Professional Memberships
•International Bar Association (IBA) - Member of the Economic Competition Committee
•National Association of Business Lawyers in Jalisco (ANADE Jalisco) - Member of the Board of Directors
•Meritas Law Firms Worldwide - Member of the Member Engagement Committee
•Magazine Best Corporate Practices - Member of the Editorial Board
Publications
•Co-author of the second edition of the "Doing Business in Latin America Guide", published by Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2017.
http://docs.meritas.org/Public_Resources/DBI_LatinAmerica/Mexico.pdf
•“Non-compete clauses, published by the Best Corporate Practices Magazine, 2017.
•Co-author of the first edition of the book "Foreign Direct Investment", chapter Mexico, published by The Global Legal Post, 2016.
•“The Importance of Compliance”, published by the Best Corporate Practices Magazine, 2013.
•“The ACC Value Challenge, a project to increase value by outside counsel services to their clients”, published by Abogado Corporativo, 2011.
Education
Universidad Panamericana
Law Degree, Postgraduate in Commercial Companies
2001
King’s College London
Postgraduate Studies in Economics for Competition Law
2020
National Association of Business Lawyers (ANADE)
Corporate and Business Law, Real Estate Law, Business Valuation, Mediation and Negotiation, Compliance Seminars
2015
Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM
Economic Competition Course under recent legislation, Communication and Crisis Management
2021
Mexico International Chamber of Commerce and Universidad Panamericana
International Commercial Arbitration
2015
Experience
Azucena Marín is partner in Cuesta Campos, leading the Corporate M&A and Antitrust Compliance teams of the Firm, working on antitrust matters as part of a broader M&A practice, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, competition law, financial transactions and corporate governance.
For over 22 years, Ms. Marin has advised an array of clients in Mexico, US, Japan and Europe in cross-border transactions, corporate structures, strategic acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial agreements, asset-based lending, among other multimillion-dollar transactions. Furthermore, she gives advice on due diligence and compliance issues including topics such as anticorruption, antitrust and competition law, privacy, money laundering and corporate governance. She is especially active in the automotive, manufacturing, financial, pharmaceutical, real estate development and alcoholic beverages industries.
Azucena is a frequent guest speaker at classes and conferences organized by the Universidad Panamericana, the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), the Mexican Institute of Best Corporate Practices (IMMPC), Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, the Mexican Bar Association, the ANADE Jalisco and the Mexican Association of Real Estate Developers, with topics such as issues of due diligence in the acquisition of companies, corporate governance, comparative law in matters of companies and international contracts and transactions, anti-corruption and money laundering regulations.
She is professor of Competition Law at the Law School of the Universidad Panamericana, and member of the Academy of Commercial and Business Law of the same university. She is also head of the Competition Law Committee of ANADE Jalisco and member of the Antitrust Committees of the IBA (International Bar Association) and ABA (American Bar Association).
Additionally, Ms. Marin serves the board of directors of Laboratorios Sophia, leader in the ophthalmic products industry.
