Gabriel González A.

Gabriel specializes in antitrust and has extensive experience advising a wide range of companies on this matters, as well as working from the antitrust prosecutor´s side. In his career he has advised multiple clients involved in merger notification procedures, cartel behaviour and abuse of dominance investigations, leniency applications, opinions for cross ownership and public bids, as well as trial-like procedures and amparo indirecto actions (constitutional injunctions). He has also developed antitrust compliance and risk prevention programs for several companies. Gabriel is a former director of investigations at the Mexican Federal Antitrust Commission, and has been recognized as a “rising star” and a “recommended lawyer” by the Legal 500 ranking.

Gabriel is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce. He has also been invited as a speaker at national and international forums by the International Chamber of Commerce (México), the National Corporate Lawyers Association (ANADE -México), the World Bank (Zambia), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC – Perú), the Antitrust private miniclub (Brasil) and the Externado University (Colombia), among others.

Gabriel authored the only book about merger control in Latin America (Porrúa) and published several papers with the American Bar Association (US), the International Bar Association (US), the International Chamber of Commerce (México and France) and UNAM (México). He is currently writing the first antitrust vademécum in the world (Tirant lo Blanch).

Gabriel obtained his law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana, his LLM in Business Law from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and completed his PhD studies with the same institution. He also obtained a diploma in European Competition Law from Kings College London. He currently lectures Competition Law at Universidad Iberoamericana and is the director of the Competition Law diploma at Tirant lo Blanc (Spain).