Pablo Gutiérrez de la Peza Gutiérrez

Practice Areas

Agrarian, Real Estate and Infrastructure Law

Career

Partner of O’Gorman&Hagerman since 2012 and Managing Director since 2019, a Firm that provides specialized professional services in Land, Permits and Social License for infrastructure projects in Mexico. He has focused his professional practice on the audit, acquisition and defense of Land rights in Mexico, including negotiation of agrarian rights, release of rights of way and national lands. He advises his clients in the identification, elaboration of studies and obtention of licenses, Permits and authorizations required to develop their projects. He carries out studies, management plans and field accompaniment for the attention of community relations and that his clients maintain the Social License they require to operate, under a clear ethical line of transparency and social responsibility.

Publications

He degreed in 2016 with the thesis “Precautionary measures. A problem of fundamental rights”. Honorable mention for his exam.

He is an expert contributor to Mexico Business News, a platform where he publishes regular articles, and co-author of the book Repensar la Vivienda Suburbana, published by Arquine.

Personal

Since 2018, he has taught as an adjunct professor of Agrarian Law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He represented Mexico at the 2022 annual convention of the International Right of Way Association in Ohio, Cleveland, and participated as a lecturer in a Diploma and Seminar convened by the Procuraduría Agraria and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Clients

Under his direction, O’Gorman&Hagerman has represented public, national and foreign companies. He has also worked with investment funds, developers and private companies and has experience working for governmental entities, mainly at the federal level.

He has directed the release of right of way for highway projects, among others, for the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, and is co-author of the Manual for the audit of right of way transferred by PEMEX to CENAGAS. Some other clients he has counseled have been TC Energía (NYSE: TRP), Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ), Grupo México (BMV: GMEXICOB), Cementos Moctezuma (BMV: CMOCTEZ), Grupo Linde - Praxair (BMV: LINN, NYSE: LIN), Black Rock and Grupo Avanzia.

Work Highlights

Recently, he acted as an expert in agrarian and real estate law appointed by the Ministry of Economy of the Federal Government, in an international arbitration brought against Mexico by foreign investors before the ICSID.

Languages Spoken

English and Spanish

Education