Francisco heads 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, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, partnership, and renewables matters (including biomass, solar, battery storage, and wind) advocating in both English and Spanish. Francisco’s most recent representations involve large-scale disputes in: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, England, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and Venezuela.
Credentials
Awards & Recognition
- Included in the Jus Connect 2023 Powerlist of Most Active Male Arbitration Lawyers
- Ranked in Chambers USA for Texas Construction, 2023-2024 and Nationwide Construction: International Disputes, 2024
- “Highly recommended” in 2023-2024 edition of the Latin Lawyer 250 – Arbitration
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Arbitration, 2022-2025, and for International Arbitration - Commercial, 2024-2025
- Selected by Latinvex as one of Top 20 lawyers in Arbitration & Litigation in Latin America, 2021
- Selected by Latinvex as one of Top 100 Foreign Attorneys in Latin America, 2015-2023
- Selected for inclusion in the Texas Super Lawyers list for Business Litigation (2019)
- 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