Jesus Rodriguez Davalos Energy Lawyer of the Year Mexico

Firm Profile

Rodríguez Dávalos Asociados (RDA) is a specialized Law Firm, with more than 15 years of cumulated experience, with national and international

regulatory and commercial

expertise in the energy industry, especially in Mexico. RDA has highly skilled attorneys and consultants with practice not only in the Oil, Gas, and Power Industries, but also in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking, Finance, Foreign Investment, Procurement, Government Contracts and Public Works, Commercial Matters, Industrial Property and Rights of Way.

RDA has a very substantial and proven record in infrastructure projects (natural gas, LPG, LNG, crude oil E&P, basic petrochemicals, sulphur, gas and liquids transportation pipelines, fuel management

projects and finance and credit business

development, power generation, cross-border transactions,

facilities, guarantees, risk management mechanisms and

techniques, Mexican, U.S., and international industry standards and best practices, purchase and sale agreements, transportation, storage, and exchange agreements, maritime trade agreements, and corporate governance, administration and counseling).

RDA is skillful in completing agreements with the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) & its subsidiaries, the Ministry of Energy, and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), in all business stages: (i) planning, (ii) development, (iii) negotiation, (iv) operation and (v) management.

RDA is deeply engaged in offering value-added and integrated services to our clients to successfully achieve and develop projects; as well as rendering the most qualified representation.

Jesus Rodriguez Davalos

Jesús Rodríguez Dávalos is the founding member & Senior Partner of RDA since 1995. Mr. Rodriguez´ experience in strategic legal, business development, governmental, political and cross-cultural

matters has allowed him to identify and leverage opportunities on behalf of clients within rapidly evolving regulatory and policy frameworks. He has led several large scale Power Generation Projects throughout Mexico (IPPS, self supply, small producers, and several other different technologies), as well as the largest natural gas and LP Gas transportation projects (more than 2,000 kms of transportation pipelines built since 2000). Proven experience in successful E&P multiservice contracts and incentive agreements negotiations with Pemex. His experience through all these years has leveraged extensive upstream and downstream projects’ knowledge with insights into the Mexican regulatory framework, and several projects’ successful development and implementation.

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Mr. Rodríguez has positioned RDA as a trending energy law and consulting firm focused on the oil, gas and other areas in the energy sector. He works with highly experienced lawyers and consultants who have also participated in several energy projects (most of them “first of a kind” projects), such as Mexico's only cross-border LPG transportation pipeline, the negotiation and execution of the first interconnection agreement to the Pemex´ LP Gas pipeline, execution of NAESB agreements for power generation companies, IPPs and natural gas LDCs in northern Mexico, as well as the negotiation of the Operating Balance Agreement for the first operative SWAP of natural gas in Mexico. His input was outstanding for the execution of the contracts

for Main Areas of Practice

Oil & Gas (Natural Gas and Liquefied Petroleum Gas)

Commercial & Business Development Professional Legal Services Power Generation Renewables

Government Sector Purchases (Bidding Processes, Direct Assignments)

Environmental M&A

Maritime Activities related to the Energy Sector Project Finance

Notable Legal Work

Among the most notable legal work, RDA lawyers formed the leading group of the project Los Ramones Natural Gas Transportation System, which is the largest natural gas transportation system in Mexico. A 1,021 km long pipeline project meant to transport imported natural gas from the United States of America (USA) to the centre and west of the country. RDA also participated from a legal, permitting and commercial negotiation standpoint in the project to close one of the world's largest landfills, the 927-acre “Bordo Poniente” Landfill in Mexico City; a project that will stem the city's largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while creating renewable energy and local jobs.

the first private ethane

transportation pipeline in Mexico. Regarding renewable energy, he has been involved in the preparation and granting of permits for Wind and Solar Power Generation Facilities, throughout Mexico. All of the abovementioned projects, among others, represent national and foreign investments for over USD$5.5bn.

Contact

Tel: +52 55 5202 0405 Fax: +52 55 5202 3772 Web: www.rdabogados.com.mx

Jesús Rodríguez Dávalos E: jrodriguez@rdabogados.com.mx

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