Rodolfo Rueda Ballesteros | People | Thompson & Knight LLP

Experience

Rodolfo is a international business attorney with a focus on cross-border natural resources, energy, and infrastructure. Rodolfo focuses his practice on transactions involving projects in Latin America, with special a focus on all facets of oil and gas (upstream, midstream, and downstream), power, and renewable energy projects. He advises clients on international and cross-border transactions, regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, joint ventures, energy infrastructure project development, government procurement, public policy, anticorruption, compliance, HSE, NAFTA, USMCA, international trade, and dispute resolution in the energy sector.

Named Latin America’s “Renewable Energy Attorney of the Year” in 2019 by Iberian Lawyer

Named among the 2020 “Top 100 Energy Leaders in Mexico” by Energy and Petroleum Magazine

Representative Matters

Advice, support, and closing of the lease management of offshore oil rigs of a Norway Corporation, with an approximate amount of $290 million
Structuring, advising, and closing of an approximately $82 million share purchase and sale agreement between Iberdrola and a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., with respect to the participation of the former in 13.25% of Gas Natural Mexico
Accompaniment to the £905 million ($1.77 billion) initial public offering of Fresnillo PLC before the London Stock Exchange
Advice, structuring, representation, and accompaniment of Iberdrola’s expansion plan in Mexico since 2012, with an investment of approximately $5 billion dollars, of which $3.5 billion have been allocated to projects initiated after the approval of the energy reform in 2013
Representation of winning bidders in the accompaniment and structuring of participation in various international public tenders, convened by the Federal Electricity Commission, under the independent electricity production scheme
Project finance and closing of credit granted by Nacional Financiera, S.N.C. in the “PIER II” project, Puebla 66 MW, with an approximate value of $60 million
M&A of BNS wind farm, Oaxaca 70 MW
Construction and commissioning of four renewable 325 MW wind power plants in the states of Puebla and Guanajuato and 275 MW photovoltaic plants in San Luis de Potosí and Sonora
Aqueduct El Realito, public-private investment of approximately 2,700 million pesos (Honored as Water Deal of the Year by Euromoney)

News & Insights

Honors & Affiliations

Distinctions/Honors

The Best Lawyers in Mexico^® by Woodward/White Inc. (Natural Resources Law), 2020-2021
Latin America’s “Renewable Energy Attorney of the Year” by Iberian Lawyer, 2019
Next Generation Partner, The Legal 500 Latin America by Legalease (Energy and Natural Resources), 2021
“Top 100 Energy Leaders in Mexico” by Energy and Petroleum Magazine, 2020

Memberships/Affiliations

Participant, Institute of Energy Law’s Leadership Class, 2020-2021
Board Member, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Mexican Government
Board Member, Consultant Water Council (Consejo Consultivo del Agua)
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Fomento Mexicano para el Desarrollo Sustemtable,A.C.
Member, World Energy Council (UK)
Member, Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
Professor, Natural Resources Law, Universidad Anahuac
Professor, Energy Law, Escuela Libre de Derecho and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico

Education & Admissions

Education

M.S., Business Administration, 2018, Strathclyde University Business School (Scotland)
M.A., Business Administration, Specialization in Energy and Business, 2017, ICADE Business School at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Spain)
Post Graduate Studies in Finance, 2014, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Post Graduate Studies in Business Law, 2013, Universidad Panamericana
Bachelor of Law (J.D. equivalent), 2011, Universidad Anahuac (Mexico)

Admissions

United Mexican States
Licensed as a Foreign Legal Consultant, Texas

Languages

English
Portuguese
Spanish