Alejandro Ripoll

Practice Areas

His practice revolves around corporate law, foreign investment, infrastructure, energy, mergers and acquisitions, finance, transactions, commercial arbitration and implementation of corporate governance in family businesses. Alejandro provides support for small, medium and large enterprises.

Alejandro has provided advice for infrastructure and energy projects with a combined value of over $15 billion USD in locations such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Honduras and Malaysia; the projects include port terminals, regasification plants, roads, railways and high speed trains, dams, among others.

Career

Alejandro has 20 years of professional practice and currently is partner at RRS. Alejandro co-leads our Corporate & Business and Energy & Infrastructure practice teams. He began his professional career at Baker & McKenzie in the Corporate/M&A practice group.

Alejandro is counselor in several board of directors and corporate governance committees.

Currently, Alejandro is member of the Executive Committee of Legalink, global legal network of 70 independent law firms with over 3500 lawyers of 60 jurisdictions. Active member of the Mexican Bar Association, as member of the Executive Committee of the Jalisco Chapter.

Alejandro is a professor in the MBA of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) with the lecture Business Legal Stratergies. He has been professor and researcher in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, Bussiness Legal Framework at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Former member of the Council of Young Entrepreneurs of the National Chamber of Commerce in Guadalajara. Former President of the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association, UP Guadalajara chapter. Mexican delegate to the Global Sales Law Project of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Translator for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICTRAL) on the subject of national and international decisions on international sales transactions. Guest professor at the University of San Diego for the Thorsnes International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition as Foreign Arbitrator.