Salvador Fonseca

Practice Areas

Salvador has participated in international and local arbitrations under the rules of (or administered by) UNCITRAL, ICC, ICDR, AAA, LCIA, PCA, ICSID, IACAC, National Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City (CANACO) and Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM).

He is an expert in Dispute Boards and other ADR procedures.

He has litigated precedent-setting matters in Mexico and cases before the Mexican Supreme Court.

Career

• Fonseca, Rodríguez, Perchemlian & Martínez Abogados, Mexico City, 2020 – Currently. Partner.

• Holland & Knight, Mexico City 2018 – 2020. Partner.

• Baker & McKenzie, Mexico City, 2011 – 2018. Partner.

• Chadbourne & Parke, Mexico City, 2008 – 2011. Partner.

• Thacher Proffitt & Wood, Mexico City, 2005 – 2008. SeniorAssociate.

• Jáuregui, Navarrete y Nader, Mexico City, 2000 – 2005.Associate.

• Tequileña, S.A. de C.V., Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1995 – 1999. General counsel.

• Gonzalo Rosa y Asociados, S.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1994 –1995. Law Clerk.

• Pena Briseño Abogados, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1992 – 1994. Law Clerk.

• Integración Jurídica, S.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1991 – 1992. Law Clerk.

Professional Memberships

• Member of the Latin American Construction Law Association and Chair of its Arbitration Committee.

• International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), Mexican Advisory Committee, Chair.

• Member of the ICDR Panel of Arbitrators.

• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Mexico, Arbitration Commission and former Member of its National Nomination Commission.

• Member of the ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission.

• International Arbitrator, Chamber of Commerce of Lima.

• International Arbitrator, Chambers of Commerce of Bogota, Cali and Medellin.

• International Arbitrator, Chamber of Commerce of Costa Rica.

• Included in the list of arbitrators of other arbitral institutions in Latin America.

Publications

• Author, "The Separability of the Arbitral Clause and the Competence of the Arbitral Tribunal un Mexico". Arbitration in Mexico, Wolters Kluwer International (2023 - publication pending).

• Co-author, “Commercial Bankruptcies in Mexico During Times of COVID-19”. Holland & Knight, May 8, 2020.

• Co-author, “Arbitration and Alternative Mechanisms as Dispute Resolution Tools During COVID-19”. Holland & Knight, May 6, 2020.

• Co-author, “Is López Obrador Eroding Mexico’s Business Climate?”. Latin America Advisor - Inter-American Dialogue, May 6, 2020.

• Co-author, “Judge Grants Suspension Due to Absence of Fiscal Regulations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico”. Holland & Knight, April 10, 2020.

• Co-author, “Mexico’s Supreme Court Issues Jurisprudence on Appropriateness of Amparo Indirecto”. Holland & Knight, January 7, 2020.

• Co-author, “What President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Election Means to Business in Mexico”. Holland & Knight, July 2018.

• Co-author, “The Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico Clarifies the Limits of Powers of Attorney”. Holland & Knight, July 2018.

• Author, “The selection of the arbitrator in construction disputes”. Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce. October 2016.

• Co-author, “International Arbitration Checklist (3rd Edition)”. Baker & McKenzie. 2015.

• Co-author, “International Arbitration Yearbook”. Baker & McKenzie. April 2014.

• Co-author, “Procedural Aspects of the Financial Reform” ICD. March 2014.

• Co-author, “The New Amparo Law – Back to School”. Puntos Finos (a Thomson Reuters publication). May 2013.

• Co-author, “International Arbitration Yearbook”. Baker & McKenzie. April 2013.

• Author, “Arbitrations in the freezer — Are the arbitrators expected to be there for the parties just like Penelope?,” Kluwer Arbitration Blog, September 2011.

• Co-author, “Green Light for wide-ranging class action regulation, ”International Law Office (ILO), July 2011.

• Co-author, “Treatment of Bond Debt and Intercompany Claims under Mexican Bankruptcy Law,” Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, July 2011.

• Co-author, “Commercial oral proceedings promise greater flexibility, ”International Law Office (ILO), April 5, 2011.

• Co-author, “El Acuerdo Arbitral (Arbitral Law Treatise),” Collection of Studies Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje and Grupo Editorial Ibañez, March 2011.

• Author, “The joinder of third parties to the arbitration - Comments to the revision of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules,” Spain Arbitration Review, Issue 9, 2010.

• Author, “Constitutional amendment allows class actions,” International Law Office, October 12, 2010.

• Co-author, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Commercial Arbitration, Themis, June 2010.

• Co-author, “Civil procedure reform in Mexico City - a positive start,” International Law Office, May 25, 2010.

• Author, “MEXICO: Expanded access to arbitration in Mexico,” Global Arbitration Review Journal, September 9, 2009.

• Author, “Commentary on the Convention Between Mexico and Spain Regarding the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments and Arbitral Awards,” Spain Arbitration Review, March 2008.

• Author, “Dispute Resolution Clauses in PFI Contracts,” CANACO Arbitration Bulletin, September 2007.

• Author, “Mexico: Courts Take Pro-Arbitration Stance,” Global Arbitration Review, 2007.

• Co-author, “Arbitration in Mexico,” Arbitration of the Americas 2007, November 2006.

• Author, “The Deliberative Sessions of the Collegiate Circuit Courts Should be Public,” Legal Certainty: Diagnosis and Proposals, Mexican Bar Association, Themis, 2006.

• Author, “Requirements of an Appeal to be Admitted in Mexico,” The Search of a Constitutional Theory, Mexican Bar Association, Themis, 2005.

Personal

Academic Experience

• Professor of Law at the Universidad Panamericana (dispute resolution, arbitration and civil procedure law).

• Former professor of Law at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C. (arbitration and civil procedure law).

• Guest lecturer at Miami University School of Law (International Arbitration in Mexico).

• Guest lecturer at Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru (International Arbitration).