Career Biography

Raymundo Carrillo de Albornoz is a corporate lawyer with over 25 years of professional experience across multinational companies, law firms and the public sector.
Since August 2018, he has served as Director of Litigation at BBVA Mexico. In this role, he leads a department of 30 in-house lawyers and oversees more than 2,000 civil, commercial and administrative cases annually. His responsibilities include managing debt recovery proceedings before federal and local courts, directing the legal strategy for defending the Group’s entities before administrative authorities, and coordinating the Litigation Group of the Mexican Banking Association (ABM).
Prior to joining BBVA, he worked at Walmart de México y Centroamérica (2014–2018), where he concluded his tenure as Corporate Legal Director. During this period, he led the Litigation, Corporate and Contracts, Labour Relations, and Antitrust divisions. His work included coordinating more than 1,000 regulatory matters and 5,000 labour cases annually, handling damages claims with significant financial implications for the company, and participating in the development and implementation of its antitrust compliance programme.
From 2006 to 2014, he worked at Grupo Modelo (AB InBev). As Director of Litigation, he structured and coordinated the legal departments across the company’s distribution agencies nationwide, managing a team of more than 100 lawyers. During his tenure, he coordinated over 9,000 debt recovery cases. In 2013, he assumed the role of Head of Compliance, where he implemented compliance procedures relating to the FCPA and oversaw the implementation of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) programmes.
In the public sector, he served as Director of Judicial Matters at the Ministry of the Economy between 2004 and 2006. In this role, he was responsible for more than 8,000 juicios de amparo. He represented the Mexican Government before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and was part of the team involved in trade disputes before the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
His professional experience also includes working as an associate at law firms specialising in litigation, including Martínez, Algaba, Estrella, De Haro y Galván-Duque, Rubio Villegas y Asociados, and Alfaro y Marván Abogados.
Academically, he holds a Law Degree from Universidad Panamericana and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Minnesota. He has also completed executive and senior management programmes at institutions including The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and ITAM.