Letter from the Managing Partner

Given the lack of efficiency of legal procedures in different matters offered by domestic law, the modern solution, both in developed and developing countries, is to resort to international dispute settlement systems, as well as to the mechanisms of institutional protection derived from specific treaties in certain matters. Both the good achievement of commercial businesses, far-reaching credit operations, intellectual property and the security of foreign investments, epidemiological safety and salubrity, international double taxation, diplomatic immunities and internationally protected persons, commercial loyalty, regulation of renewable energies and actions aimed at the legal protection of ecology and even fundamental rights in its different areas, tend to find their most effective solution in international instances, whether permanent or arbitral, which end up redirecting the deficiencies of national rights and definitively put a stop to the damage to people and companies.

The vocation of this Firm is the prioritization of international law as an instrument for the fulfillment of the purposes of individuals in all their dimensions. The Firm has developed the necessary experience to cover all the jurisdictional or arbitral instances that may be necessary for any type of controversy or to implement any form of reparation that may be necessary. In this sense, the ability to react to all types of matters without exception that require the use of international law, even with incidences in the national law of the State, are provided for in the spectrum of available services.

Our profesional experience has also been developed in the exercise of constitutional control procedures in Mexico, particularly amparo proceedings, unconstitutionality actions and constitutional controversies. This in the growing context worldwide that such mechanisms are fed by the developments of international law in different areas. In this way, taxation, punitive rights, private contracts, labor standards and administrative regularities, accompany their own domestic developments, the force of legal supranationality.

As a professional group, we are able to act in all areas of arbitration, in its different legal forms of international establishment. That is, either through the use of commercial arbitration provided for in the bilateral or multilateral treaties to which Mexico is a party; the arbitrations that they require the recognition of jurisdiction for each case, or the possible mediations that are agreed upon in the specificity of certain business. Representation before commissions or courts on fundamental rights in the Americas, on other continents or in universal forums on human rights is also within the action threshold of this Office. We also have the experience to go to conciliatory systems within different international agencies, which includes forums related to territorial disputes and the law of the sea. In recent events, this Firm has had its first works with matters of State representations before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Whatever the opinion held on this point, the truth is that at the current height of times, all controversies call for international law as the legal instrument for improving legal relations between people, between companies and between States. Neither does matter the sciences or arts that are professed, today everything is imbricated with general international law.

 

Ph.D. Juan de Dios Gutiérrez Baylón.