Luisa Conesa Labastida

Founding Partner

Mexico City, 1983.

Miss Conesa holds a law degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she received an award for academic excellence during her studies, prior to graduating suma cum laude. A Fulbright scholar, she earned her masters’ degree (LLM) at Columbia University, where she was named Constitutional Law Fellow. 

She started her career clerking in the Supreme Court of Justice, and the Federal Judiciary. In 2011, she entered private practice, where she has advised both local and global clients in constitutional and administrative litigation, specializing in strategic and high-profile cases.

In the academic arena, she carried out a research stay at the Spanish Constitutional Court, and later became a professor at ITAM (Public Law), at CIDE (Constitutional Law) and Universidad Panamericana (Constitutional Procedure). She currently holds the chair for professor of Legal Reasoning in the Constitutional Law Master’s Degree at Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD).

Miss Conesa’s native language is Spanish, and she is fluent in English.

Rodrigo Moreno Gómez

Founding partner

Mexico City, 1979.

Mr. Moreno received his law degree from ITAM. He has over twenty years of professional experience, specializing as a litigation attorney in constitutional, fiscal, and administrative matters.

He has participated in cases related to the interpretation and compliance with different tax provisions, constitutional defense, and contentious-administrative litigation, including various cases with a high social, political, and economic profile. 

Since 1999, he has had the privilege of collaborating with some of the most prestigious law firms in Mexico, including García Alcocer Abogados, SC and Zínser, Esponda y Gómez Mont, S.C.

He has completed various graduate courses and participated in seminars, mainly related to fiscal, regulatory, and constitutional matters. In 2015, he studied to become a Tax Law Specialist at Escuela Libre de Derecho.

Mr. Moreno’s native language is Spanish and he is fluent in English.

Diego Gonzalez Altamirano

Antitrust Partner

Mexico City, 1987.

For almost 10 years, Diego has focused his practice on antitrust proceedings substantiated before the Mexican antitrust authorities (Cofece and IFT), both merger control and cartel and single-firm conduct investigations. In addition, his focus extends to litigation before the specialized antitrust, broadcasting and telecommunications courts.

His former legal and economic experience includes having clerked for Justice José Ramón Cossío Díaz; and as an antitrust associate at leading economic consulting firm De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C. He later joined the antitrust practice at Analysis Group, Inc., a world leading economic consulting firm headquartered in Boston, US., both in the Boston and New York offices. Before joining CyMA, Diego was a senior associate in the antitrust and telecommunications practices at Mexican leading law firm, González Calvillo SC.

Diego is an adjunct professor of competition at ELD, and has been ranked as a “Rising Star” in the Competition and Antitrust field in Mexico by The Legal500 every year since 2020.

Diego’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Associates

Erick C. Pensado García

Senior Associate

Mr. Pensado received a law degree from Universidad La Salle and a Ms in Tax Law from UP. He has over 15 years of professional experience in the areas of litigation, consulting and tax planning, which provide him with the expertise to intervene in the prevention and resolution of tax disputes before fiscal and judicial authorities. 

In 2008, he joined the tax department of Deloitte, and became the head of the Tax Controversy division globally.

In 2017, he joined the tax department of Moreno Gómez Abogados, SC, and he joined CyMA as the head of the same area in 2021. 

He received a Diploma Degree in Taxes and Tax Regulations from Universidad Panamericana in 2010 and became a Specialist in Business Strategy and Finance from UP and got certified in International Taxation in Westlake, Texas.

He was accepted as a member of the Mexican Bar Association in 2009.

He is a professor in the Tax Diploma Degree of Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Santa fe Campus), and the Law Degree of the same institution (CDMX Campus).

He has authored various articles and publications on tax matters.

Mr. Pensado’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Ricardo Juanes Laviada

Senior Associate

Ricardo has a Law Degree from Universidad Marista de Mérida where he graduated with a special mention for academic excellence and obtained various national and international awards in International Law and Human Rights competitions. He holds a Master´s Degree (LL.M.) from New York University (NYU), receiving the Dean’s Graduate Award. There he focused his studies in public and constitutional law from a comparative perspective. 

