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Competition/Antitrust

Mexico

9 Years Ranked

About

Provided by José Ángel Santiago Ábrego

Latin America

Practice Areas

Competition / Antitrust

Public Law

Career

He obtained his law degree at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he graduated with special honors.

A partner at SAI Derecho & Economía since February 2018, he represents companies and individuals in constitutional litigation (amparo) regarding administrative, regulatory (telecommunications, broadcasting, hydrocarbons, electricity, finance, ports, among others) and competition affairs. He has great experience and expertise in litigation before the specialized courts of the Federal Judicial Branch. He also represents clients before the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), in investigations regarding anticompetitive practices and illicit concentrations.

He has been guest professor at higher education institutions, such as the National Institute of Criminal Science and the Universidad Panamericana, where he has taught workshops on legal argumentation for civil servants and modules on economic competition, both in specialized seminars and the economic law master’s program. Currently, he is tenured professor of the Constitutional Procedures lecture at the ITAM. He is co-author of two books regarding antitrust and telecommunications law.

At this moment, he is the First Vice-president of the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE) and the President Elect for the 2025-2026 biennium. Among others, his duties at the bar association include the general internal coordination of the bar activities nationwide (including defense of the rule of law), the organization of academic events to debate current issues of all nature, as well as lecturing in multiple forums and formulating opinions regarding resolutions, judgments and regulation projects. Likewise, he currently is a board member of the General Council of the Mexican Legal Profession (CGAM), entity created by the three major Mexican bars to represent the best interests of the legal profession in Mexico.

Work Highlights

Within his practice, some of his most relevant cases in which he has participated include:

- Spearheading the enforcement of an amparo trial to quash a COFECE investigation into the egg market that overstepped its bounds by infringing upon information protected by attorney-client privilege. This not only ensured the upholding of the newfound privilege in practical scenarios but also led to the closure of the procedure.

- Several amparo trials filed against regulation issued by the National Energy Control Center (CENACE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), allowing power plants owned by Sempra Energy (formerly, IEnova) to operate and add new partners to their permits.

- An amparo trial filed against a fine issued by COFECE following an investigation for collusion in the chicken market, by means of which COFECE was ordered to revoke the fine.

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