Arbitration in Mexico

Mexico has played a major role in shaping the growth and development of international arbitration practice, in great part due to its global prominence at the competitive forefront of manufacturing, agriculture, telecommunications, finance, real estate, tourism, trade, and commercial transactions, all while crafting its own policies to achieve the energy transition. In addition, its close ties with the United States and Canada, as well as its important business relations with the rest of the world, have made Mexico a leading subject of investment treaty practice. This book, the most comprehensive English book on the subject, offers a thorough practical analysis of arbitration in Mexico in a variety of specific fields as well in-depth description and analysis of the role and attitude of national courts towards arbitration and of national, regional, and international arbitration institutions.

Written by the leading lights of Mexican arbitration practice and scholarship, the contributions clearly and succinctly disentangle complex but common issues arising in commercial and investment treaty disputes. Features of Mexico’s dynamic body of arbitration law and practice covered include the following:

• legal framework in which arbitration in Mexico operates;

• characterization of international arbitration principles by Mexican courts;

• cases which require decisions by a national court or authority;

• public policy and arbitrability;

• authority and duties of the arbitral tribunal;

• document production in the Mexican arbitration practice;

• judicial intervention in support of international arbitration;

• state entities as actors in arbitration disputes;

• hydrocarbons, power and M&A disputes;

• use of technology in arbitral proceedings; and

• quantum and damages.

This first comprehensive book in English on arbitration law and practice in Mexico provides an in-depth understanding of all of Mexico’s arbitration law and practice nationwide, practical guidance on identifying and assessing the different theoretical and practical legal avenues available, and relevant usages of ADR mechanisms in commercial disputes. It will prove of immeasurable value for arbitrators, judges, in-house counsel, Mexican state-owned companies, global law firms, large- and medium-sized companies doing transnational business, policymakers, and arbitration academics.