Career Biography

Carlos is a senior executive and Chief General Counsel with more than three decades of legal experience advising boards of directors, investors, CEOs and CFOs, and managing in-house legal functions across all corporate affairs.
He has served as Chief General Counsel, Secretary of the Board of Directors, and Head of the Communications and Environmental Department at IDEAL (Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en América Latina, S.A.B. de C.V.) since 2004. Carlos has been General Counsel of IDEAL since the company’s creation and incorporation. He also leads the legal function of Grupo Carso’s oil and gas platform, covering both upstream and downstream operations.
In the energy sector, Carlos oversees all legal matters relating to projects involving oil and gas fields, both in shallow-water offshore areas in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore. He has negotiated and completed successive acquisitions of participating and equity interests in exploration and extraction contracts, including purchase agreements, farmouts, joint operating agreements and consortium structures. He has also led the related authorisation processes before CNH, SENER, ASEA, CONAGUA and CNA, including change-of-control approvals, operator substitutions and cesión de operaciones.
His energy practice also covers contratos mixtos and service contracts with Pemex; drilling and jack-up rig contracting; platform leases; hydrocarbon sale and measurement agreements; oilfield services procurement; OFAC sanctions compliance in cross-border transactions; and the corresponding disclosure requirements before the BMV and CNBV.