Luis Gomez
UK Guide 2025
Band 5 : Competition Law
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About
Provided by Luis Gomez
Career
Luis Gómez is a Partner in the Competition, Trade & Foreign Investment Department of the London office of Baker McKenzie. He advises on general competition and merger control law at both the EU and UK levels and also has experience in global coordination strategies. His practice spans the whole breadth of competition law advice, ranging from cartel defense/leniency, abuse of dominance, distribution strategies and general compliance advice (including worldwide or local compliance audits and other initiatives), to merger control processes and the analysis of complex joint venture and strategic alliance situations. Luis regularly appears before the CMA and European Commission. Luis also has extensive knowledge of the general antitrust and merger filing regimes in the US, having spent one year in Baker & McKenzie's Washington D.C. office.
Luis has extensive experience of coordinating multi-jurisdictional strategies, in respect of merger control, cartels and leniency, distribution and compliance. He also has in-depth experience of advising clients on competition law issues in numerous industries, including the oil and gas, financial services, mining, IT, chemicals, aviation, travel, manufacturing, consumer goods and infrastructure sectors. Luis served as Chair of the Firm's EMEA Competition Law Practice Group and a member of the Global Antitrust & Competition Group's Steering Committee. He was seconded to Shell International Limited where he coordinated the worldwide regulatory filings for a major transaction.
He is counsel for BIAC before the OECD.
Chambers Review
UK
Luis Gomez often assists clients with merger clearance notifications to the CMA as well as foreign direct investment filings. He notably represents large multinationals from the natural resources and telecoms sectors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Luis Gomez has deep knowledge and expertise of our business, is very pragmatic and provides value-added advice."
"His analytical skills and depth of knowledge are exceptional but he can apply them in a commercial way."
"I am confident that he can talk to businesspeople in a way that they can understand the advice."
"Luis Gomez is just great. He is very close to us and is a great lawyer."
"Luis Gomez is very experienced and has strong commercial awareness. He anticipated the issues."
"Luis Gomez has deep knowledge and expertise of our business, is very pragmatic and provides value-added advice."
"His analytical skills and depth of knowledge are exceptional but he can apply them in a commercial way."
"I am confident that he can talk to businesspeople in a way that they can understand the advice."
"Luis Gomez is just great. He is very close to us and is a great lawyer."
"Luis Gomez is very experienced and has strong commercial awareness. He anticipated the issues."