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Alina de la Luz

Antitrust Lawyer

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LocationMexico CityMexico
Current role AssociateBaker & McKenzie Abogados, S.C. · since Sep 2025
Government service8yrsCOFECE

About

Alina de la Luz is an associate in the Firm's Antitrust Practice Group in Mexico. Prior to joining the Antitrust Practice Group at the Firm, she was part of the Mexican competition authority (Federal Economic Competition Commission), as part of the investigating authority.

With more than 8 years of experience in economic competition, mainly in abuse of dominance and analysis of competition conditions, she has conducted investigations in several markets: financial, energy, ports, digital, telecommunications, and transportation, among others.

Likewise, she was head of the economic competition subject at UNAM and has taught about competition in several forums.

Roles

Sep 2025–Present
Current role

Associate

Baker & McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

Mexico City, Mexico

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)White Collar CrimeGovernment ContractsAntitrust

Alina has extensive experience in handling antitrust proceedings before the Federal Antitrust Commission and the Federal Telecommunications Institute.

She also assists a wide range of clients from various industries in investigations of monopolistic practices conducted by the country's monopolistic authorities. She also regularly handles concentration notifications before the aforementioned authorities and advises clients in obtaining favorable opinions to participate in governmental bidding processes.

Sep 2019–Aug 2021
Former role

Chief coordinator of market structures

COFECE

(appointed)Mexico City, Mexico

Planning, Policy, Strategy

Strategic planning in the direction of the investigations in charge of the Area, with the objective of detecting anti-competitive effects in the financial, ports, railways, among other markets. As a result of the analysis, efficient solutions are proposed.

Apr 2018–Sep 2019
Former role

Director of market structures

COFECE

(appointed)Mexico City, Mexico

Planning, Policy, Strategy

Legal, procedural and administrative management of investigations by the Directorate:

Supervision and procedural direction of investigations that detect essential inputs and barriers to competition.

Strategic planning in the research guideline in order to detect anti-competitive effects in the analysed markets.

Exercise of practices that promote the professional growth of the team members.

Preparation of preliminary opinions that identify possible anti-competitive effects in the investigated markets.

Information analysis and cabinet research focused on the search of elements that allow investigations to be initiated by articles 94 and 96 of the LFCE.

Legal analysis of the corporate structures that are presented within the procedures.

Mar 2014–Apr 2018
Former role

Assistant Director of research markets

COFECE

(appointed)Mexico City, Mexico

Research

Analysis of anticompetitive practices in which different economic agents are involve, for example those in which their corporate structure facilitates the existence of anticompetitive practices, such as; unjustified exclusivities, cross subsidies in order to displace a service or product from the market by one of its competitors, among others.

Feb 2013–Dec 2013
Former role

Junior Lawyer

Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa

Mexico City, Mexico

Civil LitigationInternational Trade Law

Litigation in foreign trade procedures

Jan 2012–Jan 2013
Former role

Specialized Technician

COFECE

(appointed)Mexico City, Mexico

Mergers and Acquisition

Resolutions of matters resolved by the Commission, mainly mergers between companies.

Representative matters

Legal Matters

September 2025

Assists clients — particularly those active in the medical and construction industries — in ongoing antitrust investigation proceedings conducted by the Mexican antitrust authorities. Assists companies in the financial, energy, digital platforms, telecommunications, healthcare, transportation and other industries in antitrust compliance matters. Represents companies in the construction, automotive, electricity, data collection, telecommunications and other industries in merger notification proceedings, among others.

Recognition

Honors

Obtained recognition as a public official for her professional career

January 2019

Publications & speeches

Mexico: COFECE investigates possible cartel in the radiological equipment market

Baker McKenzie InsightPlus

March 2023

The Investigating Authority of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) published on 2 March 2023, the notice of initiation of an investigation for alleged horizontal monopolistic practices, also known as cartel practices, consisting in agreements between competitors to coordinate their bids in tenders by the Mexican Public Health sector to acquire radiological equipment and related products.

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Mexico: Creation of the new National Antitrust Commission

Baker McKenzie InsightPlus

July 2025

On 16 July 2025, the amendments to the Mexican Competition Law (MCL) and the Federal Law on Parastatal Entities ("New Amendments") were published in the Federal Government's Official Gazette, with substantive changes to the MCL. This reform follows the constitutional amendments published on 20 December 2024, which promoted organizational simplification by eliminating several autonomous agencies, including the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE). In its place, the National Antitrust Commission (NAC) was created as a decentralized public agency under the Ministry of Economy. COFECE will remain in office until the members of NAC's Board of Commissioners are appointed.

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