Fernando Carreño

Partner of the Competition & Antitrust Practice and also has a highly significant role in the Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures Practices of Von Wobeser y Sierra.

He has 18 years of experience and has been involved in the most important M&A deals in Mexico offering advice on both the antitrust and the corporate aspects of such transactions. Fernando has played an active and important role representing clients in sophisticated and complex merger reviews as well as in investigations and litigations before the Federal Economic Competition Commission and the Mexican Courts. He has advised international Fortune 500 companies with a strong presence in both the United States and Latin America. Additionally, he has been involved in the majority of the cartel cases being conducted by the Mexican Antirust Commission. Furthermore, he has acted as one of the few experts called by the commission to review and draft the new regulatory provisions published as a consequence of the entrance in force of the new Antitrust Law. On the cartel investigations side, he has acted as counsel in various industries and he has been actively involved in the most notable premerger filing cases. In regards to corporate matters, he has also been a main figure in some of the largest M&A's and divestitures taking place in Mexico.

• Competition & Antitrust
• Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
• ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)
• Real Estate

• Automotive & Manufacturing
• Consumer Goods
• Energy 
• Real estate

• Vice-President of the Antitrust Committee, International Chamber of Commerce, since 2018.

• Chairman of the Competition and Antitrust Section, Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados), since 2019.

• Non-governmental agent of the International Competition Network, since 2014.

• Officer of the Antitrust Committee, International Bar Association, since 2019.

• Member of the Mexican Bar Association.

• Master of Laws (LL.M.), Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago.

• Law Degree (J.D.), cum laude, Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City.