Sergio López

Competition & Antitrust

Sergio is partner at Von Wobeser y Sierra. With more than twenty years of experience, he is an expert in Competition & Antitrust. He belongs to the Competition & Antitrust practice, as well as the Automotive & Manufacturing, Consumer Goods and Energy & Natural Resources industry groups.

Prior to joining the firm, Sergio worked for almost twenty years at the former Federal Competition Commission and current Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) holding positions of the highest responsibility, among which stand out those of Director General for Contentious Affairs, Head of the Technical Secretariat and Head of the Investigative Authority.

Sergio actively participated in hundreds of constitutional control proceedings (amparo trials, constitutional disputes and unconstitutionality lawsuits) before the different institutions of the Federal Judiciary Branch. Furthermore, he supervised merger notification procedures, and initiated and conducted multiple investigations on cartels, abuse of dominance, essential inputs and existence of competition conditions in regulated markets and/or substantial market power.

He has been a speaker at several national and international forums on antitrust matters.