Experience
Veronica is a senior associate in the Civil and Commercial Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group, representing clients in judicial proceedings, arbitration, and before negotiators. Veronica obtained her LL.M. at University of California, Berkeley School of Law and studied her bachelor degree at Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, with honors; she also studied a year abroad at University of Essex.
She holds several diplomas and has participated in seminars in arbitration, including the Arbitration Diploma ICC Mexico – UDEM (2017) and the Arbitration Academy in Paris (2018).
She is the current regional coordinator for Latin America of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF) and current chair of the ICC Mexico’s Young Arbitrators Committee. Veronica has participated as a panellist in several national and international events related to arbitration and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, she has participated as arbitrator in the different UP-ICC Mexico Moot editions (2017, 2018 and 2019), and, recently has participated as adjunct professor in different postgraduate courses for the Dispute Resolution section, both at Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey and the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon.
Master in Construction Management. University of South California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (ongoing).
LL.M., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. (2014).
Law Degree, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, Mexico (2013).
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English.
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