Mr Ricardo Chacon > ECIJA > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
ECIJA Offices
Torre Mural. Av. Insurgentes Sur 1605 piso 10
Col. San José Insurgentes, C.P. 03900,
Mexico City
Mexico
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Mr Ricardo Chacon
Position
Managing Partner at ECIJA Mexico
Career
Ricardo has more than 25 years of experience in the practice of corporate, commercial, M&A, project finance, antitrust and competition, public bids, energy, information technology and energy law. In his career, he has counseled a vast number of clients in several practice areas and transactions. He has structured complex corporate and project finance transactions in a broad range of industries such as the health and pharmaceutical, energy, automotive, entertainment, telecommunications, exhibitions, fashion, aviation, restaurant and hotel, among others. Ricardo Chacón has ample experience in government acquisitions and regularly advices companies during public bids.
He is author of the Mexican Telecommunications Chapter of the publication, “Telecommunications Law & Practice”, compiled by Colin Long (Sweet & Maxwell, London).
He has been a Negotiation and Project Finance professor at the Universidad Panamericana and he is also a Law Professor in the Master’s Degree in Corporate Law at the same university.
For many years he has been examiner in professional dissertations corresponding to the Master in Corporate Law (LL.M.) and Master in Economic Law (LL.M.), both at the Universidad Panamericana.
He is also a Law Professor at Universidad La Salle where he has lectured Antitrust & Competition, Corporate Law, Commercial Law and International Arbitration.
Languages
Ricardo speaks English and Spanish.
Memberships
Ricardo is an active member of the Mexican Bar Association (“BMA”), the National Lawyers College of Mexico (“INCAMEX”) and the International Association of Young Lawyers (“AIJA”), being distinguished in the latter as “Honorary Member” after his duties as member of the Executive Committee, National Representative for Mexico and as Vice-President of the Telecommunications & Energy Commission.
Education
Ricardo studied a Law Degree at the Universidad Panamericana, UP in Mexico, he has a Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Economic Law also in the Universidad Panamericana. He realized a Posgraduate Course in Telecommunications at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM. He coursed the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard School, in USA. He studied the International Business Transactions at “Escuela Libre de Derecho” in Mexico, the Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Texas at Austin in USA, the Master in Corporate Law (LL.M.) at Universidad Panamericana, having been elected Class President (2007).
Ricardo also studied the Master in Legal Sciences (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School, MS, USA. Actually, Ricardo is a PhD in Laws Candidate by the Universidad Panamericana.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > TMT
With the June 2023 hire of Miguel Ángel Margáin (from Pérez Correa González), ECIJA further strengthened its TMT offering in Mexico, a field in which it has been steadily growing and diversifying in recent years. The team focuses on clients from the media, sports and e-sports, IT, and telecoms sectors, with advice varying from corporate governance, commercial agreements and compliance, to IP, data protection and outsourcing. Margáin joins a team of five key partners that jointly oversee the industry group: corporate and commercial law expert Ricardo Chacón; Joaquín Rodríguez, who focuses on data protection and e-commerce; compliance specialist Berenice Sagaón; and Kaynicté Pérez who advises national and international companies on new technologies, internet law, e-commerce, sponsorship agreements and contract negotiations. Both Sagaón and Pérez were raised to the partnership in December 2022.
Mexico > Intellectual property
Leveraging its presence across Latin America and Iberia, ECIJA fields an IP team in Mexico that acts as an integral part of the firm’s coordinated registration and protection offering for the range of IP categories. The firm’s longstanding specialism in TMT matters gives it an extra edge in digital law issues and its IP client base has considerable overlap with the digital technology space. The hire of new practice head Miguel Ángel Margáin (from Pérez Correa González) in June 2023 has substatially strengthened the practice group. Martáin is supported by dedicated senior associate Georgina García – who ‘has an impressive ability to offer straightforward solutions’ and is experienced in portfolio management across a variety of businesses. Additionally, office managing partner Ricardo Chacón oversees the full range of IP work, while TMT-practice co-head Joaquín Rodríguez is also active in relation to IP matters.