About
LUIS GERARDO GARCÍA SANTOS COY IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM'S MEXICO CITY OFFICE AND PERMANENT VISITING PARTNER IN THE EUROPEAN OFFICE. HIS PRACTICE FOCUSES ON ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION.
Luis advises on all aspects of antitrust and competition law, including complex pre-merger filings, investigations, administrative procedures, constitutional (amparo) proceedings, and leniency applications. He also advises multinationals and private equity investors on acquisitions and investments in Mexico across multiple industries, including digital platforms, and on foreign direct investment matters.
His representative experience includes advising Warner Brothers Discovery in its acquisition by Paramount, Kimberly-Clark in the acquisition of Kenvue, Delta Airlines in its joint cooperation agreement with and investment in Grupo Aeroméxico, and Cornershop in its acquisition by Uber.
Luis has been ranked as Band 1, Tier 1 or equivalent in antitrust and competition by Chambers and Partners, Global Competition Review, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and Who's Who Legal. He has been consistently recognized as LACCA approved by the Latin America Corporate Counsel Association and has been shortlisted as Dealmaker of the Year by Global Competition Review.
Luis obtained his law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in 1993. He is a member of the Mexican Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker at national and international events on antitrust matters and has authored multiple publications, including chapters in the Global Competition Review Foreign Direct Investment Regulation Guide in 2022 and 2023, Lexology's Getting the Deal Through on Merger Control in 2023, Concurrences' A Jurisdictional Guide on Information Exchanges and Related Risks in 2022, Law Business Research's The Public Competition Enforcement Review in 2020 and 2021, and "Competencia Económica en Mercados Digitales" and "Economic Competition in Digital Markets: The Experience in Mexico" published by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Themis in 2021. He is fluent in Spanish and English.