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Our Practice
Antitrust and Competition Law
- Mergers
- Advice on mergers and acquisitions in Antitrust context.
- Mergers notification before the Competition Authority, including the whole process.
- Advice on previous meetings in order to initialize mergers notifications avoiding anticompetitive risks with the proposition of measures, such as previous due diligence and interchange of information processes.
- Advice on previous meetings in order to initialize Joint Ventures and collaboration agreements with the minimization of anticompetitive risks.
- Preventive Analysis on mergers, including the revision of measures and conditions and their negotiation with the Competition Authorities.
- Advice to third-parties regarding the request of information by the Competition Authority in the context of merger investigations.
- Coordination and advice on mergers’ measures that causes cross-border effects.
- Collusions
- Advice and defense of economic agents investigated by national and international Competition Authorities.
- Leniency programs, conciliatory agreements and alternatives endings to trials.
- Representation of potential victims of illegal agreements.
- Advice on client’s internal investigations.
- Definition of strategies of prevention and mitigation of illegal agreements risks.
- Advice on collusion investigations, including the defense of investigated actor’s interests in case of requests of information, declarations, and raids, telephonic interventions (wiretaps) and request of call registers.
- Judicial representation before the Chilean Competition Court and the Chilean Supreme Court in cases of collusion.
- Judicial and extrajudicial representation before Chilean Courts and the Chilean Competition Court in case of private damages and torts made by illegal agreements.
- Abuses of dominant position and unilateral conducts
- Advice to economic agents in the context of internal vertical integrations, in order to avoid anticompetitive unilateral risks.
- Advice and defense of economic agents investigated by national and international Competition Authorities.
- Judicial representation before the Chilean Competition Court and the Chilean Supreme Court in cases of abuse of dominant position, unilateral conducts and unfair competition conducts.
- Representation of potential victims of unilateral conducts.
- Analysis of competitive effects on distribution contracts, licensing contracts and commercial contracts that can involve vertical restrictions.
- Judicial representation
- Enforcement actions: Trials before the Chilean Competition Court about antitrust infractions.
- Non-enforcement actions: Actions before the Chilean Competition Court about requests, normative recommendations and sectorial reports.
- Civil damages and torts: Judicial and extrajudicial representation before Chilean Courts and the Chilean Competition Court.
- Legal reports
- Independent elaboration of legal documents in order to support non-represented parties, according to judicial and extrajudicial interest.
- General advisory
- Services of permanent answers to legal needs, in support of the clients.
- Regulated markets
- Advise on regulatory issues and representation before administrative and regulatory authorities.