Gabriel Calvillo

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.

+52 (55) 5201 7468
gcalvillo@macf.com.mx
Languages
  • Spanish.
  • English.

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Education
  • Master of Laws LL.M, Georgetown University Law Center, 1997.
  • Specialization in Accusatory Criminal System and Oral Litigation, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales, 2014.
  • Law Degree, Universidad Iberoamericana, 1994.
Experience
  • General Counsel, Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Medio Ambiente.
  • Head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Unit, Fiscalía General de la República. (promoted the creation of the Special Prosecutor's Office for the Attention of Crimes Against the Environment).
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Cliente satisfecho estrechando la mano con un abogado: Cliente feliz con servicio legal en Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes S.C.

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November 15, 2024
On November 13, 2024, the Chamber of Representatives approved the initiative to amend Article 19 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM), which provides the list of offenses warranting mandatory preventive detention.
November 12, 2024
Mijares announces the incorporation of Jaqueline Aranda as counsel responsible for the new Foreign Trade area. This strategic addition will allow Mijares to offer comprehensive advice on foreign trade and customs matters, supporting its clients on key issues in all customs regimes, certification of origin, regulatory compliance and nearshoring.
November 14, 2024
On November 12, 2024, the Decree granting a deferral of the moment of accrual of the interest obtained in swap transactions which underlying indicator is the Interbank Equilibrium Interest Rate (“TIIE” for its acronym in Spanish) for a term of 28 days, converted into other swap transactions, and which underlying indicator is the Interbank Equilibrium Interest Rate for a term of one banking business day referred to as Funding TIIE (“TIIE de Fondeo”), in order for such transactions to be considered as a single integrated financial derivative transaction with the corresponding tax effects, was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation ("DOF").