Lex Mex 2018

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PRESS RELEASE: LEX MEX 2018
LONDON UNITED KINGDOM- 2 OCTOBER 2018 For the 6th consecutive year, the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain, in partnership with The Law Society and The Bar Council will be hosting on 2 October the Lex Mex Conference 2018, at Bernard's In Hall, Gresham College in London.

LexMex was conceived to foster closer relations between English and Mexican legal professionals to discuss legal developments in Mexico, opportunities of collaboration within legal professionals, and exchange innovation and best practices within the legal profession. LexMex has become the ideal platform for UK barristers and solicitors to meet with their leading Mexican colleagues .

After five successful editions of LexMex, this year for the first time The Law Society, the Bar Council and the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in partnership with ANADE, BMA and INCAM organised a very successful English Legal Week in Mexico City.

Initiatives such as LexMex and the British Legal Week in Mexico are contributing to help English and Mexican lawyers in working together across a range of practices, such as fintech, oil and gas, maritime, international arbitration, corporate governance, anti-money laundering, and financial regulation, and in the development of the international practice of English and Mexican lawyers.

On this occasion, we are grateful to have as guest of honour Ministro Fernando Franco Gonzalez-Salas, Justice of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN).

Among those participating as speakers in LexMex, we will have H.E. Julian Ventura Mexican Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Nigel Baker OBE MVO Head of the Latin Americas for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Presidents of the three main Mexican bar associations (colegios de abogados) ANADE, Barra Mexicana, and Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México, Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the International Committee of the Bar Council, and representatives of Mexican Law firms such as Guerra González y Asociados, Marván González Graf y González Larrazolo, Malpica Iturbe, Buj y Paredes and Nader Hayaux and Goebel. Simon Davis, Vice president of the Law Society, The Hon. Justice Mac Gowen, and Lord Brennan QC Senior associate member of Matrix amongst other experts that will be updating the English and Welsh solicitors and barristers on legal developments in Mexico in sectors such as litigation, insolvency and bankruptcy, employment and social security, project finance, capital markets and financial services, as well as the expectations on the upcoming administration of President elect Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, challenges to the rule of law and international judicial collaboration.

LexMex will conclude with a dinner at the Grange City Hotel.

The Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain (MexCC) was formed in 2011 with the support of key stakeholders in the bilateral relationship to represent the Mexican private sector in the UK, support Mexican investors, businesspeople and traders enter the UK market, and UK investors, businesspeople and traders interested in doing business in Mexico and raise Mexico’s profile as a business partner, promoting Mexico as an investment and trade destination.

The MexCC is a non-for-profit private sector organization funded by its members and sponsors consisting of businesses from entrepreneurs to multinational corporations across a range of sectors like, energy, financial services, food & drinks, infrastructure, insurance, etc

The MexCC works in coordination with both Governments, their respective Embassies and promotion agencies, as well as with other private sector organisations in Mexico and the UK, and is the authoritative voice of the Mexican private sector before the international business community in London.

For more information about the Lex Mex and other events organized by the MexCC, please contact Milène Hayaux du Tilly (milenehayaux@mexcc.co.uk).

The Lex mex week will take place in London from the 1st to the 5th of October 2018
Our Main events will be: Tuesday 2nd October Conference & Dinner

Designed to foster closer relations between the English and Mexican legal professions, The MexCC with the collaboration of The Law Society ad the General Council of the Bar will organise a series of events during this week.

The MexCC will host Mexican and UK leading law firms to discuss recent developments their challenges for working in the jurisdiction as well as on the opportunities for collaboration between British and Mexican law firms.

The Lex Mex is an annual event organised by the MexCC to discuss the latest developments in Mexico impacting the legal industry and showcasing opportunities for collaboration between British and Mexican law firms for the benefit of their clients and the success of th ebilateral business relationship. We are proud to have once again the collaborationa and media partnership of The Law Society of England and Wales and the Bar Council.