Region: Mexico

Mexico’s antitrust watchdog has filed a complaint to the Supreme Court opposing a government reform bill that aims to strengthen the state-owned electricity utility, claiming the proposed law would be bad for competition.

26 April 2021

Mexico's competition enforcer has accused 56 liquefied petroleum gas suppliers and 34 individuals of sharing markets and colluding on prices, in what it says is its largest-ever investigation.

18 March 2021

Mexico’s antitrust watchdog is calling on the country’s lawmakers to shoot down a bill aimed at strengthening the state-owned electricity utility, claiming the proposed law would grant the company unjustified competitive advantages.

17 February 2021

Local lawyers are mourning the loss of Gustavo Rodrigo Pérez Valdespín, a commissioner at Mexico’s antitrust watchdog, who passed away on 4 February after contracting coronavirus.

10 February 2021

Featured in The Settlements Guide - First Edition

Only the Federal Congress can regulate competition and pass legislation in connection therewith. Under such powers, in 1992 Congress passed the first competition act, which was repealed and replaced in 2014 by the current Federal Competition Act (FCA). The FCA constitutes the substantive body of competition law in Mexico.

02 February 2021

Mexico’s antitrust watchdog has reverted to the country’s previous maximum cartel fine cap in sanctioning seven global banks and 11 traders for conspiring to fix bond prices.

26 January 2021

Peruvian boutique firm Bullard Falla Ezcurra + has made Lucía Villarán a partner in Lima, while Mexican firm Gonzalez Calvillo has promoted former enforcer Gabriel Gonzalez Aragon to counsel.

08 January 2021

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With a consistently active antitrust authority, Mexico’s competition bar sees no shortage of merger work.

11 December 2020

Former Creel Abogados partner Patricio Martínez has joined the antitrust practice at Gonzalez Calvillo in Mexico City.

07 December 2020

Mexico’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Walmart’s local subsidiary for possible anticompetitive conduct in the country’s wholesale goods and retail market, less than a month after the agency published a study on competition in the sector.

25 November 2020