Gabriel Calvillo Díaz
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 3 : Compliance
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About
Provided by Gabriel Calvillo Díaz
Practice Areas
Compliance | Corporate Criminal Liability | Environmental
Career
Gabriel focuses his practice on compliance, corporate criminal liability, white collar crimes and environmental litigation. His experience comes from the practice of criminal law, both private and public sectors.
Gabriel has been criminal counsel in corporate criminal matters for more than ten years, as well as Head of the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Attorney General’s Office in matters particularly close to corporate activity, such as crimes against the environment, corporate homicide and industrial related offences. He specializes in complex corporate criminal liability cases and criminal compliance.
In his environmental practice, Gabriel regularly represents corporations in complex litigations cases, as well as buyers and sellers in environmental and compliance due diligence. He worked as General Counsel for the Federal Environmental Enforcement Agency (PROFEPA), Litigation Director General at the Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry, as well as Head of Environmental Crimes Division of the Federal Department of Justice. In private practice he represented corporations for more than ten years in complex environmental damage and toxic torts cases.
Gabriel has a long history in the regulatory, law enforcement and compliance field in environmental and human rights matters, which allows him to incorporate real procedural criteria and experiences into the prevention, risk analysis and compliance models of our Firm. Gabriel was in charge of the design and implementation of the Federal Law on Environmental Responsibility, which addresses central issues of compliance, climate responsibility and ESG litigation, as well as a litigator and prosecutor specializing in business crimes that expose people to criminal liability. due to failures in control, surveillance and good governance.
Languages Spoken
Spanish & English
Education
Universidad Iberoamericana
Law Degree
1994
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales
Specialization in Accusatory Criminal System and Oral Litigation
2014
Georgetown University Law Center
Master of Laws LL.M
1997
Chambers Review
Latin America
Gabriel Calvillo Díaz of Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes carries on receiving recognition for his expertise in the Mexican compliance space.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Gabriel Calvillo Díaz provides an excellent service and attention when it comes to advising on compliance matters in Mexico."
"Gabriel Calvillo Díaz provides an excellent service and attention when it comes to advising on compliance matters in Mexico."