Partner, México City

Practice Description

Miguel B. de Erice has served as a legal advisor to the Mexican Federal Government and some of the largest domestic and transnational companies on corporate, administrative law, communications, finance, and technology matters, and infrastructure and privatization processes.

Representations

• Legal advisor in the following privatization processes:

  • Integral Port Administrations
  • Mexican system of dredging (four processes)
  • Specialized terminal of container in Manzanillo port
  • Specialized terminal of container in Veracruz port
  • Terminals I and II for multiple uses in Altamira port
  • Terminals I and II for multiple uses in Lázaro Cárdenas port
  • Facility I and II for multiple uses in Manzanillo port
  • Acapulco port
  • Puerto Vallarta port (first process)
  • Mexican de Aviación, S.A. de C.V.
  • Industrias Conasupo (Iconsa) (four processes)
  • Turborreactores, S.A. de C.V.
  • Servicios de Telerreser Vaciones Sertel, S.A. de C.V.
  • Controladora Mexicana de Telecomunicaciones
  • Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico, S.A. de C.V., as well as participation in the drafting of finance and co-investment schemes, in which several investment groups participated
  • Ferrocarril del Noreste, S.A. de C.V.
  • Ferrocarril Pacífico-Norte, S.A. de C.V.
  • Clemax, S.A.
  • Astilleros Unidos de Veracruz
  • Afianzadora Mexicana, S.A.
  • Constructora Nacional de Carros de Farrocarril, S.A.
  • Secotel
  • Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (Mexican Satellite System)
  • World Trade Center
  • Unidad de Autopistas de Cuota
  • Sistema Municipal de Agua y Sarneamientos de Torreón, Coahuila
  
  

• Participation in the drafting of the ruling law for the railroad services, port law, regulation of airport law, and project of the ruling for the Mexican railroad system

• Participation in the highway system restructuring process

• Legal advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Transportation to coordinate the
  administration of investment groups for highways

• Legal advisor to the state of Tabasco for the partial assignment of rights of Puerto de Frontera

Distinctions/Honors

• The Best Lawyers in Mexico^® by Woodward/White Inc. (Corporate and M&A); 2009

• Chambers Latin America by Chambers & Partners (Energy & Natural Resources); 2009-2010

Press Releases/In the News

• T&K Recognized in 2011 Chambers Latin America Directory; June 15, 2010
  

• "Thompson & Knight celebra su quinto aniversario en Mexico," El Mundo del Abogado; April 30, 2010
  

Presentations/Publications

• Client Alert: México - Publication of the Administrative Contracting Regulations for Pemex, February 3, 2010
  

• Considerations to the Study of the Court of Inquisition History in Mexico, Thesis, 1983