Dario U. Oscos Coria, Esq.
Dario U. Oscós Coria is the director, founder and senior partner of Oscós Abrogados in Mexico City, where he specializes in insolvency, restructuring, creditors’ rights, litigation, arbitration and mediation in both domestic and international litigation within a wide variety of industries, including banking, securities, energy, oil, gas, construction, industrial property, copyright, torts, finance and telecommuni- cations. He is and acts as a Mexican legal expert in cross-border cases. Mr. Oscós successfully adjudi- cated the first two cases in the world that recognized and fully enforced another country’s insolvency proceedings under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, Xacur and IFS Financial Corp. He also successfully concluded a complex RICO action proceeding (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) with cross-border insolvency and criminal implications in the U.S., U.K. and Mexico. Mr. Oscós has participated in ICC and LCIA as an arbitrator in major oil and gas arbitrations, as well as major energy and construction disputes. In addition, he participates actively as International Insolvency Institute´s delegate at UNCITRAL Working Group V Insolvency and WG II Dispute Resolutions. Mr. Oscós has been a professor of procedural law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and Uni- versidad Iberoamericana, of insolvency at Universidad Panamericana, and of arbitration at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). He is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy, the American Law Institute (and Mexican delegate and adviser in its transnational insolvency project 1999), the International Insolvency Institute, the International Bar Association (for which he serves as Insolvency Section co-chair), INSOL International, Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados and Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México. He also is a lecturer and author of judicial literature. Previously, he was the senior litigator at Santamarina & Steta SC as well as the senior litigator and corporate lawyer at Grupo Financiero Banamex Accival. Mr. Oscós graduated from and was a professor of Procedural Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho. He studied conflict of laws as a postgraduate at Harvard University and studied postgraduate on constitutional and amparo law.