Claudia Lelo de Larrea Mancera

Claudia Lelo de Larrea Mancera

Mexico, Mexico City
Director General for Competition Procedures at Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)- Mexico Federal Telecommunications Institute, Head of the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch at Creel Abogados, Counsel at RRH Consultores, Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Facultad de Derecho
Profession: Adviser / Consultant, Academic / Scholar, Lawyer
Industry: Competition, Law Practice, Academia

About:

Claudia Lelo de Larrea is Director General for Competition Procedures at the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute. Claudia has experience practicing competition and antitrust law, both from the public and private sector perspectives. Since 2017, she also teaches competition law at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

languages

English, Spanish

Expertise:

AntitrustMerger ControlCompetition PolicyE-CommerceCompliance ProgrammesTrademarks

Experience:

Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)- Mexico Federal Telecommunications Institute

Director General for Competition Procedures at Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)- Mexico Federal Telecommunications Institute

January 2023 - Present • Mexico, México

Director General in charge of the trial-like procedures that initiate after the Investigative Authority issues a statement of probable responsibility regarding the investigations of monopolistic practices and illegal mergers. Also in charge of the procedures that folloes the investigation to establish the existence of essential imputs, barriers to competiton and market conditions.

Deputy Director General at Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)- Mexico Federal Telecommunications Institute

2 years 4 mth • February 2015 - June 2017 • Mexico City, Mexico

Deputy Director General at the General Directorate for Monopolistic Practices and Illegal Mergers Investigations.

Creel Abogados

Head of the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch at Creel Abogados

10 mth • January 2022 - Present • Mexico City, Mexico

At Creel Abogados I provide legal advise on competition and antitrust matters. Merger clearance proceedings, representation of companies before the competition authorities on antitrust and abuse of dominance proceedings, amongst others.

Education:

Instituo de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM

PhD in Law research student. (2021-2024) The title of my dissertation is “Competition and Consumer Protection Policies in Mexico. For an effective cooperation within the Mexican regulatory framework that maximices the consumer welfare”. Dissertation Committee integrated by Dr. Maria Schmidt-Kessen, Prof. Max Huffman, Dr. Carlos Reyes.

Universitat de Barcelona

Master of Laws in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO)

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Bachelor of Laws

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