Ernesto Velarde Danache
President & Founder
Main Office – Brownsville, Texas

Telephone: (956) 548 9098
Fax: (965)548 1656
evd@velardedanache.com

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Education

• Law Degree from “Universidad Regiomontana”, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 1982.
• L.L.M from the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England
• United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland
• Hague Academy of International Law, The Netherlands

Practice Areas

• International Law
• Governmental Relations & Lobbying
• Labor & Employment
• Corporate
• Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition.
• Mexican Tax Law
• Real Estate
• Customs & Immigration

Active Member

• Economic Development Promoter for  the State of Tamaulipas
• Brownsville Economic Development Council “BEDC”
• Matamoros Economic Development Committee “CODEM”
• McAllen Economic Development Corporation “MEDC”
• Reynosa Maquiladora and Manufacturing Association “RAMMAC”
• US-Mexico Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• Cambridge Graduate Lawyers Association
• Toastmasters International

Speaking Engagements

• “Doing Business in Mexico”
• “Labor Environment in Mexico”
• “Mexican Immigration and Business Visas”

Languages

• Spanish
• English
• French
• Italian

Ernesto Velarde’s experience includes:

• He was the Mexican Representative to the International Year of Peace Conference held at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. 
• He is a member of the Cambridge Graduate Lawyers Society and the National. Association of Corporate Lawyers of Mexico and the Mexico City Bar.
• He has been associated with the largest Corporate Law firm in Mexico City as well as with a local International law firm in Brownsville, Texas.
•  In 1988, he started his own practice as a Mexican lawyer with offices in Brownsville further extending to Reynosa and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in order to provide legal services to the local Maquiladora industry. 
• He has spoken about doing business in Mexico in many different countries such as the United States, Canada, Italy, France, England, Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, The Netherlands, China, India, Singapore and Korea.
• For more than 13 years he has been the host of a live Mexican television show by the name of “Con Sentido Comun”, which airs live in Mexico and Texas every Monday evening on channel 7, Televisa.