franco Montoro, awarded by the Brazil-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Camara Brasil Mexico de Industria e Comercio) in Sao Paulo for his contribution to the growth of bi-lateral trade and investment relationships between Brazil and Mexico.