Veronica Irastorza is a Senior Managing Director. She is an expert in economic analysis, competition, energy and valuations with more than two decades of experience assisting clients across the globe. Ms. Irastorza specializes in regulation and contracts, markets, damages, valuations, mergers and acquisitions, disputes and arbitration. In addition to her energy focus, she has worked on several competition matters related to the transportation, financial, real state and commodities sectors. She has provided oral and written testimonies in several legal disputes and arbitrations. In 2026, she was recognized as a Lexology Index (Who’s Who Legal) Highly Recommended Experts and received the Client Choice Award for Arbitration.
As a former undersecretary of energy planning and transition in Mexico, Ms. Irastorza leverages her unique insights to help clients navigate long-term energy project planning, renewable energy and energy efficient policies. She has advised companies, investors, regulators and governments in countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and the United States.
She also has worked as expert witness on several international arbitration cases in the energy sector. She has also been the expert on several antitrust cases, including electricity markets, gas, transportation and other goods/services. In recognition of her leadership in the field, she was appointed Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Energy and Transportation Committee in 2025. Her work has been published in Bloomberg, Competition Policy International, The Electricity Journal, and the Oil & Gas Journal, and presented at numerous conferences.
Ms. Irastorza held other governmental positions in Mexico — in addition to her time as undersecretary — and has served as a principal at The Brattle Group and an associate director at NERA Economic Consulting, where she worked for more than a decade. In 2012 she received the International Public Service Award from UC Berkeley. She is an independent director to the board of directors of Mapfre Internacional and Mapfre Mexico.
She co-founded Voz Experta, an association dedicated to visualizing women experts in the energy sector, which now has more than 200 members.