Ismael Reyes-Retana Tello joined White & Case in 2008, focusing in regulatory matters and administrative litigations, mainly related to telecomunications.

Before joining White & Case he worked in the public sector, with 25 years of experience collaborating with several agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration. His performance as Director General of Legal Studies of the Presidency, Deputy Legal Counsel to the President, and until February, 2008 as Federal Deputy Attorney General for Tax Matters and Deputy Counsel to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Subprocurador Fiscal Federal), has positioned him as a leading specialist in constitutional and administrative law in Mexico.

For a period of nine years he served as the Presidential delegate before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, managing constitutional controversies, during which time he participated in more than 250 constitutional cases spanning a broad range of matters, such as electric energy, antitrust issues, territorial limits conflicts, Integral Port Administration, tax exemptions, tax coordination, banking security and protection, the Federal Expense Budget, the audit by the House of Representatives to Fobaproa (FDIC equivalent), education decentralization, ecologic reserves, alternate airport of Mexico City, impeachment; international treaties, the labor framework applicable to decentralized organisms, Presidential appointment authority, constitutional reform with respect to indigenous groups, public security and social security.

Among his more recent collaborations is his participation in the constitutional controversies in which the Supreme Court declared that the Auditoría Superior de la Federación (equivalent to the U.S. General Accounting Office) is not entitled to order certain actions to the Federal Executive Branch. Likewise, he actively collaborated in the constitutional controversy by means of which the Supreme Court resolved that the President is entitled to veto the Federal Expense Budget.

Ismael Reyes-Retana also has experience in preparing legislative bills. While working for the Office of the Counsel to the President and the Office of the Federal Attorney General for Tax Matters, he helped to formulate several initiatives of constitutional and legal reform, and he also helped to draft Presidential decrees.

Additionally, Mr. Reyes Retana collaborated as legal advisor to the Federal Executive Branch in several transactions and in the implementation of governmental actions of great relevance.

Mr. Reyes-Retana has participated in several collegiate bodies within the Federal Government, notably including, among others, the Commission for Legal Studies of the Federal Government, the Interministerial Commission of Divestment, the Interministerial Commission of Expense and Financing, and the Governing Board of the National Institute of Statistics.

Bars and Courts
Authorized to practice law in Mexico

Education
Diplomatic Studies, Instituto Matias Romero, 1994
Program on Human Rights (Diplomado en Derechos Humanos), Universidad Iberoamericana, 1992
Attorney at Law (Abogado), Universidad Panamericana, 1990

Publications
"Tribunal Federal de Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa a los LXX años de la Ley de Justicia Fiscal" (obra colectiva), Ed. Tribunal Federal de Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa, México, 2006, 5 tomos
"Diagnóstico y propuestas sobre los sistemas de impartición de justicia en México" (obra colectiva), Ed. Themis y Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, México, 2004, 2 tomos
"Reflexiones en torno a la injerencia del Senado en el nombramiento de los empleados de la Unión", Nuestra Democracia (2007)
"Evolución histórica de la facultad del Presidente de la República para formular observaciones al Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación", Revista Mexicana de Justicia (2006)
"Alcances de la resolución de la controversia constitucional 91/2003", Nuestra Democracia (2005)
"Apuntes sobre los efectos de las resoluciones en las controversias constitucionales y acciones de inconstitucionalidad", Jurípolis (2005)
"La renovación del sistema de control constituciona", l Nuestra Democracia (2005)
"Delitos en materia de armas de fuego y explosivos", Revista Mexicana de Justicia (1999)
"La política exterior mexicana en el nuevo escenario internacional", Crónica (1994)
"México frente al arbitraje internacional: el caso de El Chamiza", l Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (1994)
"La conferencia mundial sobre los derechos humanos", Revista Mexicana de Justicia (1994)
"El procedimiento inquisitorial en el santo oficio", Revista Mexicana de Justicia (1993)
"Los derechos del niño", Boletín de la Procuraduría General de la República (1993)

Languages
Spanish

Citizenship
Mexico