PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Gustavo González is a senior associate with over a decade of experience advising domestic and international clients on antitrust and regulatory matters. His practice focuses on competition litigation, cross-border merger control, gun-jumping risks in M&A transactions, cartel investigations, and abuse of dominance cases.
He regularly advises on complex matters involving cartel conduct (both with and without leniency applications), unilateral conduct, essential facilities, and barriers to entry. His industry experience covers a wide range of sectors, including telecommunications, technology, energy, financial services, aviation, transportation, real estate, public procurement, retail and investment funds.
Prior to joining Basham, Gustavo built a well-rounded antitrust career combining top-tier private practice with substantial public sector leadership, having worked at an international law firm and served within Mexico’s two competition authorities — the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT). He also completed an internship at Spain’s National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC), adding valuable comparative insight into European competition law frameworks.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers
PUBLICATIONS
Gustavo has published articles in leading antitrust publications, including Concurrences, Competition Policy International, and Thomson Reuters – Practical Law.
- From Autonomy to Centralization: Implications of Mexico’s Organizational Simplification Reform for the Future of Economic Competition, Concurrences – Antitrust Writing Awards 2025 2025 (Awarded in Business – Americas Category).
- The Mexican Competition Authority files its first-class action lawsuit against 3 companies and an association in the pharmaceutical distribution market, Concurrences Bulletin (October 2024) — Antitrust Writing Awards 2025 (Nominated in Private Enforcement Category).
- Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: Timing is Everything when Mexico is Involved, Competition Policy International – Antitrust Chronicle (septiembre 2024).
- Abuse of Dominance in Mexico, Thomson Reuters – Practical Law (March 2025)
- Entre la inmunidad y la indemnización: Retos de la aplicación de acciones colectivas por infracciones de competencia en México, COFECE (Essay Competition 2024).
- Colusión verde: los peligros anticompetitivos del ESG, Revista Jurídica de Pérez-Llorca, 13ª Edición (May 2025).
AWARDS
Antitrust Writing Awards 2025 (organized by Concurrences and George Washington University Law School):
- Winner – Business (Americas Category)
- Nominee – Business (Private Enforcement Category)
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Gustavo participated as speaker at the Permanent Research Seminar on Digital Rights and Justice, organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas of UNAM, adressing the intersection between competition law, data protection, and consumer rights in digital markets.
He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Law at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM), with a research focus on competition law.
