Partner Alejandro Mendiola contributed to The Legal 500 Mexico Chapter: Merger Control. The aim of this guide is to provide its readers with a pragmatic overview of merger control laws and regulations across a variety of jurisdictions.

This country-specific Q&A provides an overview to merger control laws and regulations that may occur in Mexico. It will cover jurisdictional thresholds, the substantive test, process, remedies, penalties, appeals as well as the author’s view on planned future reforms of the merger control regime.

You can download the PDF here or read the article on The Legal 500 website.

We are pleased to announce that Partner Alejandro Mendiola Díaz, head of Nader, Hayaux & Goebel’s Antitrust practice, was appointed as Chairman of the Best Practices Committee of the Economic Competition Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce México (ICC México). We wish him the best of luck in this new endeavour.

Nader, Hayaux & Goebel is pleased to announce the incorporation of Alejandro Mendiola as Partner and Jorge Siegrist as Of Counsel.

Alejandro will lead the Antitrust Practice of the Firm, which has been involved in very large M&A transactions and investigations in sensitive industries. The expertise of Alejandro will raise this practice to a new level. Alejandro has more than 20 years of experience with merger control proceedings, investigations and complex antitrust matters. He was formerly a partner of an independent law firm in Mexico City and before then, he was an official of the Mexican Antitrust Commission.

Alejandro has worked for national and international clients in high profile cases and has developed antitrust compliance programs for multiple companies.

Jorge has more than thirty years of experience. He is a consummate M&A, securities and banking lawyer. He was previously the General Counsel of Grupo Modelo and Grupo BAL. Jorge will strengthen the offering of the Firm in corporate finance matters and he will have the responsibility of expanding the compliance and corporate governance practice of the Firm.

Michell Nader, Chairman of the Firm, indicated that the arrival of Alejandro and Jorge is part of the long-term strategy of the Firm with internal and external growth. The arrival of Alejandro and Jorge responds to our clients’ needs for a broader scope of services.