Mexico City was the location of the first foreign store of US retail giant Walmart. Since 1991, the multibillion hypermarkets chain operator has added over 2,300 further retail units in the country. Having been with the company since March 2014, Raymundo Carrillo de Albornoz first impressed the company’s internal management as director of litigation, seamlessly handling litigation affairs as well as antitrust matters for Walmex and its subsidiaries (Superama, Bodega Aurrera and Sam’s Club).

As a result of these successful efforts, Carrillo was promoted to the position of corporate legal director in July 2017. In his current role he continues to lead on litigation and antitrust matters but also has responsibility for the contracts, corporate and labour departments. Prior to Walmex, Carrillo was at Grupo Modelo between 2006 and 2014. Moving up the ranks quickly, he held various positions including legal director for litigation, head of compliance and oversaw the implementation of the governance, risk and compliance programme in all the Grupo Modelo companies. With over 20 years of professional experience, he is well known in Mexico’s legal circles as one of the country’s finest in-house litigants.