Alberto Brown

Practice Areas

Competition/Antitrust

Corporate/Commercial

Career

Dr. Alberto Brown is a partner at Almeida Guzmán & Asociados, a Quito law firm. Alberto is an attorney with more than 10 years of experience in commercial and antitrust law. He completed his PhD in competition law at the University of Edinburgh (2018 – 2021) and teaches private and competition law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in the city of Quito. Alberto also has an LLM degree in competition and antitrust law from New York University School of Law and an LLB from the University of Navarra (Spain). He is the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section International Ambassador for the Republic of Ecuador.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association - International Section

Ecuadorian Bar

Ecuadorian Institute of Competition Law

Publications

· Brown, Alberto. Private Law and Competition Regulation. Routledge, Taylor & Francis (2024).

· Brown, Alberto. “La idea de la competencia desleal.” En Derecho Privado Comparado. Tirant lo Blanch (2024).

· Brown, Alberto. “Protection of Competition.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law. Edward Elgar (2024).

· Brown, Alberto; Urízar, José. “Comparative Guide to Dominance – Ecuador.” Mondaq (2023).

· Brown, Alberto. “The common law right to trade and competition regulation in English law.” Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law (Thomson Reuters, Canada) vol. 15, no. 2 (2021): 275.

· Brown, Alberto and Letelier, Pablo. “Enriquecimiento injustificado por actos de competencia desleal: continuidad y divergencia en el derecho privado.” Iuris Dictio 24 (2019): 61.

· Brown, Alberto. “Antitrust y competencia desleal.” En Estudios de Derecho de Competencia Ecuatoriano 1 (2018): 81.

· Brown, Alberto; Urízar, José and Robalino, Daniel. “Cartel Regulation – Ecuador.” Getting the Deal Through (2017).

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

French

Education