Prof. Europe and Middle East Partner - DR. Hernany Veytia (LL.M. YALE)

Her practice covers all types of international investment, including climate change, foreign trade, dumping, concession contracts, energy, mining, natural resources, construction, automotive, international sales, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, licensing, intellectual property, franchising, maritime, railroad, insurance, environmental, finance and banking. Also handles public international law disputes including ICSID, NAFTA and bilateral investment treaty arbitrations. She has represented private companies, state-ownedand, inter-governmental organizations, sovereign governments and private individuals. She has represented parties from more than twenty five countries on five continents in international commercial and investment projects involving foreign investment, privatization, coal, and hydro power plants, oil and gas trade related matters, mining, tourism projects, project finance and development agreements, franchising, and information technology. She has also advised parties before inter-governmental tribunals, including the International Court of Justice. Former partner at Deloitte Consulting firm, Chief Counsel for Business Transactions at DaimlerChrysler, and attorney at the former Atlantic Bank (now HSBC) .

She has been scholar, lecturer and visiting professor at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, (Laussane); United Nations University at Amman, Jordan, Universidad Iberoamericana and Panaericana in Mexico, Max Planck Institute Munich and Hamburg, ASADIP in all Latin American and Caribean countries, resident fellow at the Unviersity of Rome, Study Center for Comparative and Foreing Law. Chair of UNIDROIT Model Law on Franchising, ICC Task Force on Law and Business Practices. Author of more than hundred publications on international business transactions