Miguel Flores Bernés
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 2 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Miguel Flores Bernés
Practice Areas
Antitrust Litigation & Competition Regulation
White Collar Defense & Special Investigations
Latin America Practice
Career
Miguel Flores Bernés focuses his practice on antitrust and competition issues, assisting national and international clients in investigation proceedings of alleged anticompetitive conduct, concentrations, and defense strategies before specialized antitrust courts.
He has assisted clients in the competition clearance of transactions by the Mexican competition authorities, such as Federal Competition Commission (Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica - COFECE) and Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de las Telecomunicaciones - IFT). Likewise, he represents economic agents in: i) proceedings for the investigation of alleged anticompetitive conduct (cartels, abuse of dominance and unlawful concentrations), including fine reduction programs (leniency and early closure of a probe with commitments); and ii) proceedings related to barriers to competition, essential inputs and declarations of lack of effective competition.
His experience also encompasses the development and implementation of defense strategies before specialized competition courts, and compliance advice to mitigate and prevent risks of violating competition law, including internal investigations for companies in various industries including, transportation, health, energy, specialized services, manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, among others.
Prior to joining the firm, he was a Commissioner in the Federal Competition Commission (2006-2013) and before that, he acted as economic legal advisor in the office of the President of Mexico. Previously, he focused his practice in the cost-benefit analysis of economic regulation at the Mexican Ministry of Economy. He also acquired extensive experience in negotiation and international affairs by being part of the group of lawyers that negotiated Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties with the European Union, Japan, Singapore, Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Iceland, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, and in different international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Concentrations:
Antitrust
Cartels and Investigations
Mergers Control and Joint Ventures
Competition
Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Agribusiness
Professional Memberships
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Competition Commission, Mexico Chapter; President, 2019-Present; Vice President, 2013-2017; Member of the Board of Directors, 2017.
Member and Coordinator, Mexican Bar Association, Competition Commission of the Bar Antitrust/Competition Section, 2015-2017
Member of the fourth "Antitrust in America Conference", joint sponsor with the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and Mexican Bar Association, 2017
Personal
Ph.D. candidate, Antitrust/Competition Law, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013
LL.M., with distinction, International Economic Law, University of Warwick, 1997
Law Degree, Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, 1992
Chambers Review
Latin America
Adept partner Miguel Flores Bernés is co-head of the antitrust litigation and competition regulation department at Greenberg Traurig in Mexico.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Miguel Flores Bernés is a well-known lawyer in the competition area; he is very technical but also he has the ability to explain complicated matters in a more simple manner."
"Miguel Flores Bernés is a well-known lawyer in the competition area; he is very technical but also he has the ability to explain complicated matters in a more simple manner."