Miguel Flores Bernés > Greenberg Traurig, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Greenberg Traurig, S.C. Offices
PASEO DE LA REFORMA NO. 265 PH1
COLONIA CUAUHTÉMOC
MÉXICO CITY, D.F. C.P. 06500
Mexico
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Miguel Flores Bernés
Work Department
Antitrust Litigation & Competition Regulation
Position
Shareholder
Career
Miguel Flores Bernés focuses his practice on antitrust and competition issues, assisting national and international clients in investigation proceedings of alleged anticompetitive conduct, concentrations, and defense strategies before specialized antitrust courts.
He has assisted clients in the competition clearance of transactions by the Mexican competition authorities, such as Federal Competition Commission (Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica – COFECE) and Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de las Telecomunicaciones – IFT). Likewise, he represents economic agents in: i) proceedings for the investigation of alleged anticompetitive conduct (cartels, abuse of dominance and unlawful concentrations), including fine reduction programs (leniency and early closure of a probe with commitments); and ii) proceedings related to barriers to competition, essential inputs and declarations of lack of effective competition.
His experience also encompasses the development and implementation of defense strategies before specialized competition courts, and compliance advice to mitigate and prevent risks of violating competition law, including internal investigations for companies in various industries including, transportation, health, energy, specialized services, manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, among others.
Prior to joining the firm, he was a Commissioner in the Federal Competition Commission (2006-2013) and before that, he acted as economic legal advisor in the office of the President of Mexico. Previously, he focused his practice in the cost-benefit analysis of economic regulation at the Mexican Ministry of Economy. He also acquired extensive experience in negotiation and international affairs by being part of the group of lawyers that negotiated Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties with the European Union, Japan, Singapore, Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Iceland, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, and in different international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Concentrations
Antitrust
Cartels and Investigations
Mergers Control and Joint Ventures
Competition
Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Agribusiness
Capabilities
Antitrust Litigation & Competition Regulation
White Collar Defense & Special Investigations
Latin America Practice
Admission to Practice
Mexico
Languages
Spanish, Native
English, Fluent
Memberships
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Competition Commission, Mexico Chapter
- President, 2019-Present
- Vice President, 2013-2017
- Member of the Board of Directors, 2017
- Member and Coordinator, Mexican Bar Association, Competition Commission of the Bar Antitrust/Competition Section, 2015-2017
- Member of the fourth “Antitrust in America Conference”, joint sponsor with the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and Mexican Bar Association, 2017
Education
- Ph.D. candidate, Antitrust/Competition Law, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013
- LL.M., with distinction, International Economic Law, University of Warwick, 1997
- Law Degree, Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, 1992
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Competition and antitrust
(Leading individuals)Clients of Greenberg Traurig, S.C. particularly value the firm’s ‘highly specialised’ competition and antitrust team due to its members’ professional experience at the competition commission. The group regularly acts for major players in a variety of industries when COFECE undertakes investigations into their sector of operation, and the department also saw a rise in activity for its pre-merger filing practice during the course of 2022. The practice is co-led by Victor Manuel Frías, an expert in transaction-related competition law matters; and Miguel Flores Bernés (a former Commissioner at what was then the Comisión Federal de Competencia) who is well-versed in government merger reviews, investigations into anti-competitive conduct, litigation and general compliance counsel. At associate level, both Abel Rivera Pedroza and Valery Dayne García Zavala are recommended by clients, while Rocío Olea Salgado has played a key role in handling the aforementioned boom in pre-merger filing mandates.