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Mr. Francisco Javier Treviño Moreno
Administrative Law
Professional Background:
- Law degree from Universidad La Salle. (1980).
- Postgraduate degree in Senior Management of Public Companies. INAP. Mexico (1990)
- Postgraduate studies in Legal Systems in International Business. Escuela Libre de Derecho. (2001).
- National Award in Labor Law.
- Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the Ministry of Central American Economic Integration and the National Bank of Public Works and Services in infrastructure projects and financing.
- Legal Manager and Deputy Director of Financed Investment Projects of the Federal Electricity Commission and Legal Manager of the Federal Air Transport Agency.
- Corporate Manager of Puertos Mexicanos.
- Partner of the Law Firm Ríos Ferrer, Guillén-Llarena, Treviño, Rivera y Gutiérrez since 1999.
- Member of the board of directors of:
- The port service companies of Ensenada, Guaymas, Mazatlán, Manzanillo, Acapulco, Salina Cruz, Progreso, Coatzacoalcos, Veracrúz, Tuxpan, Tampico and Altamira.
- Port Workers' Pension Trust Fund
- Federal Electricity Commission.
- Reforma 222 Real Estate Complex.
Expertise:
- He is a recognized lawyer in Latin America in the areas of trust, transportation, energy, public-private partnerships and public procurement.
- He has participated in several successful projects of highways, port terminals, airports, rail mass transit systems, BRTs, telecommunications, electricity, gas, water and property developments.
- Advisor to government agencies in several countries, public companies, corporate clients and financial institutions.
Public-Private Partnerships
- He is an expert in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).
- He has collaborated in the development of public-private partnerships with the State Governments of:
- Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chiapas, Mexico, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Veracrúz, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Quintana Roo and Baja California.
- He has advised the governments of Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Peru on regulatory projects and the implementation of public-private partnerships.
- Founder and professor of the PPP's Diploma course taught at the Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico City campus.
- Professor of the Seminar on Public-Private Partnerships in the Law Degree and Master's Degree in Administrative Law at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.
- Guest Professor o the International Post-Graduate Program in Public-Private Partnerships at ESAN University in Lima, Peru from 2013 to 2019.
- He has taught several courses in the cities of Zaragoza, Spain; Guatemala, Guatemala; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Bogota, Colombia; Lima, Peru and Santiago de Chile, Chile, among others.
- Lecturer on PPPs at:
- Mexican Academy of Engineering (Academia Mexicana de Ingeniería)
- The Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados - BMA)
- Mexican Chamber of Construction Industry (CMIC)
- National Chamber of Consulting Companies (CNEC)
- College of Civil Engineers of Mexico
- Infrastructure Financing Advisory Group (Grupo Asesor en Financiamiento de Infraestructura (GAFI))
- National Institute of Public Administration
- National Bank of Public Works and Services
- Guatemala School of Government
Transport
- He collaborated with the Ministry of Communications and Transportation in the development of the Highway Concession Scheme implemented in 2003.
- He developed the PPS model for toll roads.
- He has participated in the structuring, awarding and execution of more than 20 highway concessions.
- Preparation of the master concession agreement awarded by the SCT to FONADIN, related to more than 50 concessions.
- System 1 of the suburban train Cuautitlán-Buenavista-Huehuetoca route.
- System 2 of the suburban train Jardines de Morelos-Martín Carrera route
- System 3 of the suburban train Chalco-La Paz-Constitución de 1917 route.
- Elevated train Polanco-San Jerónimo
- Trans-peninsular Train Mérida-Ciudad del Carmen-Cancún.
- Veracrúz-boca Del Río Trolley
- Development of the legal-financial model for the BRT system in the State of Mexico.
- Study of the Integral Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (Pimus) of La Laguna.
- La Laguna BRT Trunk Corridor in Durango and Coahuila.
- Legal Feasibility Study for Public Transportation Corridor Vasconcelos – Lázaro Cárdenas, San Pedro Garza García, N.L.
- Study for the Design of the Federal Program to Support Mass Transportation (Protram)
- Study for the Development of a National Policy on Urban Mobility
- Manzanillo Container Terminal II
- Puerto Cortés, Honduras Container Terminal
- PEMEX terminal at the Port of Matamoros, Tamaulipas
- Railway Restructuring of the Port of Veracrúz
- Structuring of the Cargo Terminal of the New Airport of Mexico City.
Energy:
- He developed the legal-financial models for the construction of power plants, gas pipelines, high-voltage power transmission lines and substations under private investment schemes:
- Samalayuca II thermal power station, 700 MW. o Mérida III thermal power station, 450 MW.
- Submarine power cable to the Island of Cozumel.
- Coal handling terminal for the Plutarco Elías Calles power plant.
- Lease of CFE's Transmission infrastructure for the installation of telecommunications networks.
- Cozumel Thermal Station under a self-supply scheme.
- Liquefied Natural Gas plant in the State of Baja California.
- Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas.
- Negotiation of power plant O&M contracts.
- Provision of service agreement for the reduction of losses in the Republic of Honduras.
- Electrical power transmission model with private participation in Mexico.
