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Luis Mancera De Arrigunaga

Luis Mancera De Arrigunaga

Position

Partner at Pérez-Llorca México

Career

Luis is partner at Pérez Llorca and leads the Regulatory Group, including Constitutional and Administrative Litigation, AML, Anti-corruption and Compliance, Telecom and Foreign Trade and Customs.

He is specialized in public law, government negotiation, high level administrative litigation, compliance, AML, corporate governance, government procurement, tax issues and constitutional relief proceedings (amparo). Throughout his career, Luis has acquired in depth experience both in the public and private sectors, enabling him to have full and comprehensive knowledge of different industries, including telecom, finance, government, and tax regulation.

Luis has been involved in complex cases related to constitutional litigation and disputes, several of them creating groundbreaking precedents decided by Mexico’s Supreme Court. He actively advises on a wide range of matters related to new laws, regulatory proposals and government procurement processes and authorizations.

Prior to joining the firm, Luis held various high-level positions, including serving as General Counsel (Chief Tax Prosecutor) for the Ministry of Finance -where he worked in constitutional, administrative, tax litigation and tax fraud matters- as well as Chief of the Banking and Savings Unit at Mexico’s Ministry of Finance. In these capacities, Luis became Mexico’s representative before the Financial Action Task Force and supervised the Financial Intelligence Unit. Luis also acted as counsel to Mexico’s Federal Administration in matters of constitutional, governmental, administrative, tax, budgetary, financial, and public debt law and was member of the governing bodies of the National Banking Commission (CNBV), the National Insurance and Bonding Commission (CNSF), the Bank Savings Protection Institute (IPAB) and the National Retirement Savings Commission (CONSAR). His private sector experience includes working as Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Telecom Affairs at Grupo Televisa and Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer at Avantel, where he acquired in depth experience in the telecom sector.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Former member of the governing bodies of the National Banking and Securities Commission, National Insurance and Bonding Commission and the Bank Savings Protection Institute

He has been member of the board of directors of several telecom companies, including Innova (SKY México), Cablevisión and Cablemás

Education

He holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Law Degree (J.D. equivalent) with the highest honors (summa cum laude) from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City.

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