Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice has determined that an orange farmer is time-barred from seeking damages from a juice cartel that settled with the country’s competition authority five years ago because the enforcer never issued an infringement decision.

05 January 2023

South America’s largest online marketplace has complained to the Brazilian and Mexican competition authorities that Apple imposes unlawful restrictions on digital retailers.

16 December 2022

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Colombian antitrust lawyers square up to one of Latin America’s better-respected competition authorities, which is unafraid to challenge problematic mergers – although concerns remain about its handling of leniency applications.

12 December 2022

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The Chilean antitrust bar is advising clients on a host of cases in the payment cards and banking markets as the National Economic Prosecutor (FNE) continues to crackdown on alleged anticompetitive conduct.

12 December 2022

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Mexico’s competition bar continues to advise clients on the full remit of antitrust matters despite facing an enforcer that was recently forced to suspend its decision-making due to a lack of quorum on its board of commissioners. 

12 December 2022

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Despite Peru’s new merger control regime coming into effect in 2021, the local antitrust bar remains chiefly focused on behavioural work, including some landmark no-poach and hub-and-spoke cases.

12 December 2022

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Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition (CNDC) continues to demand remedies for major cross-border transactions such as Disney/Fox and Discovery/WarnerMedia several years after they were first notified.

12 December 2022

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The Brazilian competition bar continues to guide high-profile clients through major multi-jurisdictional transactions and cartel probes before the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE).

12 December 2022

Carey’s competition practice founder Claudio Lizana has left the firm after more than three decades to open his own outfit in Santiago, taking with him several associates.

08 December 2022

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The Mexican Foreign direct investment (FDI) regime has decisively leaned towards an open and flexible approach with few restrictions on foreign investors, falling outside global trends on restricting FDI due to national security or other concerns.

06 December 2022