Gilberto Alfonso Gutiérrez Perdomo

Flor Bustamante Pizarro Hurtado is a law firm committed to excellence in legal services, with partners possessing more than 25 years’ experience advising foreign and national clients.

To date, the firm’s Director of Antitrust has succeeded in more than 36 cases of complex investigations before the antitrust and unfair competition authority, and has directed merger processes in strategic sectors with especially favourable resolutions.

He is joined by a team of economists and lawyers, comprehensively trained to address technical defences in both administrative and judicial proceedings. As a result, Flor Bustamante Pizarro Hurtado’s success stories are shared by its clients, who recognise the firm’s experience, maturity, confidence, agility and communication in rendering optimal solutions for matters concerning competition and unfair competition, telecoms, pharmaceutical, retail, agro-industry, forestry, advertising, administrative law, as well as internal audits of ISO 9001 processes.

The firm’s client base is composed of companies participating in highly competitive markets, with direct influence at the level of competitors and consumers. They are esteemed market leaders in constant growth – linked to national and international economic groups – who endeavour to be respectful of antitrust regulations, data protection and the constitutional economic framework. Such clients include: CONSORSIO ECUATORIANO DE TELECOMUNICACIONES CONECEL S.A. (a subsidiary of America Movil Mexico); FEMSA Salud (a subsidiary of Femsa Mexico); Precisagro Ecuador (a subsidiary of Disagro Guatemala); Leterago del Ecuador; NOVOPAN del Ecuador; FERTISA TERMINALES PORTUARIAS; as well as PRIMAX COMERCIAL DEL ECUADOR SOCIEDAD ANONIMA (a subsidiary of PRIMAX Perú).

Serving Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador, Gilberto Alfonso Gutiérrez Perdomo has, for more than 20 years, dedicated his professional practice to the areas of competition law and administrative law. He is the Founder – and currently leader – of AntiTrust Consultores & Abogados, a well-recognised legal bureau that has been instrumental in leading the right of free competition in Ecuador since 2013.

Gilberto’s career in the public sector, as an official of the country’s first authority in 2009, allowed him to contribute to the resolution of the initial cases and to regulate the right to free and fair competition in the region.

His passage to the private sector in 2011 resulted in the most significant international companies and rankings – in the telecoms, pharmaceutical, wood industry, automotive, agribusiness, retail and forestry sectors – to recommend him for his high-level expertise and efficacy.

Meanwhile, for more than 15 years, Gilberto has been a university professor specialised in undergraduate and postgraduate levels, wherein he has further engaged with higher education organisations – including Universidad San Francisco de Quito as a postgraduate coordinator.

Today, he participates as a higher education coordinator, fulfilling such fundamental roles as headlining at the International University of Ecuador, as well as arbitrating at the Center for Arbitration & Mediation, Holy Spirit University.

His academic trajectory – in Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina and Spain – provides him with the legal versatility to ensure cutting-edge advice across differing jurisdictions.