Bernardo Cortes Araujo

Practice Areas

Energy and Natural Resources

Projects

Infrastructure

Dispute Resolution

Career

Bernardo is a founding partner of Cortés Quesada, Abogados, with extensive experience in the energy sector, covering a wide range of activities and legal practices. With 15 years of experience, he has played key roles across the entire energy value chain in the oil & gas and electricity industries, establishing himself as a rising leading legal authority on energy matters in Mexico.

He provides clients with daily legal support across all aspects of energy and infrastructure projects, including corporate, transactional, and dispute resolution issues.

Bernardo is particularly skilled in handling natural gas (including LNG) and electricity projects, both domestically and internationally.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Mexican Bar Association

Co-chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Mexican Bar Association

Member of the Energy Transition Comission of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Mexico

Publications

México y su Sistema de Comercio de Emisiones (2023)

Energía y arbitraje de inversión: probando terrenos pantanosos (2022)

Unitization in Mexico: How “Zama” may test SENER’s unitization rules for the first time (2019)

Future of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms under the United States – Mexico – Canada Agreement (2018)

Improved outlook for Mexico’s second O&G bid (2015)

Arbitrajes Especiales: La Maleabilidad del Arbitraje Traducida en Medios Efectivos para la Realización de un Fin (2014)

Nueva Ley de Petróleos Mexicanos - Implicaciones en el Arbitraje Comercial (2014)

Solución de Controversias en la Industria de la Construcción (2013)

El Árbitro de Urgencia (2013)

Arbitraje: "Justicia Privada" en la Industria de la Construcción (2012)

Personal

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