Mexico Teams 2019
| 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
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...
| 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...
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 has used in Mexico, such as its compliance database and legal tracking system, developed in-house, are now being exported to other countries within the ENGIE group. The legal team, in coordination with external counsel, has also secured two landmark cases before the Supreme Court that provides greater certainty to the industry on the limits to the regulatory agency and the issuance of temporary rulings. The team is led by Raúl Félix, general secretary and vice president legal, human resources and ethics officer and includes 17 lawyers in total. All members of the department are well versed on energy law and each has a different background and specialty such as, construction, finance, regulation, M&A and more. Thus, the legal department attends almost all of the issues that arise on a daily basis and seldom engages outside counsel. The legal department has a deputy compliance officer, Ruth Cabrera, and two senior managers, Gregory Odry, who tackles renewables and Jacob Kiriaty, who is involved in M&A, operations, regulation and finance. Kiriaty and Odry each has a team with managers and attorneys assisting the issues they respectively face. For example, Fernando Onofre is a key player in regulatory matters and Raul Lopez in the company’s M&A transactions. The legal department has expanded from a core of team of five members to its current number of 18, drawing from Mexico and other parts of the world such as the West Indies, Peru, the US and Colombia. This increase has been driven by the enormous business expansion and capital investment that ENGIE Mexico has experienced. The legal team deals in-house with five basic issues; transportation and distribution of natural gas, construction and operation of energy generation facilities, supply of energy related services, acquisition of companies, and financing of start-ups. The legal team has assisted and many times led the auction process for renewables tendered by the regulator, CENACE, as well as the construction and financing thereof, with ENGIE Mexico having been awarded close to 700 MW with seven wind and solar projects currently underway. The legal team was intimately involved in the issuance of the first clean energy certificates in Mexico. Similarly, the legal team led the project completion process for the 300 kilometres Los Ramones natural gas pipeline in central Mexico, through which 25% of all natural gas in Mexico flows. Lastly, the legal team has and continues to be a key player in the growth of ENGIE Mexico’s natural gas distribution system, which currently serves over 515,000 households, commercial establishments and industry participants in six different states and have secured the applicable permits to grow in a similar number.
Vice president legal, ethics, data privacy and physical security Europe
ENGIE
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