Latin America
Practice Areas
Enrique's practice focuses in competition and antitrust, covering the whole spectrum: merger control (pre-merger notifications and opposition to illegal concentrations), competition administrative litigation (cartel conduct, abuse of dominance / vertical restraints and illegal concentrations), preventive measures and risk assessment, declarations of dominant position, barriers to competition and essential inputs, favourable opinions and judicial antitrust litigation (before federal courts and the Supreme Court). Also, he has vast expericience in telecommunications law.
Career
His practice in Valdes Abascal Abogados SC focuses mainly on merger control and in the defence of economic agents before the Federal Competition Commission and the Federal Courts, who are involved in cartel conducts, dominance abuse and illegal concentrations, as well as the promotion of complaints for said conducts. He has been practicing competition and antitrust for 13 years now. In this time, he successfully climbed the ladder from junior associate to senior partner within the firm. In 2023, he was included among the professors for the post graduate courses of competition and antitrust of the National Illustrious Mexican Bar.
Professional Memberships
Enrique de la Peña is member of the antitrust section of the American Bar Association and of the Merger Control Working Group of the International Competition Network.
Publications
He has coauthored the Mexico chapter in several editions of the following specialized publications: Cartel Conduct, Dominance and The Merger Control Review (Law Business Research Editorial).