Biography
Yves Hayaux-du-Tilly is a partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel and has been advising for over t0 years multinationals, Mexican and foreign investors in mergers & acquisitions and financing transactions, as well as in corporate and governance matters related to their operations in Mexico and Latin America.
He is recognised as one of LatAm’s leading experts in insurance and reinsurance derived from his particularly strong background and transactional experience representing companies within the insurance and financial industries and his excellent track record handling regularly handling regularly high-end transactions and disputes for leading clients of the insurance and financial sector.
He has been leading NHG’s pioneering London office established back in 2010, bringing NHG’s expertise on Mexican law to the London market and advising clients from the insurance sector on their reinsurance operations with Mexico and Latin America. He is responsible for NHG’s highly regarded and undisputed leading (Re)Insurance Practice, as well as for the innovative Working Group formed by NHG to support its clients in their Sustainable/ESG Transition.
Yves regularly advises leading international corporations and multinationals and acts as Mexican co-counsel to international law firms in transactions and business involving Mexico and Latin America.
Yves is a dedicated lawyer who, besides taking the time for each of his clients and matters, finds time to serve the community by participating in different professional associations. He formed the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain (MexCC) in 2011, served as its chair from 2011 to 2019, and currently serves as honorary chair of the MexCC. He served as chair of the Mexican Association of Insurance and Bonding Law (AMEDESEF), is currently a member of the Presidential Council of the International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA), a member of the Unión Social de Empresarios Mexicanos (USEM), the first Mexican honourary member of the Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR), a member of Chapter Zero UK (the Director’s Climate Forum), and the founder and co-chair of Chapter Zero Mexico, the Climate Governance Initiative), a member of the Governing Board of the Climate Governance Initiative. He is a former chair of the Financial Law Committee of the Mexican Association of Corporate Counsel (ANADE), a former chair of the Mexican Committee of the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association (ABA).
Yves regularly advises the subsidiaries of all major international companies operating in Mexico and Latin America and leading Mexican insurers, including Assurant, AXA, BUPA, BNP Paribas Cardif, Chubb, Dentegra, GNP, MetLife, Principal, Secured Legal Title, The Travelers Companies, Sofia Salud and Zurich. He currently serves as non-executive and independent director of Dentegra Seguros Dentales, Pensiones Principal, Sofia Salud; and GNP International Ltd.
Yves attended the programme on the United States Legal System at Georgetown University and the Future Leaders Programme of the French government at the ESSEC business school in Paris. He qualified as an attorney at the Universidad Panamericana.
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