Mexico’s Mijares Angoitia promotes two to partner
Mexican law firm Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes has announced the promotion of two new partners and one adviser, effective 1 April 2020.
Patrick Meshoulam (pictured, left) and Carlos Orci (pictured, right) have been appointed partners in the corporate and capital markets and economic competition and telecommunications practice areas, respectively.
Alejandro Díaz has been appointed adviser within the firm’s intellectual property area.
Patrick assists Mexican and foreign clients in a wide range of corporate transactions, including public and private offerings of equity, debt and structured securities, mergers and acquisitions, and financings. He has worked on multiple domestic and international offerings assisting issuers, investment banks and other financial institutions. In addition, he has been involved in several mergers and acquisitions banking and other corporate finance transactions in Mexico and the US.
Carlos focuses on corporate, competition and telecommunications law, including the representation of companies in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in merger control procedures, cartels, abuse of dominance, essential facilities, and barriers to entry investigations. He has advised companies in landmark competition matters in Mexico, counselling national and international clients in proceedings before the Federal Economic Competition Commission, the Federal Telecommunications Institute and the Federal Courts.
His experience spans a variety of industries, including the technology, media and telecommunications, banking and financial services, aviation, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, mining, maritime, railway, transport, consumer products, and automotive sectors, and he also has experience in media, technology, and telecommunications, advising companies on public bids, granting concessions, and administrative procedures before the Communications and Transport Ministry and the Federal Telecommunications Institute.
Carlos is also the chairman of MootComp, a non-profit organization focused on promoting competition law.