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关于 Álvaro Puig
Álvaro Puig is a Senior Associate in our Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice.
Álvaro’s practice encompasses all aspects of competition law, including merger control, behavioural matters, antitrust compliance, as well as foreign direct investment (FDI) matters.
He has extensive experience in advising global corporate clients, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds on complex cross-border mandates across a wide variety of sectors. He has particular experience in multi-jurisdictional merger control proceedings before EU and other global regulators, and multi-jurisdictional FDI proceedings.
Álvaro also worked in the Brussels ACT practice and has been seconded to the Paris office. Prior to private practice, Álvaro completed a traineeship at the merger case support and policy unit of the Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) of the European Commission, as well as the legal service of the former Spanish Competition Authority (CNC).
近期项目经验
- Cinven on the EU merger control aspects of the acquisition of Idealista, the leading online real estate classifieds platform in Southern Europe.
- KKR on the global merger control aspects of the acquisition of leading fertility player IVI-RMA.
- Renault Group on the foreign investment aspects of its powetrain technology joint venture with Geely and the subsequent minority investment by Aramco.
- Cinven, KKR and Providence on the EU merger control aspects related to the public takeover bid for the entire share capital of MasMóvil.
- Advising a global payments technology company on the merger control aspects and antitrust implications of the sector-transforming merger between the three domestic card payment systems (Servired, Sistema 4b and Euro 6000) in Spain.
- HOCHTIEF on its acquisition (alongside ACS and Atlantia) of toll-road operator Abertis.
- JT International Iberia on the antitrust investigation of the Spanish competition authority in relation to an alleged infringement in the market for the manufacturing and distribution of cigarettes and its subsequent appeal of the authority’s decision before the Spanish High Court.
- Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) on the multijurisdictional merger control aspects of the business swap with Sanofi, with BI acquiring Sanofi's global animal health business (Merial) in exchange for the sale of its global consumer healthcare business (excluding China).
- Fresenius and its subsidiary Helios Kliniken, on its acquisition of Quirónsalud, Spain’s largest private hospital network.
- Amadeus IT Group on its acquisition of US airline IT company Navitaire.
执业资质
Education
- LLM in EU Law, Universidad Carlos III
- Law and Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III
Professional qualifications
- Admitted to the Madrid Bar (Spain)
- Member of the Spanish Association for Competition Law (Asociación Española para la Defensa de la Competencia)