Draft Laws
- He has participated in the drafting of several laws and administrative regulations in Mexico:
- Public-Private Partnerships Law
- Law of Public-Private Partnerships for the State and Municipalities of Quintana Roo
- Draft of the New Public Works Law
- Natural Gas Regulations
- The Energy Regulatory Commission Act
- Law of Roads, Bridges and Federal Motor Transportation
- Honduras:
- Development of the electric power model implemented in Honduras and drafter of the General Law of the Electricity Industry.
- Regulations for the Nomination of Commissioners of the Energy Regulatory Commission
- Capacity and Energy Procurement Regulations
- Guatemala:
- Regulations of the Law of Alliances for the Development of Economic Infrastructure (BID).
- Guatemala's Road Infrastructure Draft Law. (FUNDESA)
- Perú:
- Review of the draft Framework Law to Promote Private Investment through Public-Private Partnerships and Asset-Based Projects (World Bank)
- Framework Law for the Acquisition and Expropriation of real property, transfer of real property between public entities, release of Interferences and dictate other measures for the execution of Infrastructure Works (World Bank)
Water
- Structuring of the project for the installation and operation of a Seawater Desalination Plant for the City of Ensenada, Baja California.
Gas Pipelines and Transmission Lines
- Wayco, Texas-Samalayuca, Chihuahua Gas pipeline.
- Ciudad Pemex-Valladolid Gas pipeline.
- Veracrúz-Campeche Ethanol Pipeline
- Management for the Acquisition of Land for the Ethane Transportation Project in the States of Tabasco and Veracrúz.
- Release of right-of-way for the construction of electrical infrastructure.
Social Infrastructure
- Government Civic Center of Honduras in Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.
- Building of the National Commission of Banking and Insurance.
International activities
- Director of the project for the "Regional Strengthening of the Legal, Regulatory and Institutional Framework for Road Concessions in the eight countries of the Puebla-Panama Plan (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama)".
- Honduras
- Coordinator of the National Banking Commission Building Project Coordinator of the Government Civic Center Project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Lafise Bank)
- Coordinator of the Project for Loss Recovery and Modernization of the Public Lighting System in Honduras. (Lafise Bank)
- Coordinator of the Specialized Container Terminal Project of Puerto Cortés. (Ficohsa Bank)
- Advisor to the Project for the reduction of losses in the electric power distribution system of the National Energy Company (Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica). (Ficohsa Bank)
- Advisor for the West Boulevard Project - Exit to Tela. (IFC)
- Guatemala
- Bypass to the City of Guatemala through the interconnection of the CA-09 North - CA-01 East highways. (PRONACOM)
- Development of prequalification conditions, bidding conditions and a public-private partnership agreement, as standard model documents. (ANADIE)
- Development of the bidding and prequalification conditions for the Tecún Umán II Dry Port project on the Guatemala-Mexico border. (ANADIE)
- State Administrative Center Project. (ANADIE)
- Colombia
- Analysis of barriers to the efficiency of public-private partnership processes and proposal for legal modifications (INCO)
- Methodology for the prioritization of projects to be carried out under PPP schemes (INCO)
- Analysis of the organization of the National Institute of Concessions and improvements proposal. (INCO)
- Concession of airports Ernesto Cortissoz - Barranquilla, el Edén - Armenia, Benito Salas Vargas - Neiva, Guillermo León Valencia - Popayán and Santa Ana – Cartago”, under public-private partnership schemes. (ANI)
Trade union activities
- Coordinator of the Regulations and Legislation Committee of the Mexican Association of Civil Engineers.
- Vice President of the Executive Committee of the National Chamber of Consulting Firms.
- Coordinator of the Infrastructure Committee of the Mexican Bar Association.
- Secretary of the Mexican Road Association (Asociación Mexicana de Caminos)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Architects Association of Mexico City (Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México-Sociedad de Arquitectos Mexicanos).
Publications:
He has participated in the publication of several works, including the following:
“Labor Law Regime for Administrative Workers of Autonomous Public Universities”..
Mexico. Government of the State of Jalisco. 1982.
“The Trust and Infrastructure Projects”..
Mexico. Institute of Legal Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas). UNAM. 1996.
“Environmental Law in North America and the Mexican Electricity Sector”..
Mexico. Institute of Legal Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas). UNAM. Mexico. 1997.
“Constitutionality of PEMEX's Multiple Service Contracts”..
El Foro Magazine. The Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados). 2002.
“Public Works in Mexico”.
México. Porrúa. 2007.
“Public Infrastructure in Mexico: Regulation and Financing”.
Mexico. Institute of Legal Research. UNAM. 2010.
"The New Law on Public-Private Partnerships, Thematized and Systematized".
México. Porrúa. 2014.
“Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in the Development of Infrastructure Projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Venezuela”..
Perú. Pan-American Federation of Consultants (FEPAC). 2019.
"Alternative Dispute Resolution"
Series: Technical Documents on Megaprojects. Washington. Inter-American Development Bank (BID). 2019.
"Public-Private Partnerships".
México. Porrúa. 2020.