RocaJunyent incorporates Gerard Pérez Olmo as a partner in the Competition Department

From DWF-RCD, the new partner will lead the EU and Competition Law team from RocaJunyent’s Madrid office

Madrid, 2 May 2023. RocaJunyent has appointed Gerard Pérez Olmo as a new partner in the EU and Competition Law area in its Madrid office. The new partner is an expert in anti-competitive practices, merger control, claims for damages and unfair competition, as well as regulatory matters in a wide range of sectors, including energy, health, telecommunications and transport.

Gerard Pérez Olmo has been to date the partner in charge of Global Competition and Compliance at DWF-RCD, a firm he joined in 2020 after founding the legal boutique Gold Abogados in 2008, winner of the Client Service Award-Spain from Chambers & Partners. In his more than 20 years of professional experience, Gerard Pérez Olmo has also practised at the firms DLA Piper, SJ Berwin and B. Cremades & Asociados.

In addition to his activity as a lawyer, the partner also practises in the main bodies in the field of competition. In this regard, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association for the Defense of Competition, which he presided between 2018 and 2021. He is also a non-governmental advisor of the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) for the Advocacy and Cartels working groups of the International Competition Network (ICN).

The new partner also stands out for his academic facet, with the training of new generations of lawyers being a constant throughout his career. Gerard Pérez Olmo has been a lecturer in Competition Law in the Master’s Degree in Business Law and the Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession at the University of Navarra since 2006, as well as a lecturer in Contract Law and in the Moot Court course at the Université de Poitiers since 2010. In addition, he is also a guest lecturer in the Master’s Degree in European Competition Law at the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles.

Joan Roca, executive president of RocaJunyent, explains that “the signing of Gerard Pérez Olmo is part of the growth strategy of the firm’s Madrid office”.