Law Offices Of Luis Gomez

Luis Gomez serves as partner in the London office’s EU, Competition & Trade Department. He advises on general competition and merger control law at both the EU and UK levels, as well as varied competition issues in a wide range of industry sectors, including the oil and gas, mining, chemicals, infrastructure, agribusiness, media, consumer goods and financial services sectors.

Luis is co-author of “State Measures and Public Bodies” in PLC’s EC and UK Competition Law Practice Manuals and lectures on Distribution and Licensing as part of the King’s College Diploma on EU Competition Law. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1994 and became a partner in 2003.

Practice Focus
Luis focuses his practice on a full range of competition law advice — from cartel defense and leniency, abuse of dominance, distribution strategies and global or local compliance audits, to merger control processes and the analysis of complex joint ventures and strategic alliances. He regularly appears before the CMA and European Commission. Luis also has extensive knowledge of general antitrust and merger filing regimes in the US, having spent one year in Baker McKenzie’s Washington DC office. He previously spent time on secondment at Shell International Limited, coordinating merger filing strategies.
Representative Legal Matters
Represented Shell in its successful leniency application and subsequent European Commission investigation with respect to paraffin waxes.
Devised and implemented ground-breaking internal amnesty initiatives for various multinational clients to detect competition law infringements.
Advised Hewlett Packard on the competition law issues on a number of outsourcing deals.
Represented United Business Media in a number of merger investigations, including as a successful intervener in the EMAP/ABI transaction before the UK competition authorities.