Iker Arriola Peñalosa

Practice Areas

M&A and Corporate Law.

Career

Iker represents and advises clients on a variety of issues and operations. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and antitrust.

Since September 2022, Iker acts as resident partner of the Firm’s European office in Madrid.

With 25 years of experience advising some of the largest and most recognized international companies, as well as important Mexican companies, Iker always takes a leading position in the business and strategic projects of his clients. Iker represents clients in a broad range of legal matters, predominantly including mergers and acquisitions (public and private). Iker also has an important track record representing clients in financing transactions and capital markets, including debt offerings and initial public offerings of shares.

Iker also has extensive experience in antitrust matters, including antitrust investigations and merger proceedings. Iker has represented clients in antitrust cases in a distinguished variety of M&A and competition investigations across a wide range of industries and sectors, including pharmaceuticals, construction, consumer products, food and beverage, transportation, energy, banking and telecommunications.

Iker has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Mexico for several years, and in various subjects, in the most prestigious international magazines. In 2012 he was named by Expansión magazine as one of the “30 Promises in their 30s”. In 2024, Iker was listed as one of the most outstanding professionals in Latin America in the first edition of The Legal 500’s M&A Powerlist Latam. In 2023 and 2024 was also recognized as a Stand-out Lawyer by the prestigious publication Thomson Reuters.

Professional Memberships

International Bar Association.

Personal

Iker obtained his law degree (JD) from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and his Master of Law (LLM) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in Madrid Spain.