Martin Basurto

Martín Basurto is a leading competition and antitrust specialist, recognized for leading complex and high-stakes merger control and competition and antitrust matters. He has led merger analyses across a wide range of sectors, including energy, real estate, transportation, healthcare, financial services, pharmaceuticals, data centers, e-commerce, and agriculture, among others. He also has experience in antitrust investigation proceedings.

Prior to joining the firm, Martín spent seven years at Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE, later renamed CNA), where he served as Deputy General Director of the Merger Control Unit and, earlier, as an investigator within COFECE's Investigative Authority. His vast experience includes analyzing more than 100 merger control cases.

Martín brings a unique multidisciplinary skillset that perfectly aligns to needs of all types of antitrust/competition cases: he is a lawyer, mathematician, statistician, and economist. He holds two master's degrees, one from the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT) and another from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), and he completed graduate studies toward a Master of Laws in Private Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho.