Career
Diego holds a bachelor's degree (JD) from Escuela Libre de Derecho, where he graduated with honors, earning distinction for his award-winning thesis, “Reorienting the Essential Facilities Doctrine Standard Toward Competition on the Merits.” He was awarded an honorary mention in his professional examination. As a recipient of the prestigious CONACYT-SENER-Hydrocarbons Sector Fund scholarship, Diego obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia University in New York, United States.
With over a decade of experience, Diego specializes in antitrust and competition law, representing clients in proceedings before Mexico’s competition regulators. His practice includes investigations into monopolistic practices, trial-like administrative proceedings, merger control filings, and other regulatory matters. He also focuses on constitutional litigation before Mexico’s specialized courts in competition, broadcasting, and telecommunications.
Currently, Diego is a partner at Conesa & Moreno, a boutique law firm specializing in Public Law, where he leads the competition law practice.
Diego began his professional career as a law clerk in the chambers of former Justice José Ramón Cossío Díaz of the Mexican Supreme Court. He later joined De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C., an economic consultancy, as a competition associate, and subsequently became part of the antitrust practice of Analysis Group, Inc., a leading global economic consulting firm, working in New York and Boston. Prior to joining Conesa & Moreno, he served as a senior associate in the antitrust practice at González Calvillo, S.C., a leading law firm in Mexico City.
In addition, Diego has served as an adjunct professor of competition law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho since 2019. He is a ranked lawyer by Chambers and The Legal 500.