Mexico Teams 2017
| Engie
Engie
| ENGIE Türkiye
The Turkish legal team at French multinational power, natural gas and energy services company, ENGIE is led by general counsel, Berna Gungenci. The team is now made up of six...
| Engie Perú
In May 2018, the Engie-owned Intipampa project was “plugged in”. This is a 40 MW solar plant in Peru Moquegua, and the venture was awarded in a power auction held...
| Engie
The energy sector is fast paced and unpredictable. Climate change, the new technology and the shift to accommodate renewable energy has added to the pace of change, leading to a...
| Engie
In a market that fluctuates constantly, the legal team at ENGIE Mexico has become a point of reference to competitors and to its ENGIE Latin America business colleagues. Mechanisms it...
| Engie
France-headquartered Engie is a multinational utility company operating in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy. Known as GDF SUEZ until April 2015, the...
| ENGIE Australia
Active in Australia since 1996, ENGIE Australia (formerly GDF Suez Australia) is now responsible for the generation of approximately 2,000MW of energy via renewable, gas-fired and brown coal power plants....
| ENGIE Africa
With over 50 years in the continent, ENGIE Africa is active in a variety of countries through its power generation, energy services, and micro-grid/off-grid subsidiaries. The 12-member legal team in...
Engie’s market for power and water in the Middle East is both immense and growing, with the UAE alone projected to increase its electricity requirements by up to 40% between...
| Engie Italy
ENGIE has been operating in Italy for 20 years and is now one of the leaders in the energy sector. It is also a shareholder of Tirreno Power, one of...
| Engie
Engie continued its excellent record of success in 2018 with revenues of €60.6bn posted at year end. Its legal team prizes excellent knowledge of the law and implications on the...
| Engie
The Italian subsidiary of French energy company ENGIE is served by a legal team that is highly recommended by its internal business partners and external colleagues alike. A nominating source...
| Engie Energía Chile
Engie Energía Chile, part of GDF Suez Group, is the largest electric company in Chile’s Great North Interconnected System (SING) – its northern region, specialised in the production and transport...
Described as a ‘group of diverse, innovative and solution-oriented lawyers’, the 23-person legal team (18 legal professionals and five non-legal staff) at Engie’s Asia Pacific Business Unit (BU) supports the...
During 2015, international energy company ENGIE began an ambitious transformation programme to reorganise its business lines, which collectively generate €70bn in turnover and employ 150,000 people, into 24 new geographical...
French multinational Engie has been active in Mexico since 1989 and is currently a major player among private gas pipeline operators and natural gas distributors in the country, operating three steam-electricity plants and over 2,300 employees. As general counsel and head of legal, Raul Felix Saul has led a recent expansion of the legal team to include lawyers with various backgrounds and expertise such as construction, finance, transportation and energy generation. Saul says of the recruitment policy that, ‘we have sought to diversify and bring in attorneys that complement each other, not only in expertise but in maturity and experience. We believe we have constructed a well-oiled machine, ready to face many of the challenges ahead’. By conducting more work in-house as a result, the team of 13 members has standardised contracts, implemented a central system for all contract information and created a web kiosk that systematises the issuance of standard contracts to the commercial units. The system developed by the team has been so well received internally that a further roll-out to Engie’s operations in other jurisdictions is a very possible outcome. In ensuring the proper adoption of the system, the Mexican legal team has been particularly proactive by conducting training seminars for business areas. In 2016, Engie was awarded two new contracts – one for a 28 MW solar energy project in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and one for a 209 MW solar and wind energy project – in connection with a new national call for tenders organised by CENACE, Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control. Gregory Odry, the general counsel of Engie Central America led on the projects. Having worked on the projects with the wider legal team, Saul says, ‘these two projects reflect the culmination of the internal team-building efforts (including those of the legal department) in order to successfully present competitive offers’. In adapting to the major domestic energy reforms for Engie, the legal department has ‘anticipated the needs of the clients and have made enormous efforts to focus on their needs. This goal provided us with an opportunity to analyse how the ever-changing regulations affected our clients’ interests and, in that sense, made it easier to navigate through those tumultuous regulatory waters,‘ according to Saul. Special mention was given to other members of the legal team too: Elisa Carneiro supports all the efforts to bifurcate the distribution business from the commercialisation business, in line with both newly implemented and yet-to-be implemented regulations; and senior legal manager Jacob Kiriaty played a particularly important role during the completion of the Los Ramones natural gas pipeline project.
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