Holland & Knight LLP

Energy

Partner

Claudio Rodríguez serves as the Firm’s Mexico City Office Leader and focuses his practice on energy and infrastructure matters. With experience in several Latin American markets and more than 16 years in close connection with the energy market in Mexico, he represents international energy companies doing business in Mexico, including with regard to wind, downstream, water, solar, cogeneration, combined-cycle, pipeline, LNG, nuclear, geothermal, and transmission projects. Claudio is considered by peers and clients as a pragmatic and business-oriented attorney who quickly understands the effects of complex regulation on his clients’ businesses, including those derived from the Mexican Energy Reform and new federal administration criteria.

Claudio has extensive experience representing developers, procurement firms, producers, investors, contractors, suppliers, and multilateral institutions in all phases of the development, M&A, and financing of energy projects. He advises clients regarding complex regulatory issues and project development, EPC, O&M, supply contracts, M&A, services agreements, hydrocarbon transportation agreements, self-supply agreements, and power purchase agreements (PPA) in the power, renewable, and gas sectors.

English, Spanish, Portuguese

Mexican Academy of Energy Law (AMDE); Coordinator, Foreign Affairs Committee Mexican Bar Association; Chairman, Energy Committee, 2009-2011 International Bar Association

Doctoral Candidate, Universidad Panamericana; Mexico City LL.M., 2002, with merit, University of Exeter; England Bachelor of Law, 1999, Universidad Iberoamericana; Mexico City