Future of Energy Investments in Mexico
Hosted by IEL’s International Practice Committee
December 11, 2025
Webinar begins at 11:00 am Central
Duration: 1 hour
IEL: +1.972.244.3422
E-Mail: iel@cailaw.org
Overview
Mexico’s 2025 energy reforms mark a major turning point for the sector, expanding state control and redefining participation across the value chain. This panel brings together leading experts to unpack the legal, policy and financial dimensions of Mexico’s evolving energy framework; exploring how potential investors can navigate risk, access capital, and identify opportunities in a newly state centric market.
Webinar begins at 11:00 am Central
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers
Diego Hernandez Schmidt-Tophoff
Moderator
Chief Counsel, Sempra Infrastructure, Houston, TX
Diego serves as Chief Counsel for the ECA LNG Projects. In such endeavors, Diego is currently leading the efforts on the coordination, implementation, negotiation, and monitoring of legal matters related to the ECA LNG Project, in order to support business unit’s objectives.
Prior to joining the Sempra family, Diego spent +10 years in “Big Law” in US (Ny and Texas) and Mexico. His practice focused mainly on representing sponsors, multilateral and bilateral agencies, commercial bank lenders, and project developers in cross border and domestic project financings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, tax equity financing and structured finance transactions, across several energy sub-sectors including, renewable projects, LNG, Geothermal and fuel cell storage.
Francisco Fernández Cueto
Panelist
Galicia, Mexico City, Mexico
Francisco co-leads Galicia’s Energy and Infrastructure groups with a focus on project finance. Based in the Mexico City office, his practice focuses on energy matters with an emphasis on renewable electricity, conventional electricity and natural gas.
He advises clients in development, construction, financing (through project finance, project bonds and other structures), sector M&A transactions, joint ventures, and energy regulation and litigation as well as the operation and maintenance of small, medium and large-scale energy projects.
Pablo Zárate
Panelist
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Inc., Houston, TX
Pablo Zárate is a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment, based in Houston and Mexico City. Mr. Zárate focuses on developing and overseeing issue management programs to address high-stakes corporate challenges such as acute political risk, disputes, complex financial transactions, regulatory issues, and reputational crises.
During Mr. Zárate's time at FTI Consulting, he has provided strategy, communications, and issue management advice to boards of directors and senior management teams within a broad range of companies and trade associations, from leading Mexican groups to Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Zárate’s practice focuses primarily on energy, industrials, and infrastructure.
Before joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Zárate acquired significant policy, communications and politics expertise through his tenures serving as a government official (advising two Mexican cabinet agency heads), as a political consultant, and as an international advocacy fellow at a public affairs boutique firm in Washington D.C.
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MCLE Credit
Texas Course Number 174303267. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours, of which no credit hours will apply to ethics/professional responsibility credit.
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