27 May 2026
Eversheds Sutherland appoints Alberto Pérez Hernández as legal director of Competition and EU Law in Spain
"Eversheds Sutherland hires Alberto Pérez Hernández as legal director in its Competition and EU Law practice in Spain; he will work on merger control, FDI screening, cartel and dominance proceedings and competition litigation."
Pérez Hernández spent nine years at Uría Menéndez working in the Competition and EU Law department across the Brussels and Madrid offices. During that period he completed a placement as a visiting lawyer in the Competition Group at Slaughter and May in London.
His practice covers merger control filings, foreign direct investment screening, cartel and abuse-of-dominance proceedings before both the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) and the European Commission, competition litigation including stand-alone damages claims before Spanish courts, and State aid matters before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has advised clients in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications, defence and sports sectors.
Pérez Hernández holds a law degree from the Universidad de Salamanca, a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College London, and a Master’s degree in legal practice from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and completed an academic exchange at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He also teaches horizontal agreements on the UC3M Master’s programme in legal practice and merger control on the Expert Diploma in Competition Law and has published in the Oxford Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, EU Law Live and the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Magazine.
Jacobo Martínez, managing partner of Eversheds Sutherland in Spain, said Pérez Hernández is “a professional of enormous talent, with a comprehensive vision of competition law and proven experience in complex matters before national and European authorities,” and that his arrival reinforces the firm’s capacity to advise international and domestic clients on increasingly sophisticated cases.