León Ricardo Elizondo Castro

León R. Elizondo, is an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law, admitted in Mexico in 1990 from the Universidad Tecnológica de México. He obtained his LL.M. degree in 1993 from the University of Houston Law Center and his MBA from the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE) in 1999. He was General Counsel of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission, from 1996 to 2001. Mr. Elizondo was part of the Work Group formed under NAFTA article 1501 and advised Mexico on the Bilateral Antitrust Agreement with the USA. He was also an in-house counsel with the Pemex Houston Legal Department from 1992 to 1994, and a visiting attorney at the Houston, Texas law firm Crady, Jewett & McCulley, L.L.P. until December 1991.

Mr. Elizondo has been professor of Antitrust Law at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Anahuac and ITAM law schools. He is member of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados [BMCA]), the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (Asociacion Nacional de Abogados de Empresa [ANADE]), American Bar Association (ABA), and International Bar Association (IBA).

Mr. Elizondo authored Chapter 9 of the book Competition Regulation at the Pacific Rim (Oceanic Publication, Inc.), entitled Mexico's Federal Law of Economic Competition, and Antitrust Law in the Energy Industry in a Joint Publication of the Mexican Ministry of Energy and the Legal Research Institute of UNAM. He has published since 2006, the Mexico’s chapter in the Practical Law Company, Cross Border Handbooks, Pharmaceutical Antitrust 2009. He has been an active speaker in seminars and conferences on economic competition in Mexico and in the U.S. Several publications such as Global Counsel, Global Competition Review, Who`sWhoLegal, and PLC Which Lawyer? have recognized him as one of the leading practitioners in competition.

Mr. Elizondo specializes in antitrust, administrative and commercial litigation, and international business transactions;

Lenguages: Spanish and English.

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