About
Sara Hardy Pérez is an Associate at Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. with over 11 years' experience in commercial arbitration, anti-corruption, compliance and corporate criminal liability; she joined the firm in 2022 and serves as Coordinator for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of the Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje -40 (CEIA-40). She leads complex internal and FCPA-related investigations and has been a tenured professor of Legal Dissertation in Contracts at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México since 2021.
Practice areas
International ArbitrationDispute ResolutionComplianceAnti-CorruptionInvestigationsESGRestructurings & InsolvencyWhite-Collar Crime
Office
Expertise
Commercial and International Arbitration (ICC, LCIA, AAA-ICDR, SIAC)Anti-Corruption and FCPA-Related InvestigationsRegulatory Compliance and AMLCorporate Criminal Liability and White-Collar DefenceESG and Sustainable CapitalismInternal Investigations
Education
- Sustainable Capitalism & ESG Diploma - University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, California, 2021
- Accusatory and Oral Criminal Procedure Diploma - Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales, Mexico City, 2020
- Criminal Tax Law Diploma - Barra Mexicana de Abogados, Mexico City, 2020
- Compliance and Criminal Liability Diploma - Tirant Formación, Mexico City, 2019
- Master in Governance and Human Rights (with honors) - Universidad Utónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2019
- Specialty, Human Rights and International Treaty Agencies - Escuela Diplomática de Madrid, Madrid, 2018
Admissions
- Certified External Auditor and Compliance Officer, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV)
Languages
SpanishEnglishFrench