Diego González Altamirano Joins Ritch Mueller as a Partner of the Competition and Antitrust Practice

Ritch Mueller today announced that Diego González Altamirano has joined the firm as a partner of its Antitrust and Competition practice.

His practice covers the full regulatory cycle: from day-to-day counseling in regulated markets and complex merger control proceedings across industries, to the representation of complainants and defendants in cartel, abuse of dominance, and market investigations. He also develops and executes litigation strategies arising from antitrust and regulatory disputes. He works extensively in highly regulated markets — such as telecommunications, financial services, energy and digital markets — representing clients before the National Antitrust Commission (CNA), sector-specific regulators, and Mexico’s specialized courts.

His representative experience includes advising Mastercard in the competition authority’s market wide investigation into the debit and credit card payments system, as well as matters for Aeroméxico, AT&T, Google, DuPont, Grupo Televisa, Nubank, PayPal, Grupo Comercial Chedraui, Clip, Atlas Holdings and GICSA, among others. González Altamirano began his career in the chambers of Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío Díaz and has practiced at several highly regarded law firms and at Analysis Group in New York and Boston, where he developed a distinctive command of competition economics. He earned his law degree from Escuela Libre de Derecho, holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and is recognized in competition by Chambers and Partners.

“Competition has become decisive in the transactions and regulated markets our clients operate in,” said Luis Nicolau, Senior Partner of Ritch Mueller. “Diego is one of the most talented competition lawyers of his generation and a recognized leader in the field. His arrival reinforces our competition practice and allows us to serve our clients with even greater strength.”

“Joining Ritch Mueller is a natural fit and a tremendous opportunity to take on the most sophisticated competition work in Mexico,” said González Altamirano. “The firm’s transactional and regulatory platform, and the caliber of its clients, make it an ideal place to practice competition law at the highest level.”

Diego’s arrival allows Ritch Mueller to evolve its capabilities and address its clients’ most complex strategic challenges with even greater depth.