Currently, he focuses his practice in constitutional, administrative, and regulatory advisory and litigation, where he has represented several national and international companies in the sectors of energy, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications. He also has also advised regulatory agencies and legislatures in drafting laws and regulations.

Before joining CYMA he worked as an associate at Ritch, Mueller, Heather and Nicolau specializing in the areas of project finance, energy, and infrastructure. During his time as a corporate lawyer, he helped his clients to understand the complex regulations of the energy sector, while enabling them to negotiate diverse financial and infrastructure agreements.

Ricardo is authorized to practice under Mexican Law and recently passed the New York Bar exam. His native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Daniel Eduardo Torres Checa

Senior Associate

Mr. Torres Checa received a cum laude law degree from Universidad Panamericana. He is a constitutional law master’s candidate at Escuela Libre de Derecho.

For over four years, he has specialized in administrative and constitutional litigation matters and in the protection and defense of private individuals, both in law firms and in civil associations. 

He has published articles and opinions in different media outlets, including the Judicial Blog of Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Nexos Magazine and Animal Politico. 

Daniel’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Alonso Castellanos Armella

Senior Associate

Alonso holds a law degree from the Universidad Panamericana, a master’s degree in Government and Public Policy from the same institution, and studies in Privacy, Regulation and Data Governance from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).

With nearly 10 years of experience in constitutional and administrative litigation, his practice includes disputes in telecommunications, antitrust, industrial property, public procurement, transparency, data privacy, and access to public information, as well as strategic litigation.

Alonso also has consulting experience in industrial property, data privacy, access to public information, and anti-corruption areas.

Prior to joining Conesa y Moreno Abogados, Alonso was part of prestigious firms White & Case and Arochi & Lindner.

Alonso’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Andrés Alcántara Silva

Senior Associate

Andres holds a law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (IBERO) Ciudad de México and is currently studying a master’s degree in constitutional law from Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD), as well as a master´s degree in public administration from Universidad Anáhuac. He has an amparo diploma from Mexico’s Supreme Court.

He has wide experience on amparo, administrative and constitutional litigation and specializes, among other subjects, in human rights, telecommunications, parliamentary law, democracy and transparency, and everything related with public policy and administration.

Besides private practice, Andres has experience in the Legislative Branch, having served as advisor in the Mexican Senate, as well as in the Executive Branch of his native state, where he occupied different public offices. He was also a finalist candidate for Commissioner of the Transparency Guarantor Entity of Oaxaca.

In parallel, he has collaborated as legal advisor with nonprofit organizations, such as Convivencia sin Violencia A.C., publishes opinion and academic articles about law and politics in several journals and magazines such as Nexos, Tiempo de Derechos, Siempre and Cuestione and has attended different TV forums such as Sin Filtro (Foro TV, Televisa), A debate (Meganoticias, Megacable) and Heraldo de la noche (Heraldo TV).

Andres has collaborated in the study, drafting and procedure of different constitutional trials before México’s Supreme Court of Justice, as well as in pro bono public and environmental lawsuits, such as those against the Tren Maya, and many others related to human rights litigation.

He is adjunct professor of Administrative Law II at Escuela Libre de Derecho and Amparo Trial at Universidad Iberoamericana. 

His native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.



Jorge Pablo Piña Hernández

Senior Associate

Jorge is a lawyer graduated from the Panamerican University (UP) and holds a specialization in Amparo Law from the same institution. With an extensive experience in administrative litigation, constitutional law, and amparo proceedings on behalf of individuals, his practice includes disputes in energy matters, antitrust law, industrial property, public procurement, protection of consumer rights, as well as the initiation of strategic litigation.

Jorge’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.



Manuel A. Pulido López

Junior Associate

Mr. Pulido received a law degree from Universidad Panamericana. His professional practice has mainly covered the areas of litigation and tax consulting.

