Team

The firm brings together leading specialists in each of its practice areas.

Leticia “Lety” Elizondo

Managing Partner

A lawyer with more than ten years of practice in mergers and acquisitions, financial law, corporate law and cross-border transactions.

She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Business Law from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

Her professional background includes serving as in-house counsel at Fibra Educa and as an associate at Galicia Abogados, S.C. She began her practice as a legal intern at Notary Public No. 105, with Lic. Conrado Zuckermann.

As managing partner of the firm in Mexico City, her practice focuses on sports law, financial law and mergers and acquisitions.

Former President of the NU-Kellogg Club of Mexico and Executive in Residence at the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Fernando José Cabrera García

Founder

Founder of the firm, which is now led by its Managing Partner, Leticia Elizondo. A lawyer with more than thirty years of experience in telecommunications, sports law, sports and entertainment sponsorship, institutional administration in sport and entertainment, government contracts and international negotiations.

He holds a law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana, a Master of Laws from Georgetown University Law Center and a Master's in International Sports Business Management from Johan Cruyff University.

He has served as Assistant General Counsel of AT&T Mexico, General Counsel of Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. and Legal Director for Sports, News and Entertainment at TV Azteca. Earlier in his career he was a partner at Baker & McKenzie.

He has served as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a legal specialist across disciplines including football, tennis, cycling, basketball, boxing and Olympic sports.

In academia he has taught Sports Arbitration and Sponsorship Agreements, and Laws and Regulation of Football. He collaborated with Lic. Javier F. Becerra at Basham, Ringe y Correa on the most widely recognised English-Spanish legal dictionary in Mexican legal scholarship, published by the Escuela Libre de Derecho, and has contributed on sporting matters to the digital edition of Forbes México.

Ivan Ruiz Moreno

Of Counsel

Law degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Duke University and a diploma in telecommunications from ITAM.

He has completed seminars on contractual and regulatory matters for the oil and gas sector with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and on electricity with Electricity Utility Consultants, Inc.

He brings more than twenty years of experience across regulated industries and general corporate and commercial law. He has served as a public official at the former COFETEL, as legal director for telecommunications concession and permit holders, as a member of COFETEL's Advisory Board, and as parliamentary adviser and legal counsel to domestic and foreign companies in telecommunications, broadcasting, corporate and contract law, competition, regulation, spectrum auctions, administrative law and the electricity sector.

He is an independent director of a subsidiary of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad and a board member of the Instituto del Derecho de las Telecomunicaciones, A.C. (IDET), the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN). He has written widely and taken part in conferences, forums and television and radio interviews on the telecommunications industry.

His practice has been recognised by specialist telecommunications directories including Chambers & Partners and the newspaper Reforma. Languages: Spanish (native), English (native level), intermediate Mandarin and French.

Associates

Piero Contreras
Itzel Graciela
Guillermo Rubio
Salvador Palafox
Paulina González