Organisation: National Institute for the Defence of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Peru)

Peru’s antitrust agency has issued its first-ever no-poach infringement decision, fining six construction companies and four executives €1.4 million for agreeing not to hire rival workers.

12 May 2023

Peruvian lawmakers have unanimously passed a bill exempting softcore cartels and abuses of dominance from criminal proceedings, while also giving leniency applicants additional protections.

09 May 2023

Peru’s government has ousted the head of the country’s antitrust watchdog for failing to meet the role's minimum qualification requirements in a move that the former chair blasted as an act of political persecution.

23 March 2023

Peru’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Visa over allegations that it has abused its dominance by imposing fees on rival transaction processing services that offer consumers a cheaper alternative to making international payments.

08 March 2023

Peru’s competition watchdog has ordered a domestic subsidiary of Odebrecht to pay a €1 million fine for withholding information during a major cartel investigation in the construction sector.

21 February 2023

In a bid to revive its faltering leniency regime, Peru’s antitrust watchdog is calling for new legislation to exempt abuses of dominance and softcore cartels from criminal sanctions while increasing protections for whistleblowers.

09 February 2023