León R. Elizondo, is an attorney and counselor-at-law, admitted in México in 1990 from the Universidad Tecnologica de México. He obtained his LLM degree in 1993 from the University of Houston Law Center, and his MBA from the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresas (IPADE) in 1999. He was general counsel of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission, from 1996 to 2001. Mr. Elizondo was part of the work group formed under NAFTA article 1501 and advised México on the Bilateral Antitrust Agreement with the USA. He was also an in-house counsel with the Pemex Houston Legal Department from 1992 to 1994, and a visiting attorney at the Houston, Texas law firm Crady, Jewett & McCulley, LLP until December 1991.

Mr. Elizondo has been professor of antitrust law at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Anahuac and ITAM law schools. Mr. Elizondo authored Chapter 9 of the book Competition Regulation at the Pacific Rim (Oceanic Publication, Inc), entitled “México’s Federal Law of Economic Competition”, and Antitrust Law in the Energy Industry in a joint publication of the Mexican Ministry of Energy and the Legal Research Institute of UNAM. He has published since 2006, the México chapter in the Practical Law Company, Cross Border Handbooks. He has been an active speaker in seminars and conferences on economic competition in México and in the USA. He is member of the Mexican Bar Association (BMCA), American Bar Association (ABA) and National Association of Corporate Lawyer (ANADE). He has advised different organizations in the pharmaceutical industry such as Mexican Association of Pharmaceutical Investigation Industry (“AMIIF”); the National Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (“CANIFARMA”); Latin American Working Group (“LAWG”), among others.

Mr. Elizondo specializes in antitrust, administrative and commercial litigation, and international business transactions; he speaks Spanish and English.