León R. Hernández R.

León R. Hernández R. is a founding partner of Hernández, Zamanillo, Peña y Asociados and a specialist in Maritime Law, Port Development, Energy, Environmental and Insurance Law.

He has experience in issues related to salvage, collisions, cargo damage, subsidence, ship construction and international financing, chartering contracts, pollution, damage to reefs, insurance subrogation and reinsurance, international sale, claim evaluation, mediation and arbitration in Mexico as in the United States of America. He has represented national and foreign companies as ship owners, brokers, saviors, cargo insurers, P & I insurers, defense clubs, banks, insurers and reinsurers, state-owned companies, oil companies, general cargo terminals, oil, gas, and the first private terminals for the loading and unloading of petroleum products.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has completed various studies related to Resolution of Disputes under the FTA, Legal-Environmental Aspects for the Development of Priority Projects in Mexico, Foreign Trade, Mediation, Arbitration and International Judicial Procedures.

He is listed by WHO’S WHO LEGAL® Mexico and included for his achievements in the BEST LAWYER’S MEXICO list of Best Lawyers®.

Hernández, Zamanillo, Peña y Asociados

Hernández, Zamanillo, Peña y Asociados (H&Z) is a law firm founded in 2001, and whose partners accumulate more than 25 years of experience in various specialised branches of law in Mexico.

H&Z emerged with the mission of providing competitive legal services through personalised attention, something that is not possible to obtain from the big traditional companies.

H&Z offers a maximum level of response that allows its customers to make decisions in their business environment with a complete picture in a timely manner.

At H&Z we understand that, in order to adequately protect the interests of our clients, the offer of services we provide must be multidisciplinary, fostering close synergies that represent an added value in each contract of our office.

H&Z is an office that aspires to excellence in the provision of legal services, betting on innovation as a key to respond to the challenges of the present with an eye on the future.

Maritime Law is one of the most important inhouse areas in terms of experience and practice, allowing us to provide counselling to shipowners, charterers, mortgage creditors, P&I and Hull and Machinery underwriters, intermediaries and insurance agents, forwarders and cargo consignees, among others, in order to facilitate their operations in Mexico.