
Francisco co-leads the firm’s Latin America Business Team and is former Co-Practice Leader of Reed Smith’s International Arbitration Group. He advises clients around the world on complex commercial, commodities, construction, energy, joint venture, mining, oil and gas, partnership, and renewables disputes – with a particular focus on Latin America.
Credentials
Awards & Recognition
- Selected for inclusion in the Texas Super Lawyers list for Business Litigation (2019)
- Selected by Latinvex as one of Top 100 Foreign Attorneys in Latin America, 2015-2020
- Legal 500 Latin America
- Selected by Texas Super Lawyers - “Up-and-Coming 100” identifying lawyers who ranked at the top of the list for 2017 and 2018
- Selected for inclusion in the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for Business Litigation (2007-2008, 2011, 2014-2018)
- Selected by Houston Business Journal as one of the “40 Under 40”, 2017
- Selected by Texas Lawyer as one of twenty “2016 Lawyers on the Rise”
- Selected by Latino Leaders magazine as a Top Latino Lawyer 2016 and 2018
- Selected as one of "Houston's Top Attorneys" by H Magazine
- Named as one of H Texas Magazine's "Professionals on the Fast Track 2009," January 2009