Juan Francisco Torres Landa R

Mr Torres-Landa has been with the firm for over 25 years. He practices in the areas of civil, corporate and commercial law, project finance and acquisitions, foreign investment, international trade (antidumping investigations), arbitration, environmental law, antitrust, mining law, immigration and nationality law, non-resident taxation and telecommunications.

Mr Torres-Landa has been recognised as a leading attorney in his practice areas. In 2004 was named by Latin Lawyer as one of the top 40 lawyers in Mexico under 40 and in 2006 by the renowned magazine Poder y Negocios as one of the 13 most influential lawyers in Mexico.

Mr Torres-Landa has been a corporate law professor at both the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He is a member of the IBA, the Mexican Bar Association, was the co-chair of the Mexican Law Committee of the ABA and served as the president of the Harvard Club of Mexico.

Mr Torres-Landa has published several articles in law journals and specialist magazines, and has participated in many seminars dealing with legal orientation in Mexico.

Education: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Lawyer, 1988); Harvard University (LLM, 1990); Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (graduate course on Taxation, 1992).