With professional practice in Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador, in 20 years he has dedicated his professional practice to the areas of competition law and administrative law. Founder and currently leader of AntiTrust Consultores & Abogados, a well-recognized lawyer bureau that has been leading the right of free competition since 2013 in Ecuador.

His function in the public sector, as an official of Ecuador’s highest authority in 2009, allowed him to contribute to the resolution of the first cases in the right to free and fair competition, which were increasingly important to regulate in the country. Gilberto’s passage to the private sector since 2011 allowed international companies and rankings of great importance in the areas of telecommunication, pharmaceutical, wood industry and production, automotive, agribusiness, retail, forestry sectors, to recognize him as the most effective and suitable option when it comes to controversy on the matter.

Gilberto Gutierrez has been for more than 15 years, a university professor specialized in undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where he further engaged in higher education organizations such as Universidad San Francisco de Quito as the postgraduate coordinator.

Currently, he participates as a higher education coordinator, playing fundamental roles such as being the headline in the international university of Ecuador and an arbitrator of the center of arbitration and holy spirit university mediation.

His academic trajectory in Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, and Spain, facilitates him with the sufficient legal versatility in various jurisdictions.

Contact

Telephone+593 998507732

Practice areas

Competition & unfair competition, telecommunication, pharmaceutics, retail, agroindustry, forestall, advertisement, communication, administrative law, internal auditor of processes ISO 9001. .

Awards

Top Leader Global Legal Insights 2020.
Leading Legal 500 2020.
Member Colombian association of competition law 2020.
Legal member 500 since 2013.
Chambers and Partners member since 2019.
International Advisory Experts member 2018.

Studies

Specialization in Competition Law , University Carlos III de Madrid España 2021.
Post-Master Diploma in deepened Administrative Law, Austral University Argentina 2020.
Certification in Good Practices in Free Competition, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 2019.
Master’s Degree in Administrative Law, San Francisco de Quito University Ecuador – in progress.
Diploma in New Techniques in Free Competition, Finis Terrae University Chile 2019.
Diploma in Iberoamerican Administrative Law, University of Coruña Chile 2018.
Lawyer – Revalidation, University San Francisco de Quito Ecuador 2006.
Master’s Degree in Business Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 2005.
Lawyer, Catholic University of Táchira Venezuela 2002.

Languages

Spanish and English.