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Deputy Managing Partner, Mexico City Office

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Additional publications

  • DLA Piper Client Alert, "Further measures threaten investments in the Mexican energy sector," June 14, 2020 
  • DLA Piper Client Alert, "Mexican renewable energy projects affected by new measures," May 19, 2020
  • DLA Piper Client Alert, "COVID-19 and investment claims under NAFTA," May 15, 2020
  • DLA Piper Client Alert, "State defences to investment claims arising from COVID-19," April 29, 2020
  • DLA Piper Client Alert, "COVID-19 – a legitimate basis for investment claims," April 16, 2020
  • "The Economics of Access: Systemic Imbalances in ISDS," ICCA Congress Series No. 20 (2020)
  • DLA Piper Client Alert, "Brazilian federal government issues decree regulating arbitration in disputes between Public Administration and transport and logistics sectors," October 1, 2019

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Speaking engagements

  • Guest Lecturer, "Corrupción y arbitraje internacional," Joint class offered by la Cámara de Comercio Americana del Perú (AmCham Perú) and la Universidad del Pacífico (Perú), December 2, 2020
  • Panelist, "Transparencia en la agenda de reforma del Sistema de solución de controversias entre inversionistas y Estados," Dia UNCITRAL (organized by ITAM and the Secretaria de Economia de Mexico), November 10, 2020
  • Virtual Presenter, "Treaty-Based Protections for Foreign Manufacturing Investments," Smart Factory's Digital Manufacturing Week, November 9-13, 2020
  • Moderator, "Hot Topics in International Arbitration," IBA Annual Conference, Virtually Together (International Arbitration Committee Panel), November 17, 2020
  • Moderator, "Private investment in the Mexican Energy sector: is it time to lawyer up?" ANZMEX Energy Debate, October 22, 2020
  • Panelist, "Disclosure practice and other ethical matters: the impact of recent rulings on arbitrators and experts" GAR Interactive Nth Am, October 14, 2020
  • Panelist, "Advocacy in the Virtual Environment," Australian Arbitration Week, October 12, 2020
  • Moderator - DLA Piper Client Webinar, "Live talk with LCIA Director General – Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof, focusing on the LCIA's increasing role in LatAm arbitrations," September 22, 2020
  • Organized and moderated joint webinar between ArbitralWomen and DLA Piper, "Women in dispute resolution: navigating the new normal – adapting career strategies and building resilience after COVID-19," May 19, 2020
  • Advocate-Speaker, The Praelium (advocacy display), New York, March 5, 2020
  •  Speaker, "El sistema de solución de controversias en el T-MEC", ICC México Arbitration Committee for the Bajio Region, February 6, 2020
  • Panelist, "Elimination of Bias in International Dispute Resolution," ICDR-AAA California Summit, San Francisco, December 5, 2019
  • Panelist, "The revision of final awards: when, if ever, is it acceptable? Dealing with requests for clarification seeking the revision of the award," 17th ICC Annual Miami Conference Miami, November 10-12, 2019
  • Panelist, "ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for Latin America, Alumni Workshop: Emergency Arbitrator," Miami, November 9, 2019
  • Panelist, "Infrastructure Disputes - an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure and construction disputes that arise in the international oil & gas business," at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and ICDR Conference on Dispute Resolution in the International Oil & Gas Business, Houston, October 24-25, 2019
  • Panelist, "New Techniques in Investment Treaty Drafting: their Use by States and Application by Tribunals," at the 9th Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 9-10, 2019
  • Speaker, "Recent Challenges in Enforcing Commercial and Investor-State Awards Involving Sovereigns," at the Third Annual Juris Conference on Enforcement of Arbitration Awards, Boston, September 26, 2019
  • Speaker, "International Arbitration Law Update (India, Mexico & California)," ICDR Event, Los Angeles, July 10, 2019
  • Speaker, "Elimination of Bias in International Dispute Resolution," hosted by The Boeing Company, Los Angeles, July 9, 2019
  • Panelist, "El Arbitraje en Iberoamérica – Retos y Tendencias," Arbitration Conference, México City, June 25-26, 2019
  • Speaker, Global Arbitration Review's 5th Annual "Live Bits" Conference, Washington, DC, May 16, 2019
  • Speaker, "Complejidades actuales del cálculo de daños," XII Conferencia de Arbitraje Internacional, Quito, April 4-5, 2019
  • Speaker, "The role of arbitral tribunals against corruption," 2nd ICC Peru Arbitration Day, Lima, October 11-12, 2018
  • Panelist, "Hot Topic: Producción de documentos en el Arbitraje Internacional," LVYAP - Lima Very Young Arbitration Practitioners and Amcham Perú, Lima, October 11, 2018
  • Panelist, "The use of evidence in international arbitration," Harvard International Arbitration Law Students' Association, International Arbitration Workshop, Cambridge, October 2, 2018
  • Speaker, "Arbitration Challenged II: The Realities of Arbitration Economics: Who Gets to Play, and What are the Implications?" (cost allocation, security for costs and third party funding in ISDS: systemic imbalances), ICCA Congress, Sydney, April 16, 2018
  • Speaker, "Arbitration with Public Entities," LCIA Latin American and Caribbean Users' Council Symposium, Buenos Aires, February 27, 2018
  • Speaker, "Resource Nationalism in Emerging Markets," 5th Annual ITA-IEL Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration, Houston, January 18-19, 2018
  • Speaker, "Hot topics in international arbitration," IBA Annual Conference, Sydney, October 9, 2017
  • Speaker, Young ITA Dallas Roundtable at the 29th ITA Workshop, Plano TX, June 14-16, 2017
  • Panelist, Global Pound Conference, Miami, April 6-7, 2017
  • Speaker, "Umbrella clauses in investment arbitration," Foro de Jóvenes en Arbitraje CAM – CANACO, Mexico City, March 2, 2017
  • Speaker, "How to choose an arbitrator: A masterclass," Latin Lawyer – GAR Live Arbitration Summit, Miami, April 27, 2017
  • Panelist, Global Pound Conference, Miami, April 6, 2017
  • Speaker, "La cláusula paraguas: límites, alcances y su situación actual," Foro de Jóvenes en Arbitraje CAM – CANACO, Mexico City, March 2, 2017
  • Speaker, "Hot topics in international arbitration," IBA Annual Conference, Washington DC, September 22, 2016
  • Speaker, "Motions for Summary Dispositions in Arbitration," ArbitralWomen Breakfast Meeting and Panel Discussion at the IBA Conference in Washington, DC, September 19, 2016
  • Speaker, "Transparencia en los arbitrajes," VIII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (CLA), Miami, June 21, 2016
"Kate is highly intelligent, articulate and extremely well versed in relevant international arbitration procedure." Client quoted in Chambers USA 2021

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