Francisco’s practice centers on international arbitration and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in all phases of the international project life-cycle from the drafting of tailored dispute resolution clauses to confirming and enforcing arbitral awards through existing conventions and investment treaties. 

Francisco has served as arbitrator and party representative in ad hoc and administered disputes under international (including the ICC, ICDR, LCIA, and the SCC) as well as regional administrating forums (not limited to the AAA, BCC, CANACO, LCC). He likewise advises on investment treaty-arbitration. Francisco has counseled clients on pre- and post-judgment attachments proceedings, the pursuit and application of interim and injunctive measures, and in the obtaining of evidence for use in domestic and international proceedings.

Francisco regularly serves as managing counsel to companies with assets, controversies, or interests domestically and throughout Latin America. He likewise supports clients on investigations, monitoring, and compliance matters in the United States (FCPA) and abroad.

Francisco is an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center, co-teaching the course, International Risk Management in Oilfield Services Projects and has guest lectured at the University of Alabama School of Law and the University of Houston on International Commercial Arbitration. He is currently Houston Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity Committee and has overseen and participated in tens of asylum cases through the Human Rights Initiative (“HRI”).