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Carlos Vérgez is Head of the Competition & EU department at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. 

He has vast experience in advising multinationals in all areas of Competition Law (horizontal agreements and restrictive agreements, distribution contracts, compliance programmes, internal audits, merger controls, and state aid), as well as unfair competition in a wide range of sectors such as consumer electronics, retail distribution, TMT, industrial, audiovisual and food.

Before joining CMS, he worked as a competition and European Union law attorney at leading Spanish and international firms.

Carlos has been included in the list of the Spanish Competition Authority’s Non-Governamental Advisors to the International Competition Network.

He has been recognised for his expertise in Competition/European Law by the main legal directory Chambers & Partners.

Awards & Recognitions
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    "He did impeccable work for us in terms of his efficiency."
    Chambers & Partners Europe 2025
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    "Carlos Vérgez is an exceptional lawyer. His responsiveness is very quick, and the quality of his analysis is highly reliable."
    Chambers & Partners Europe
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    "He is very good technically, as well as being practical and having commercial vision."
    Chambers & Partners Europe
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    "Carlos Vérgez is very experienced and client-focused."
    Chambers & Partners Europe

Relevant experience

  • Carlos has advised leading companies in their sectors on a wide variety of matters. For example, he has advised Avis, Telefónica, Eurovía and Nokia on disciplinary proceedings from the National Markets and Competition Commission and Santander, Caixabank and Merlin Properties on various notifications to the European Commission and the National Markets and Competition Commission.

Publications

  • Carlos has published a wide variety of articles and works for both specialist and general publications and media.

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition (AEDC).

Awards & Rankings

Chambers & Partners: Competition/European Law

Lectures list

  • During his diverse career, Carlos has been a speaker at several prestigious seminars and events at universities and institutions such as the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition (AEDC) and the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE).

Education

  • 2001 - Master's Degree in European Law, European College of Bruges (Belgium).
  • 2000 - Master's Degree in European Integration, Universidad del País Vasco (Spain).
  • 1998 - Degree in en European and International Law, University of Leuven (Belgium).
  • 1998 - Graduate of Law and Degree in Economics, Universidad de Deusto (Spain).

Insights by Carlos

CMS Expert Guide to Competition Compliance Programmes

30 Jul 2025 2 min read

CMS Network Sharing 5: Celebrating 10 years of the Network Sharing Study

25 Sep 2024 3 min read

Green/sustainability claims and advertising and consumer greenwashing

15 Apr 2024 3 min read

Modifications introduced by the reform of the Spanish Competition Act through Royal Decree-Law 5/2023

11 Jul 2023 5 min read
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