Mr Octavio Olivo Villa > Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. Offices
Av. Pedregal 24, 10th floor
Molino del Rey
11040, Mexico City
Mexico
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Mr Octavio Olivo Villa
Work Department
Aviation, Banking and Finance, Competition and Antitrust, Energy and Infrastructure Projects, Mergers and Acquisitions.
Position
Partner
Career
Octavio Olivo joined the firm in 1992 and has been a partner since 1998. He has more than 25 years of experience representing Mexican airlines and other providers of air transportation services, in virtually all aspects of aviation finance including restructurings, insolvency and default situations. He has represented manufacturers, financiers and lessors in connection with the sale, financing and leasing of commercial and corporate aircraft and helicopters.
Octavio also has vast experience in energy projects representing clients in connection with the financing of power plants, pipelines, oil rigs, offshore support vessels and other items of equipment.
As to his competition and antitrust practice, his work focuses on merger control and competition law enforcement. He advises clients on the full spectrum of antitrust issues in Mexico, guiding them in diverse industries with a strong record of success in merger reviews.
He worked as a foreign associate at Clearly Gottlieb in New York.
Languages
Spanish, English.
Education
Master of Laws (LL.M) – London School of Economics and Political Science (1992)
Law Degree – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1991)
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Competition and antitrust
(Leading individuals)Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. was boosted by the return to its competition practice of senior associate Marta Loubet in January 2023, nine months after she had left to join White & Case S.C.. Her broad experience and sector focus on energy, transport, financial services, consumer goods and TMT, rejuvenate a practice that has steadily grown its merger control offering recently, particularly in the fintech sector which the Mexican authority has identified as a target for additional scrutiny. Transactional lawyers Octavio Olivo Villa and counsel James Ritch co-lead the department; moreover, in addition to Loubet’s return, the team has seen the arrival of further additions in associates Montserrat Quintana (who joined from an in-house position in June 2022), and Julia Fuentes (a November 2022 arrival from Pérez-Llorca in Spain).