About the editor

Lic. Vicente Bañuelos

Vicente Bañuelos has 20 years of experience in complex commercial, banking, financial, corporate and business litigation, with  approximately 220 judicial litigations and 30 arbitrations, predominantly with favourable judgment or settlement for his clients).

He graduated from the Escuela Libre de Derecho on 1998 and obtained his LL.M. degree from the University of California (Davis). He Is a PhD candidate for Universidad Panamericana and has an additional Master’s degree in Law from Universidad Panamericana.

Prior to joining Clyde & Co.  he was a partner at one of the leading litigation firms in Mexico City.

Vicente has been a lecturer at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and Universidad Panamericana.

He is the author of the book "International Commercial Arbitration" published by Limusa.

https://libreria-limusa.com/producto/arbitraje-comercial-internacional/

Vicente advised clients in several proceedings before U.S. Courts (San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and New Jersey), involving Mexican companies and nationals.

He frequently lectures on topics related to Commercial Procedural Law in Mexico and Peru.

He is a Professor of Commercial Arbitration at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (San Luis Potosi Campus) (2011), and Professor of Civil and Mercantile Procedural Law at the Universidad Panamericana (2015).

Experience

  • Arbitration proceedings between a cargo airline in Miami and its underwriters in London, regarding coverage of a catastrophic air accident in Mexico City (London rules);
  • Breach of timber purchase agreement by U.S. seller arbitration Mexico-Arizona (AAA);
  • Default in payment of documentary credit by Canadian accepting bank with respect to its Mexican applicant (CCII);
  • Failure to comply with a turnkey contract for an industrial warehouse in Guadalajara (Uncitral);
  • Dispute between partners regarding the value of the option to purchase a large package of shares in the industrial sector of beverages and beer (CCI);
  • Dispute between Mexican parastatal company and private consortium, for termination of contract (CCI);
  • Support to the federal government in arbitration followed according to Chapter XI of NAFTA (Uncitral);
  • Different domestic arbitrations in banking matters (Law of Credit Institutions and CONDUSEF);
  • Dispute regarding a shareholders' agreement between a Mexican company and a foreign investment fund (CCI);
  • Dispute concerning a license agreement entered into between two Mexican companies (CAM);
  • Dispute between a manufacturing company regarding a stock purchase agreement (CCI);
  • Dispute against a shipping company (AAA);
  • Dispute concerning a default in payment of manufactured products for the automotive industry (AAA);
  • Dispute concerning the termination of a franchise agreement (CAM);
  • Dispute concerning compensation arising from a sale of shares in a food company (CAM);
  • Dispute concerning the breach of a power transformer sales contract (PSC);
  • Mining industry supply contract dispute (CAM);
  • Dispute regarding the release of a deposit granted by a company in the electrical industry (CANACO);
  • Insurance contract dispute in the mining industry (Ad Hoc);
  • Dispute concerning a contract for the provision of technological infrastructure services (CANACO)
  • International Bridge Concession Dispute (Ad Hoc);
  • Dispute concerning the termination of a construction contract for a project involving a hospital, hotel and shopping centre (Ad Hoc);
  • Dispute concerning a works contract concluded between a public body and a private individual (CANACO);
  • Dispute concerning non-compliance with the terms and conditions of a construction contract; concluded between a federal public entity and a private individual (Ad Hoc);
  • Dispute concerning non-payment on termination of a contract for the provision of services concluded between a State Government and a private individual (ICC).

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