Biography: Competition

León Ricardo Elizondo is an attorney and counsellor at law, admitted in Mexico in 1990 from the Universidad Tecnológica de México. He obtained his LLM 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 Texan law firm Crady, Jewett & McCulley LLP, until December 1991.

He has been professor of antitrust law at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Anahuac and ITAM law schools. He is a member of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados – BMCA), the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa (ANADE), American Bar Association (ABA) and International Bar Association (IBA).

Mr Elizondo authored chapter nine entitled 'Mexico's Federal Law of Economic Competition' of the book Competition Regulation at the Pacific Rim (Oceanic Publication, Inc.), and 'Antitrust Law in the Energy Industry' in a joint publication of the Mexican Ministry of Energy and the Legal Research Institute of UNAM. Since 2006, he has written the Mexican chapter in Practical Law Company's Cross Border Handbooks, and Pharmaceutical Antitrust, 2009. He has been an active speaker in seminars and conferences on economic competition in Mexico and in the US. Mr Elizondo specialises in antitrust, administrative and commercial litigation, and international business transactions. He is fluent in both Spanish and English.