Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Mexico’s competition enforcer has fined AT&T and Warner Bros Discovery €2.6 million for failing to notify it of their separation of WarnerMedia's Mexican subsidiaries after the country’s telecoms regulator approved the underlying €42.8 billion tie-up last month.

09 September 2022

Brazil’s competition enforcer has fined three liquefied petroleum gas distributors over €122 million in total for fixing prices and dividing the market for distributing and reselling the fuel.

18 August 2022

Ecuador’s antitrust enforcer has fined five companies for rigging public tenders for medical supplies in a decision that has sparked controversy over how the authority assessed their corporate structure.

18 August 2022

Peru’s Competition Tribunal has affirmed a €1.1 million penalty imposed on Sociedad Eléctrica del Sur Oeste, ruling that the country’s competition authority properly defined the relevant market when it found the energy supplier abused its dominance.

16 August 2022

Colombia’s largest airline is seeking expedited approval from the national aviation authority to complete its proposed acquisition of low-cost carrier Viva Air, claiming the latter’s “delicate financial situation” requires urgent integration.

15 August 2022

Colombia’s antitrust enforcer has joined a Chilean court in ordering Visa and Mastercard to stop threatening sanctions on banks that use rival transaction processing services to simplify international payments and save on hefty fees.

01 August 2022

Colombia’s antitrust watchdog has fined a rice mill and three of its executives a combined €4.6 million for obstructing the authority’s dawn raid by refusing to provide access to certain emails and other documents.

28 July 2022

Brazil’s antitrust watchdog is seeking sanctions against a national bar association for publishing a pricing table used by lawyers that set minimum rates for certain legal services.

21 July 2022

Colombia’s competition enforcer has launched an investigation into whether the country’s largest airline and a local travel agency breached a merger condition after the authority conditionally approved their joint venture in 2018.

21 July 2022

Brazilian law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados has recruited a former prosecutor at the country’s antitrust enforcer in a rare counsel hire.

11 July 2022