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Ricardo Alonso Soto

Professor of Commercial Law

Practice areas

Corporate and Commercial

Bio

Ricardo Alonso is a member of the Corporate Academic Counsel at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.

He specializes in the following practice areas: competition law, commercial distribution and insurance law.

He holds a law degree from the University of Oviedo (Valedictorian) and a doctorate in law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is Professor Emeritus of Commercial Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a permanent member of the General Codification Commission of the Ministry of Justice.
He has given classes and lectures in several Spanish and foreign universities such as the Universities of Externado de Bogotá Colombia; Lima, Peru; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Matías Delgado de San Salvador, El Salvador;, Trento and Pisa, Italy; and Lisbon, Portugal.

He is the author of several publications, books and articles in legal journals on insurance law, competition law, liberalization of markets and economic sectors, privatizations, commercial distribution and commercial contracts.

Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

Madrid Bar Association no. 27078
International Association for Insurance Law (AIDA)
International Federation for European Law (FIDE)
Spanish Association for Competition Law (AEDC)

Languages

Spanish
French
English

Publications

He is a member of the Governing Board of the following journals: Revista de Derecho Mercantil, Revista Española de Seguros y Gaceta Jurídica de la CEE y de la Competencia

“The Insuring Blame” (1978), “Environmental Pollution and Insurance” (1981), “SWAP” (1989), “The Enterprise and the Competition Regulation in Spain” (1990), “The Insurance Contract Act” (1991), “Deregulation Policy in Spain” (1995), “Predatory Pricing” (1999), “Law of the Commercial Distribution” (2001), “The Deregulation of Postal Services in Spain” (2001), , “Mergers and acquisitions of companies in European and Spanish Competition Law” (2004), “The relationships between the European and Spanish Competition law” (2005), “The public interest in the defence of competition” (2005), “Competition and port services” (2005), “Commercial distribution agreements and competition law” (2007), “The decentralisation in the enforcement of EEC Competition Law” (2007), “The new Spanish Competition Act” (2007), “Competition and Insurance” (2008). “Unfair competition and prices” (2009).”The merger control” (2010). Free access to services law (2010). “State Aids and Bankruptcy Law” (2010). “Commercial distribution contracts and competition law” (2012). “Trademarks and Competition Law” (2016). “Relationships between European and Spanish Competition Law” (2017). “The duty to declare the risk in the insurance contract” (2018). “The new regulation of port services” ((2018). “Mergers and Acquisitions and Competition Law”. (2019). “The regulation of financial products in the form of insurance” (2019). “Business integration and competition law” (2020)