Enrique Carrera

Practice Areas

Partner. Enrique is an international lawyer specializing in all aspects of global antitrust and foreign investment (FDI) and subsidies (FSR) control with special focus on EU and Spanish competition law. He has advised numerous national and international clients on commercial matters involving general EU, antitrust,merger control, state aid law, FDI and FSR matters.

Enrique’s merger control practice covers difficult mergers in the air transport, retail banking, cement, healthcare (hospitals, fertility clinics), cruises, packaging and delivery, consumer goods, chemicals, food and telecoms sectors. Clients he has worked for include corporates such as Aon, Grupo Bimbo, Renault Group, HP, Sony, Solvay, Amadeus, Holcim, Novartis, ABB, Goldman Sachs, EADS, UPS, Carnival Corporation, Iberia, Air Berlin, Vueling and LATAM as well as private equity houses such as Cinven, CVC, KKR, Advent, Bridgepoint and Hellman & Friedman among others.

Career

Enrique lectures regularly on competition issues in LL.M programs in Spain and publishes regularly on competition issues.

Personal

LL.M in European and Competition Law, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. LL.M in German and EU Law, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Diplôme d'Études Supérieures (DESUP) in Legal and Economic Studies of the EU, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Bachelor of Laws (specialization in European Law), Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid.

Professional Memberships

He serves as a non-Governmental advisor at the International Competition Network (ICN) on behalf of the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC). He has handled numerous Article 101 and 102 (and their Spanish equivalents) investigations for a large array of clients. In addition, he has advised extensively on State Aid issues in the banking sector.