Mrs Adriana Padilla Rivas > Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. Offices
Av. Pedregal 24, 10th floor
Molino del Rey
11040, Mexico City
Mexico
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Mrs Adriana Padilla Rivas
Work Department
Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Litigation, and Restructurings and Insolvency
Position
Partner
Career
Adriana Padilla joined the firm in 2015 and was named partner in 2022. She has more than 15 years of experience and has participated in several commercial and investment arbitrations, both as counsel and arbitrator, under the rules of several institutions such as ICC, LCIA, AAA-ICDR, ICSID, CANACO, CAM and others. She has extensive experience in dispute resolution in many fields such as M&A, infrastructure, energy, port, construction, retail and corporate, subject either to Mexican, international or foreign law. She also has vast experience in litigation related to arbitration, including judicial proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of awards and interim measures in arbitration.
In addition, Adriana has participated in multiple financial restructurings and insolvency proceedings, advising both companies and creditors, and also acted as counsel to the receiver.
Adriana worked as a Foreign Associate in Cleary Gottlieb, in New York, NY (2014-2015).
Languages
Spanish and English
Memberships
Member of International Bar Association
Education
Master of Laws in International Dispute Resolution – Queen Mary University of London (2021 – To date), London, UK.
Diploma on International Law and Legal Studies – The Center for American and International Law (2012), Texas, USA.
Bachelor of Laws, cum laude – Universidad Iberoamericana (2009), Mexico City, Mexico.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Dispute resolution: arbitration
(Next Generation Partners)Mexico > Bankruptcy and restructuring
Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.‘s bankruptcy and restructuring practice group is regularly involved in major corporate restructurings, with a particular track record in the finance, mining, satellite communications, real estate, and telecoms segments. Team members have experience acting as insolvency administrators, foreign representatives and liquidators in bankruptcy proceedings. Leadership of the practice is shared between Jean Paul Farah Chajín and Pablo Perezalonso Eguía. Farah’s broad practice takes in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate restructurings, and M&A; while Perezalonso is well-versed in the structuring and restructuring of secured and unsecured credit facilities for Mexican private and public-sector borrowers. Additional key contacts include finance, corporate, and capital markets practitioner Luis Nicolau Gutiérrez; and Adriana Padilla Rivas, who specialises in arbitration and insolvency mandates, and is lauded for providing solutions that are ‘tailored to the client’s best interests’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Mexico > Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Bankruptcy and restructuring Mexico