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Rocío Olea Salgado focuses her practice on business and competition law, including compliance and transactional issues in the technology, e-commerce, product manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and other industries. She is experienced advising on economic and competition issues, including the review and notification of mergers, concentrations, and investigations of alleged antitrust activities before Mexico’s Antitrust Agency (Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica).

Rocío represents foreign and Mexican entities on a broad range of corporate and business-related matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and compliance policies. She advises Mexican and international companies from different sectors on all stages of the business life cycle, including implementing startup and growth-stage processes, and handling administrative procedures before government agencies.

Concentrations

  • Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
  • Information technology
  • Cartel and vertical restraints and merger control processes
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Advice and compliance

Capabilities

Experience

  • Notified national and international mergers and concentrations before the Competition Commission.
  • Representation of foreign and Mexican companies on a variety of issues, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, data protection, commercial and administrative matters, government procurement, software and hardware protection, and venture structuring.
  • Representation of international companies with permanent establishment in Mexico in general corporate matters.
  • Representation of key technology and e-commerce companies in a variety of commercial issues in Mexico, including transactional and general corporate matters.

Recognition & Leadership

  • Listed, The Legal 500 Latin America Guide, “Latin America: Mexico,” 2021-2025
    • Corporate and M&A, 2022-2025
    • Competition and Antitrust, 2021, 2024-2025

Credentials

Education
  • Master of International Business Law, Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE), 2014
  • Law Degree, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios de Monterrey, México, 2011
Admissions
  • Mexico
Languages
  • Spanish, Native
  • English, Fluent
  • French, Conversational

Related Capabilities

Corporate Antitrust Litigation & Competition Regulation Latin America Practice Venture Capital & Emerging Technology