What are the most significant cases, projects, or transactions that you and your legal team have recently been involved in? [Please mark anything confidential clearly, and feel free to speak in general terms if you wish, we’re just trying to describe the sort of work your team has been engaged with over the past year]

This year, our focus has been on Fund II’s investment period, sourcing and assessing new opportunities. Our first completed investment this year was a $50 million investment in Quartux, a battery storage company, which required us to navigate Mexico’s new regulations on energy storage.

In addition, we have been fully engaged in analysing CFE’s new contratos mixtos scheme, a structure under which CFE retains majority control and reversion rights, while private capital provides funding for the project.

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crisis to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

We manage legal risks by studying new regulations at an early stage rather than reacting to them once they come into force, allowing us to anticipate developments and emerging trends.

How can general counsel foster a corporate culture that supports ESG principles and compliance across all levels of the organisation?

We embed ESG principles into our decision-making bodies and use external ratings, including UNPRI, GRESB and ALAS20, to encourage robust documentation practices and ensure meaningful implementation.

We also incorporate ESG standards into fund and portfolio company contracts, making them enforceable. In addition, we train the investment team, not just the compliance team, as investment professionals are often the first to identify potential red flags during due diligence.

What do you think is the greatest innovation you have enacted in the past year?

We have developed an AI-assisted workflow to accelerate the review and structuring of legal documents. AI carries out the initial extraction of information and flags key provisions, which the legal team then verifies and assesses.

This frees up the legal team’s time to focus on matters that genuinely require professional judgement, while ensuring that AI-generated output remains strictly a draft and is never treated as the final word.