Regulatory & Compliance

Insurance Coverage & Recovery

Daniel A. Rabinowitz | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

The amount of capital that insurers are required to hold on their balance sheets has become a regulatory and legislative flashpoint. A convergence of factors over the last few years – including federal rulemaking under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, oversight...

Energy

Steven P. Otillar | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: Please describe your practice, and tell us why Mexico is high on your radar screen. Otillar: My practice focuses on domestic and international energy transactional work, with an emphasis on upstream acquisitions, divestitures and development. I have represented energy companies and...

Energy

Miriam Grunstein | Baker Institute, Rice University

In December 2013, Mexico’s Congress approved constitutional reforms to the energy sector that liberalize the entire value chain of the hydrocarbon industry, open a wholesale electricity market, and propose a new institutional architecture for energy regulatory agencies. While the new...