Garrigues launches Anti-trust, Economic regulation and Intellectual Property practice in Lima

Garrigues has hired Ivo Gagliuffi to co-head the practice alongside economist Javier Coronado

Garrigues has launched the Anti-trust, Economic regulation and Intellectual Property practice in Lima, bringing on board lawyer Ivo Gagliuffi (pictured left) and economist Javier Coronado (pictured right). With more than twenty years’ experience in the public and private sector, the pair will coordinate the practice and provide an integrated approach, from both a legal and economic standpoint, giving it a competitive advantage in the Peruvian market.

The new area will cover matters relating to free competition, economic regulation, impact analysis, unfair competition, compliance, disclosure, consumer law, international trade defence, intellectual property, trademarks, patents and new technologies. The practice will harness synergies with strategic areas at Garrigues, such as Corporate Law, M&A and Capital Markets, in order to advise on prior clearance of business concentrations; also with Public law, to defend clients in dealings with the authorities; and Litigation and International Arbitration, to provide expert opinions with significant financial content.

The expertise of Gagliuffi and Coronado in the public sector will be vital in developing the practice. Ivo Gagliuffi will join as a partner following his appointment at the upcoming partners’ meeting. Previously he was chairman of the Board of Indecopi (Peruvian National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property) from 2016 to 2020. Also at the Peruvian Anti-trust, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Agency, and was the first and only Peruvian candidate shortlisted for the post of General Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Javier Coronado, who joins as economic director, has served as Deputy Minister for Communications (2015 and 2016), a member of various regulatory bodies, and, between 2013 and 2020, as Manager of Economic Studies and General Manager of Indecopi. During that time, he bolstered the anti-trust authority and established the OECD Regional Center for Competition (RCC) in Peru.

In the private sector, both professionals are renowned for their lengthy careers. Gagliuffi has worked as a partner at major law firms such as Ferrero Abogados (today PPU Legal) and Lazo & De Romaña Abogados. At the same time, Coronado worked in the anti-trust and intellectual property practices in Spain and Europe at different consulting firms (Nera Economic Consulting and Charles Rivers Associates International).

They have both authored numerous scientific and informative publications.