Guillermo Barragan joined Gonzalez Calvillo in 2006 and is member of the Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group, and also part of the Carbon Market Work Group.

Practice Focus
He specializes in issues related with environmental permitting, administrative procedures, environmental audits and public consultation processes and has extensive experience in energy, public tenders, privately financed projects, and in the design of legal strategies for the development of various types of projects, including those within the infrastructure, energy, real estate, industrial and tourism sectors. Invited by the Institute of the Americas to organize and coordinate conferences regarding the Carbon Market in Latin America, with special focus on the creation of a voluntary carbon market in the region regulated by the Mexican Stock Exchange, he is actively involved in analyzing the regulatory aspects of projects and designing strategies to ensure their conformity with the relevant legal requirements of clean development mechanism projects and international standards such as those set forth by the World Bank Group and the OCDE.


Representative Legal Matters
• Counsel to GDF Suez in the development of a new private Power Generation facility to provide electrical energy to several industrial facilities located in the port terminal known as API Altamira, Mexico

• Counsel to the consortium formed by Mitsubishi Corporation, GDF Suez North America and Kyushu Electric Power Co., in the bidding process by the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission to award a Power production and Energy Purchase Agreement of the energy generated at a new 300MW  IPP Project in Baja California, Northwestern Mexico.

• Counsel to Mitsubishi Corporation in the acquisition process of an equity participation on the largest wind farm in latin America currently  under development in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico with a Project and financing cost of over 1 billion US Dollars.

• Joint representation of the Thermoelectric Generating Plants Termoeléctrica Peñoles, S. de R.L. de C.V. and Termoeléctrica del Golfo, S. de R.L. de C.V two Mexican subsidiaries of US energy company AES, in order to secure water rights in a part of the country where water concessions are no longer being granted.

• For the development of the Norte II IPP Project, a utility scale, gas fired combined-cycle power plant in El Encino, Chihuahua, advise was provided in regards to the regulatory aspects of the project with an effect on environmental, natural resource and urban development issues which also have a direct impact on such agreements as Fuel Supply Agreement, Power Procurement Agreement, Engineering and Procurement Contracts and Site Purchase Agreements which were prepared for the Project by the Energy Practice Group at the Firm.

• Representation of Corporativo Hermes, S.A. de C.V.  throughout the bidding process regarding the acquisition of a stake in the development known as Cabo Riviera—located in Baja California and designed as the largest resort and marina in Latin America.

• Counsel to EMCOSE, S. de R.L. de C.V, in regards to the operations of its Cogeneration Facility that generates and supplies thermal energy and electricity for the facilities of one of the largest bottling groups in Mexico

• Counsel to LaSalle Investment Management and performance of environmental site assessment in order to determine the presence of contaminated sites, after which we obtained the Federal authorization of the site remediation program, upon completion of which the Site Liberation Certificate—required to perform the transference of property of any contaminated or previously contaminated site, was obtained in order to enable the transaction.

• Pro bono work performed as counsel to VERDF, Voltear a ver, A.C.—a non for profit organization that promotes environmental conscience and resource preservation through the development of courses and seminars, and most importantly through the media.

Admission
Mexico.


Education and Experience
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM)