ECIJA opens human rights practice in Mexico
Spanish law firm ECIJA has launched a human rights and corporate social responsibility practice in Mexico, and recruited Adalberto Méndez López as the practice’s head.
ECIJA opened an office in Mexico City in January of this year in a merger with local firm Chacón & Rodríguez.
Méndez López (pictured) has several years’ experience as a company lawyer, a public official and an international consultant in more than 17 countries in matters of corporate social responsibility and human rights.
He has worked at the United Nations Development Programme, the Inter-American Human Rights Institute (IIDH), USAID and Chemonics International, as well as at the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
He is one of few lawyers in the Americas who has participated in proceedings before three of the world’s four human rights protection institutions, and has authored books on the subject, according to the law firm.
Ricardo Chacón, managing partner of the firm’s Mexico office, said that the incorporation of Méndez López “reinforces not only our leadership in Mexico with a pioneering human rights practice in the country, but also responds to ECIJA’s aim to become the firm of reference in Latin America, where we have positioned ourselves as the Spanish law firm with the biggest presence on the continent”.
