We are pleased to announce that Fernando Carreño, head of our antitrust practice was awarded “Lawyer of the year – under 40” by Global Competition Review (GCR). This is the first time that a Mexican lawyer is recognized with this award.

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Today, March 8th, 2018, the “Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific partnership”, better known as TPP-11 or CPTPP, was signed in Chile, with the participation of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and Mexico. The agreement is signed just as the government of the United States is announcing that it will impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.

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On March 1st, 2018, the Chamber of Deputies approved a Decree (“Decree”) issuing the Financial Technology Institutions Act and amending and repealing various provisions of the Credit Institutions Act, the Securities Market Act and other related regulations ("Act" or "FinTech Act").. In accordance with said Decree, the FinTech Act has been sent to the Federal Executive for its promulgation and publication in the Federal Official Gazette.

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On February 8th, 2018, the Federal Electricity Commission published the terms of bid number CFE-0036- CASOA-0001- 2018 for the design, construction, equipping, installation, operation and maintenance of the first direct current transmission line in Mexico.

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On February 10th, 2014, section A of article 102 of the Mexican Constitution was amended in order to transform the Procuraduría General de la República (Attorney General's Office) into an independent public entity called Fiscalía General de la República ("FGR"). Unfortunately, after almost 4 years, it hasn't yet come into force.

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On February 2^nd   the international public bid number LT/SENER-01-2018 (the “Bid”) issued by the Ministry of Energy (“SENER”) was published in the Official Federal Gazette. The Bid aims to award a Contract for Management and Operation (the “Contract”) of the Transmission Infrastructure to Interconnect the Baja California Interconnection System (BC) with the National Interconnection System (SIN).

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On February 10, 2014, section A of article 102 of the Mexican Constitution was amended in order to transform the Procuraduría General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) into an independent public organization called Fiscalía General de la República (“FGR”).  Unfortunately, almost four years later, it hasn’t yet come into force. 

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Today the Manual for the interconnection of Power Plants and the Connection of Load Centers (the “Manual”) issued by the Ministry of Energy (“SENER”), was published in the Official Federal Gazette. It provides the requirements, describes the process and procedures, and defines the obligations and rights to be observed regarding the requests for interconnection of power plants or the connection of consumer load centers to the National Transmission Grid and General Distribution Grids that are filed with the National Center of Energy Control (the “CENACE”).

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We are pleased to announce that Fernando Carreño, head of our antitrust practice has been nominated as “Lawyer of the year – under 40” by Global Competition Review (GCR), being the only Mexican lawyer that has been nominated to receive this award since it was launched. Fernando share this recognition with the following lawyers: Margaret Segall D’Amico (Cravath Swaine & Moore), Creighton Macy (Baker McKenzie), Thomas Elkins (Linklaters), Jesse Solomon (Davis Polk), Yizhe Zhang (Jones Day), Meegan Hollywood (Robins Kaplan) and Elaine Ewing (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton).

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On January 25^th, 2018 the National Hydrocarbons Commission (the “CNH”) published the call and rules of the second tender for onshore oil fields for Round 3. This bidding process is intended to award license contracts for the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons in 37 contractual areas or blocks within onshore fields located in the Burgos, Tampico-Misantla, Veracruz and Southeastern Basins.

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