Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.

The ‘creative’ competition and antitrust team at Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. ’has an exceptional degree of specialisation’ and is counsel of choice for a host of major multinationals operating in Mexico. It takes a considerable share of the merger control cases before COFECE and is also a regular in acting for major clients that are subject to sector investigations; recent mandates include matters in the jet fuel and liquid petroleum gas markets. Department head Carlos Mena is one of the go-to advisors in the market when it comes to competition law litigation and investigations, where he has experience on the other side of the table having been head of the investigative authority and general director of investigations of cartels. He and Jorge Kargl are praised by clients for their ‘experience in the sector, together with the attitude of service and commitment to the client’, and Kargl is especially noted in the TMT space. For one client, Luis Gerardo García ’makes the difference‘’ and he is the founder of the firm’s practice in this area. Another experienced antitrust and competition specialist is Mauricio Serralde, who acts on the full range of competition of matters; while Sara Gutiérrez is rapidly establishing a strong practice in administrative litigation and antitrust, and was promoted to the partnership in January 2023. Senior associate Edgar Martín Padilla has a practice focused on assisting national and international companies with pre-merger authorisations, cartel investigations and procedures before regulatory entities. Since publication, Padilla has moved to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Brussels office as a foreign associate.