Phone: +52 (55) 5201-7400
Mail: gcalvillo@macf.com.mx
Counsel since 2018
Gabriel focuses his practice on compliance, corporate criminal liability, white collar crimes and environmental litigation. His experience comes from the practice of criminal law, both private and public sectors.
Gabriel has been criminal counsel in corporate criminal matters for more than ten years, as well as Head of the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Attorney General´s Office in matters particularly close to corporate activity, such as crimes against the environment, corporate homicide and industrial related offences. He specializes in complex corporate criminal liability cases and criminal compliance.
In his environmental practice, Gabriel regularly represents corporations in complex litigations cases, as well as buyers and sellers in environmental and compliance due diligence. He worked as General Counsel for the Federal Environmental Enforcement Agency (PROFEPA), Litigation Director General at the Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry, as well as Head of Environmental Crimes Division of the Federal Department of Justice. In private practice he represented corporations for more than ten years in complex environmental damage and toxic torts cases.
Gabriel has a long history in the regulatory, law enforcement and compliance field in environmental and human rights matters, which allows him to incorporate real procedural criteria and experiences into the prevention, risk analysis and compliance models of our Firm. Gabriel was in charge of the design and implementation of the Federal Law on Environmental Responsibility, which addresses central issues of compliance, climate responsibility and ESG litigation, as well as a litigator and prosecutor specializing in business crimes that expose people to criminal liability. due to failures in control, surveillance and good governance.
January 24th, 2024
We are pleased to share with you that Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes SC, has been recognized for the second consecutive year by The Legal 500 Green Guide: Latin America 2024 for our outstanding practice in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) matters.
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October 3rd, 2023
On September 18, 2023, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit ("SHCP" as per its acronym in Spanish), published the Sustainable Financing Mobilization Strategy (the "Sustainable Financing Strategy").
Professional Related: Adriana Morales , Gabriel Calvillo , Martín Sánchez , Paula Pérez
September 28th, 2023
On September 22, 2023, one of the first precedents interpreting the law of corporate criminal liability regime in México was published by our federal Courts.
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August 1st, 2023
We invite you to refer to Chapter 20 "Compliance as the Foundation for ESG Oversight," published in the latest edition of "The Guide To Corporate Compliance" by Latin Lawyer, in which our partner Martín Sánchez, Counselors Gabriel Calvillo and Adriana Morales, and our Associate Paula Pérez collaborated.
Professional Related: Adriana Morales , Gabriel Calvillo , Martín Sánchez , Paula Pérez
March 29th, 2023
Mexico's Sustainable Taxonomy (the "Taxonomy"), a classification tool created through a broad, participatory, and coordinated three-year process to identify and define activities with positive effects on the environment and society, following technical criteria and international standards was presented on March 16, 2023 by Gabriel Yorio, assistant secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit “Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público” (“SHCP”) within the framework of the 2023 Banking Convention.
Professional Related: Adriana Morales , Gabriel Calvillo , María Fernanda Castellanos , Martín Sánchez , Paula Pérez , Rodrigo del Valle
August 5th, 2022
Aware of the growing interest of companies to adopt standards and promote Environmental, Social and Governance (ASG or ESG) projects in Mexico and the world, we are pleased to announce the integration of our capabilities in transactional, compliance and litigation matters in a single ESG practice area and the launch of our ESG/Compliance platform.
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August 4th, 2022
On Friday, July 29, 2022, the Decree establishing the immediate action plan to address the emergency due to the shortage of drinking water for urban and domestic public use in the Municipalities affected by the pandemic was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. low availability in its supply sources and due to drought in the State of Nuevo León (the “Decree”), which establishes certain provisions as part of the action plan to address the emergency due to the shortage of drinking water, the most relevant being:
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March 11th, 2022
The Official Mexican Standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT-2021 (the “NOM”), was published today in the Federal Official Gazette, such NOM sets forth the permissible limits of pollutants in wastewater discharges to national water bodies; the NOM leaves without legal effect the first regulation on wastewater discharge published twenty-five years ago.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo , Paula Pérez
April 27th, 2021
On April 26, 2021, the Decree (the "Decree") amending several provisions of the Sustainable Forestry Development General Law (the "Law") was published in the Federal Official Gazette ("DOF" by its acronym in Spanish). The main amendments published in the Decree include the following matters:
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo , Paula Pérez
March 3rd, 2021
Know more about the Agreement by which the Code of Ethics in Electronic Commerce is issued, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on February 26, 2021.
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August 24th, 2020
COVID-19. the ministry of the environment and natural resources resumes the deadlines and statutory terms due to the covid emergency.
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July 30th, 2020
On July 22, 2020, the Decree 257/2020 was published introducing reforms to the Criminal Code of the State of Yucatan that explain in detail the content of corporate criminal compliance programs in Mexico.
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July 6th, 2020
Wilkie: LATAM COVID-19 Task Force – Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo , Martín Sánchez , Patricio Trad
July 3rd, 2020
Amendments to the resolution published on May 29, 2020 by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, due to the COVID 19 health emergency.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo
July 1st, 2020
SEMARNAT extends the deadline for the submission of the Annual Operation Card and other procedures related to the National Registry of Emissions.
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June 3rd, 2020
New extension of non-business days period of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, due to the COVID-19 health emergency
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May 4th, 2020
New extension of non-business days period of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, due to the COVID-19 health emergency.
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April 20th, 2020
As a consequence of the measures ordered by Mexico’s General Health Council and Ministry of Health to prevent and combat the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19, on April 17, 2020.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo , Paula Pérez
April 16th, 2020
The amendment to the Sustainable Forest Development Law extends the federal jurisdiction for forestry land use change authorizations that now include urban areas and certain agricultural lands and extends corporate criminal liability associated to environmental crimes.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo , Paula Pérez
April 15th, 2020
On April 13, 2020, a Decree was published in Mexico’s Federal Official Gazette in order to amend, add and eliminate certain provisions set forth in the Dumping of Wastes in the Mexican Marine Zones Act (the “Decree”).
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo , Paula Pérez
April 14th, 2020
Inter Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ("IACHR") Resolution 01/2020 states that companies have a key role to play in the health crisis and warns of the risks of restricting their rights. At the same time, it requires companies to be monitored by governments and held accountable for their abuses, recommending that they adopt human rights due diligence processes.
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April 7th, 2020
Criminal compliance, protection of personal sensitive data and anti-corruption implications arising from the federal and state Administrative Orders issued in connection with the SARSCoV2 virus disease epidemic ("COVID-19")
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March 26th, 2020
On March 24, 2020, a Decree was published in Mexico’s Federal Official Gazette in order to determine the period considered as non-business days regarding administrative acts and procedures managed by the SEMARNAT and its administrative agencies (the “Decree”).
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November 26th, 2019
On November 19, 2019, the Federal Republican Austerity Act (LFAR) was published along with reforms to the General Administrative Liability Act (LGRA) in the context of the National Anticorruption System.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo
November 26th, 2019
On November 8, 2019, relevant legal reforms were published in relation to the Federal Law Against Organized Crime, the National Security Law, the National Code of Criminal Procedures, the Tax Code of the Federation and the Federal Criminal Code.
Professional Related: Gabriel Calvillo
August 26th, 2019
The National Law on the extinction of domain in the context of criminal Compliance
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March 26th, 2019
Our counsel Gabriel Calvillo, leader of the Corporate Criminal Responsibility and Compliance Practice, shares his opinion about Corporate Homicide in this publication by El Economista.
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