Elian Avila

Counsel since 2025

In antitrust, Elian has actively participated in some of the Firm's most significant transactions, representing domestic and international clients in all stages of proceedings before the IFT and COFECE, now the National Antitrust Commission. She has extensive experience in merger proceedings, investigations into monopolistic practices, and immunity programs. She is highly specialized in litigation matters involving challenges to sanctions related to alleged anti-competitive practices and prohibited mergers, consistently obtaining favorable results for his clients before the specialized courts in this area.

In data protection, she has a solid and specialized track record, regularly advising national and international organizations, as well as foreign law firms, on a wide range of issues including regulatory compliance, design and implementation of privacy notices, internal policies and procedures, handling of ARCO rights requests, incident and security breach management, national and international data transfers, and the comprehensive and day-to-day handling of personal data, including sensitive data and employee data. She also has significant experience in proceedings before the relevant regulator and in challenging sanctions in this area before specialized courts.

In addition, she has represented various clients of the Firm in amparo proceedings, mainly in constitutional and administrative matters, as well as in federal and local contentious-administrative proceedings. Her practice includes handling matters before administrative, data protection, financial, energy, tax, environmental, consumer protection, and aeronautical authorities.

+52 (55) 5201 7575
eavila@macf.com.mx
Languages
  • Spanish.
  • English.

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Education
  • Data Protection Diplomat, Escuela Libre de Derecho, 2021.
  • Certificate in Data Privacy, Universidad Panamericana, 2018.
  • Legal English course, Georgetown University, 2013.
  • Law Degree, Escuela Libre de Derecho, 2010.
Experience
  • Lawyer, Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, 2012-2024
  • Law clerk, Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, 2006-2012
  • Law clerk, Hogan Lovells, 2005- 2006
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May 27, 2026
In Mexico, the shift toward preventive models already has legal backing in the current Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (“LFPPI” or the “Law”) and in recent amendments published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on April 3, 2026, which strengthen the role of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property ("IMPI") as an enforcement authority and promoter of best practices.
May 22, 2026
On April 28, 2026, the new Regulations of the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property were published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, which will enter into force on July 22, 2026, and will repeal the Regulations of the Industrial Property Law of 1994.
May 20, 2026
Following the announcement by the Ministry of Energy (“SENER” per its acronym in Spanish) on May 11, 2026 regarding three mechanisms to facilitate investment in the energy sector, on May 15, 2026, the “Request for Proposals for Strategic Electric Power Generation and Storage Projects, in line with binding planning” (the “RfP”) was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.