Carlos Mena > Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. Offices
TORRE VIRREYES, PEDREGAL 24, 24TH FLOOR
COL. MOLINO DEL REY
MEXICO CITY, 11040
Mexico
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Carlos Mena
Work Department
Antitrust and Competition, Investigations and Compliance, Administrative Litigation and Claims
Position
Partner
Career
Mr. Mena advises and represents clients in antitrust/ competition and regulation matters. He has been involved in the most important antitrust cases in Mexico and Latin America in recent years including cartel, abuse of dominance and market investigations. He has obtained merger approvals in difficult transactions from authorities in Mexico and frequently leads antitrust compliance efforts for major companies.
After 10 years in various positions at the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE), he currently advises clients regarding all aspects of economic competition in Mexico. Mr. Mena also has experience in coordinating proceedings in different jurisdictions, especially in Latin America.
Mr. Mena worked for more than ten years at the Mexican competition authority, where apart from being the first head of the Investigative Authority, he was Director General for Cartel Investigations and Head of the Planning, Public Relations and International Affairs Unit. He also worked at the United States’ Federal Trade Commission. He also was the representative of Mexico in various international forums, including the OECD, and the International Competition Network.
At COFECE he developed the investigation procedures, including their Dawn Raid procedures, the leniency program, the forensic technology laboratory and the market intelligence unit. He led paradigmatic cases in sectors such as food, medicine, hospital services, transportation and financial services, among others. He was also responsible for negotiating the current Federal Economic Competition Law with congress.
Languages
Spanish and English
Memberships
Mr. Mena is a member of the International Cartel Task Force of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, a columnist for El Financiero and a Non-Governmental Advisor to COFECE.
Education
Mr. Mena obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from ITAM with honors in 2003. He also obtained a master’s degree in business law from the Madrid Bar Association in Spain, with notable mention in 2004, and another master’s Degree in Economic Regulation by the London School of Economics and Political Science of the United Kingdom with the prize for the best performance of his class in 2005.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Competition and antitrust
(Leading partners)A heavyweight of the Mexican competition law market, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. regularly acts as lead counsel to multinationals needing advice in this area, supporting clients in investigations by Cofece, as well as having a substantial share of the merger control filing market. The department’s slate of work covers the spectrum of matters, from pre-merger filings, compliance and administrative procedures, to investigations, amparo cases, jurisdictional conflicts and leniency applications. Antitrust and competition specialist Luis Gerardo García Santos Coy
founded the firm’s practice in this area and continues to be a key figure, co-leading the department with Carlos Mena, who excels in investigations and other contentious matters in the competition law space. Mauricio Serralde‘s individual practice ranges across the full breadth of the sector, while younger partner Jorge Kargl is praised by clients for his creative solutions and is the name to note for any work involving competion issues in the TMT sectors and matters before the IFT. Constitutional litigation specialist Sara Gutiérrez plays a notable role in contentious antitrust matters. The firm can draw on its deep associate pool to assist across the full range of competition work.
Mexico > TMT
As one of the country’s top corporate and M&A firms, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. excels in such advice to clients across the segments that constitute the TMT sector. Through its regular engagement by heavyweights in the area, the team has steadily developed its regulatory expertise, and can also draws on the know-how housed in the firm’s antitrust practice, particularly in the complex telecoms law segment. One particularly standout area for the broad practice is in the initial structuring of domestic operations for new entrants in the tech sector. The three lawyers to note at the head of the group are: Jorge Kargl, who is well versed in TMT competition law, as well as constitutional appeals; M&A partner Jean Michel Enríquez; and antitrust expert Luis Gerardo García Santos Coy. Carlos Mena is a further name to note for antitrust advice to TMT clients, and Sara Gutiérrez has carved a niche in matters that fall between the competing jurisdictions of Mexico’s antitrust authority (COFECE) and its TMT regulatory body (IFT).
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