In 2014, he joined Ortiz, Sainz y Erreguerena, SC, one of the most important tax law firms nationally. He received a Certificate of Merit from Pace University in New York for his participation in the “Clive M. Schmitthoff Essay Competition” where he got certified in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law by the same University.

The same year he was certified by the University of New York after completing the “Essentials of US International Tax for Mexican Lawyers” course.

Manuel’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Tania Manzur Hasbun

Junior Associate

Tania has a Law Degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (IBERO) Mexico City, where she graduated with a special mention for academic excellence.

Tania is focused on proceedings before the Mexican competition authorities, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), including investigations for the commission of absolute and relative monopolistic practices, among others. Also, she focuses on administrative law, commercial and constitutional litigation, including telecommunications, energy, data protection and antitrust sectors.

Throughout her professional experience, she has been involved in different pro-bono matters regarding anti-corruption, right to culture and right to health.

In 2020, she published the article Corruption in Mexico: A Threat to the Rule of Law in the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP). 

Her native language is Spanish, and she is fluent in English.

Martín Alberto Flores Estrada

Junior Associate

He holds a summa cum laude law degree the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) Campus Santa Fe, where he obtained both the highest mark in his graduating class and the CENEVAL National Award for outstanding performance.

Martín’s practice is mainly focused on litigation matters regarding antitrust, infrastructure, and energy law. Among his achievements, he succeeded in obtaining the first temporary injunction against a resolution of the Federal Antitrust Commission, which barred an individual from serving as manager for a company.

 

His passion for academia has led him to teach classes and coach various Moot Court teams at ITESM. He recently trained the first Mexican team to win the Intellectual Property Law Competition, organized by the International Trademark Association along with the Andean Court of Justice.

Before joining our firm, Martin worked for over three years in the constitutional and administrative litigation practice at Galicia Abogados, S.C.

Martín’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Maria Ugartechea

Junior Associate

María is a junior lawyer with experience in litigation, consulting and advisory in tax matters. 

She holds a master’s degree in Tax Advisory and Management from ESADE Business & Law School Campus Barcelona and received her law degree with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

She is currently a compliance officer certified by the National Banking and Securities Commission.

Her native language is Spanish, and she is fluent in English.

Camila Suárez Attie

Junior Associate

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in law from Universidad Panamericana and has participated in various administrative procedures and litigation in the fields of energy, urban development, telecommunications, and personal data, among others.

For three years, she worked in the administrative and constitutional litigation area at Galicia Abogados and served as Institutional Director of IWIRC Mexico (International Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation) during the biennium of 2020-2022. Additionally, she worked at Guerra González y Asociados in civil and commercial litigation.

She has had a focus on human rights issues, particularly those related to gender violence in Mexico and Latin America. She is member of Abogadas MX.

Currently, she serves as an assistant professor for the subjects of Political Theory and the seminar on Contemporary American Jurisprudence, both taught at Universidad Panamericana.

Ricardo A. Vidales Sesman

Lawyer

Ricardo graduated from ELD, with experience in environmental human rights litigation and research, as a part of his social service at “Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A.C.” (Mexican Center for Environmental Law, Non-Profit Organization) (CEMDA). He has experience clerking for notary public, as well as in environmental human rights defense and indigenous communities’ affairs.

His professional practice includes constitutional litigation, transparency and access to public information, health rights and strategic litigation.

Ricardo’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.

Juan Pablo Del Río Peduzzi

Lawyer

Attorney graduated from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), with experience in civil and commercial litigation. Currently, his practice focuses on consultancy and administrative and constitutional litigation.

Highlighting his involvement in the study and processing of amparo lawsuits and different constitutional disputes before México’s Supreme Court of Justice, Juan Pablo has collaborated on cases seeking to protect, among others, freedom of expression, the right to equality and non-discrimination, as well as the rights to competition and free competition in regulated sectors.

Juan Pablo’s native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.



Legal Interns

Karen Buentello Arriaga

Universidad Panamericana

Sofía del Hierro Haro

Universidad Panamericana

Juan Pablo del Río Peduzzi

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Itzel Amairani Vergara Valay

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

José Salvador Martínez Telléz

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México