White & Case adds local partner in Mexico City
Law firm White & Case has added a local partner in Mexico City, a position offered in select regions the law firm operates in, where it is common market practice.
Arcelia Olea Leyva (pictured) has been recruited as a local partner in the firm’s Mexico City office.
Olea Leyva advises clients on matters including banking, securities and financial institutions, as well as fintech. Prior to joining the Firm as a partner, she was the vice president of regulatory affairs at the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV), the Mexican regulator in charge of supervising and regulating financial entities such as public companies, stock exchanges, banking institutions, credit unions and brokerage firms.
She was a member of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiations team in the financial services chapter, and which is the trilateral free trade agreement set to replace NAFTA.
The local partner position currently applies to offices in Asia-Pacific, Central & Eastern Europe, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The title of local partner is a recognised career step toward admission into Firm partnership, the law firm said.
