Juan Carlos Villar Flores

Juan Carlos Villar is a Partner of Villar & Villar Abogados, S.C., and co-heads the Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practice Group. His practice specializes in commercial litigation, mediation and arbitration, public and private construction disputes, corporate conflicts, and the negotiation of international contracts.

Villar serves as legal representative and advisor in Mexico for various Fortune 500 companies — including corporations within the Samsung, Michelin, Magna, CNH Industrial, and Mitsubishi groups — and provides legal advisory services to international companies in connection with their investments in Mexico.

His legal services have been recognized by leading international legal directories, including Best Lawyers, Leaders League, and Chambers and Partners, in the categories of Arbitration and Mediation, Privacy and Data Security Law, Administrative Litigation, Real Estate, and Dispute Resolution: Civil & Commercial Litigation, at both the Latin American and Global levels. He is a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the International Bar Association (IBA), and Young ITA (Institute for Transnational Arbitration). He served as Coordinator of the Young Arbitrators Committee, Bajío Chapter, of ICC México (April 2020 – April 2022), and was authorized by publication in the Official Federal Gazette on January 10, 2023, to serve as arbitrator in proceedings governed by the Federal Copyright Law.

Areas of practice include: Commercial litigation; National and international commercial arbitration; Mediation and alternative dispute resolution; Public and private construction disputes; Corporate conflicts; Drafting and negotiation of international contracts; Legal advisory to foreign companies with investments in Mexico.

Villar earned his Law Degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro with honors (J.D. equivalent), an institution where he also completed a Specialization in Constitutional Law and Amparo, a Specialization in Notarial Law, and graduate studies in State and Municipal Public Administration. He also holds a Master's in Corporate Legal Advisory from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He has additionally completed various courses, seminars, and diploma programs, including Diploma Programs in International Commercial Arbitration offered by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Universidad Anáhuac, as well as by the Centro de Mediación, Arbitraje y Conciliación (CEMAC – MASC).

Villar is the author and co-author of articles, essays, e-books, and legal publications, and has lectured on commercial law, commercial arbitration, and mediation at conferences, seminars, diploma programs, business forums, radio programs, and interviews, as well as at various universities and study centers across the country. He has served as arbitrator in the Interuniversity Commercial and Investment Arbitration Competitions (UP-ICC México Moot), organized by the School of Law of the Universidad Panamericana and ICC México. In March 2023, he placed first in the Notarial Essay Competition convened by the Colegio de Notarios de la Ciudad de México, A.C., the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas del Notariado, and the publisher Tirant lo Blanch.