Manuel Romano is partner at Jones Day (Mexico city). He advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances in a broad range of industries, including the automotive, apparel, and financial sectors. He has experience representing clients in merger review proceedings before the Mexican Federal Competition Commission. He also advises developers, buyers, and financing parties in real estate development projects. Manuel has advised clients involved in public-private partnerships in the development and financing of a wide range of infrastructure and real estate projects including toll roads, hospitals, hotels, and universities. Manuel recently represented a multinational consortium led by a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management in an auction bid for the right to operate 558 kilometers of Mexican toll roads under a Public Private Service Agreement. Clients Manuel regularly advises include Acciona, Caixanova, RHJ International, and Volvo Bus Corporation. Manuel is a member of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados).
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Newly revised merger control guidelines ("Guidelines") from the Comisión Federal de Competencia ("COFECE"), Mexico’s competition law authority, clarify when parties to joint ventures or collaborations ("JVs") must report those transactions to COFECE. The Guidelines provide much needed guidance (...)
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A new Federal Economic Competition Law recently approved by the Mexican Congress is to become effective on July 7, 2014. The new law comes after an amendment to Article 28 of the Mexican federal constitution, which bans monopolies and monopolistic practices and seeks to strengthen competition (...)
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The Mexican Federal Competition Commission ("CFC") has revoked a fine of approximately US $1 billion that it had imposed on Mexican telecommunications company Radiomóvil Dipsa, S.A de C.V. (Telcel), a subsidiary of América Móvil, owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.The revocation resulted (...)
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The Mexican Congress has given new powers to the country’s antitrust authority, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (the "Commission"). The amendments to the Federal Economic Competition Law (the "Law"), which became effective on 11 May 2011, are designed to strengthen the regulation (...)
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On June 14, 2010, the Mexican Federal Competition Commission (also known as Cofeco or CFC) announced its decision to fine a group of companies and individuals in the trucking industry, whom Cofeco charged with agreeing to impose a standard fuel surcharge, in violation of Mexican antitrust law. (...)
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On January 21, 2010, the Federal Competition Commission of Mexico (Comisión Federal de Competencia, also known as “CFC” or “Cofeco”) issued a ruling confirming that Telcel has substantial power in the market for mobile telephony services in Mexico. Cofeco‘s decision was adopted by a majority (...)
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On December 1, it was announced that the Mexican Federal Competition Commission (“Cofeco”) had imposed a fine of pesos $ 47.5 million (approximately US $ 3.7 million) on Grupo Televisa, which is controlled by Mr. Emilio Azcárraga Jean, for refusing to provide certain television content to a (...)
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Brazil’s competition authority - Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (the Administrative Council for Economic Defense or “CADE”) - has ordered a divestiture after a two-year review of Coca-Cola‘s acquisition of a Brazilian bottled tea company. The acquisition of Leão Junior already was (...)
