Javier Martínez del Campo has extensive experience in cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, strategic alliances, competition, and recapitalizations. Javier also has an active securities and finance practice with particular emphasis on advising Mexican borrowers in credit transactions, restructurings, and workouts. Among his significant recent matters, Javier advised Grupo Gigante, the fourth largest retailer in Mexico, in the divestiture of its supermarket business and in the recent termination of Grupo Gigante’s Mexican joint venture with Radio Shack Corporation. He also advised Grupo Kuo, a large Mexican conglomerate, in the refinancing of its syndicated debt and the issuance of debt in the international markets. Javier is a member of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados) and the American Bar Association (international associate).
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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 of (...)
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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 of 3 to (...)
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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 cable (...)
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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 (...)
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