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1. Have there been any recent developments regarding the Mexican merger control regime and are any updates/developments expected in the coming year? Are there any other ‘hot’ merger control issues in Mexico?
There have been significant recent changes to the Mexican merger control regime, comprising amendments to the applicable legislation and the establishment of a new competition authority. The governing statute is the Federal Economic Competition Law 2015 (Ley Federal de Competencia Económica, Competition Law 2015), as revised by a reform published in the Official Gazette on 16 July 2025, which came into force on 17 July 2025 (Publicación DOF 16 de julio de 2025 Edición Vespertina, Amendment 2025). Under the Amendment 2025, the National Antitrust Commission (Comisión Nacional Antimonopolio, CNA) is created as the new
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