Rodrigo Zamora Etcharren

Practice Areas

Rodrigo leads Galicia’s Commercial Litigation and Commercial and Investment Arbitration practice.

His professional life has been dedicated entirely to dispute resolutions, an area of the law to which he has been committed for nearly 25 years. Ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and Partners, Rodrigo is described as an outstanding practitioner, and a leading figure across litigation and arbitration. Recently, the French publication Leaders League has named him as “Leading” in the Arbitration practice, and “Excelent” in the Civil & Commercial Litigation practice. Who’s Who Legal has listed him “Thought Leader”.

He has appeared before local and federal trial and appellate courts in most circuits in Mexico, including the Supreme Court, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He has also participated in dozens of arbitrations, many of them multi-jurisdictional, both as counsel and as arbitrator, mainly before the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and the Arbitration Center of Mexico.

Rodrigo has participated as an expert in Mexican law in numerous arbitrations and judicial proceedings before the courts of the United States and other nations and before arbitral tribunals (including in investor-state cases).

His clients benefit from the strategies he designs in collaboration with members of the Galicia’s transactional practice (including Banking & Finance, Insurance, and M&A partners), and with other Galicia’s areas, including Regulatory, Tax, Restructuring & Insolvency, Environmental, Compliance & Investigations, and Competition & Regulated Industries. This allows our Commercial Litigation and Arbitration practice to handle complex domestic and international disputes, including class actions. His practice has also included taking on cases in order to overturn unfortunate results in prior stages of the litigation under other legal representations.

His clientele includes some of the world’s largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, private funds, and most of the companies in Mexico’s energy and infrastructure sectors.

Rodrigo has participated in some of the most relevant recent cases dealing with contractual, shareholders, insurance and reinsurance, infrastructure, construction and energy disputes, among many other subjects. Specifically, he has led the legal team in several litigations against Mexican government entities, including state-owned enterprises from the energy sector.

Rodrigo is a member of the Mexican Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), the London Court of International Arbitration, the Latin American Group of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Mexican Arbitration Institute and the Mexican Energy Law Academy, among other organizations. Rodrigo has published extensively and currently lectures in several postgraduate programs.

He is member of the Greener Arbitrations LAC Sub-Committee, which purpose is to promote the use of the Greener Arbitrations Protocols in Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of the Green Pledge.

Rodrigo graduated from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico City) and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from New York University. Rodrigo is authorized to practice in Mexico and New York. As a “lawyer of lawyers”, Rodrigo was the first general counsel of the Mexican Bar Association, whilst remaining active as practitioner in his previous firm.

He is a member of the Galicia’s Business Development Committee.