Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Castañeda y Asociados is set to shut down after 28 years when its founder Gabriel Castañeda retires in June.

30 January 2023

Brazil’s antitrust enforcer has launched a wide-reaching investigation into 18 companies and 25 individuals over suspicions they rigged tenders for business intelligence products and services.

24 January 2023

Argentina’s National Commission for Competition Defence has published its first guidelines on market investigations, clarifying that companies cannot access files compiled during sectoral studies.

24 January 2023

Brazil’s antitrust enforcer has opened an investigation into Apple’s App Store policies, a week after Mexico’s competition and telecommunications authorities reportedly launched parallel probes into the same allegedly unlawful restrictions.

20 January 2023

Mexico’s competition authority and the country’s telecommunications regulator have reportedly launched parallel abuse probes into Apple over its App Store policies, in what could spark another jurisdictional battle between the two agencies.

17 January 2023

Argentina’s economy ministry has sanctioned two pay-TV companies owned by Grupo Clarín for preventing an América Móvil subsidiary from offering bundled services to consumers in the country’s capital and several other cities.

17 January 2023

Chile’s competition tribunal has rejected a cartel settlement between the national competition authority and a group of taxi stations because one of the operators subsequently denounced his involvement despite admitting to it before the enforcer.

11 January 2023

Dechert, Commeo and Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Advogados have strengthened their respective partnerships in Brussels, Frankfurt and São Paulo, while Actecon has promoted two senior associates to counsel in Istanbul.

11 January 2023

Chile’s antitrust watchdog has asked its decision-making body to fine a supermarket operator for failing to disclose documents about potential new store openings as the agency reviewed its merger with a rival.

10 January 2023

Brazil’s antitrust watchdog has opened a preliminary probe into a suspected fuel resale cartel, as enforcers in Sweden and Poland have launched market inquiries into rising fuel prices.

09 January 2023