25 enero, 2009 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

25 enero, 20096 febrero, 2010 Juan David Gutiérrez R.

“Manual para la formulación y aplicación de las leyes de competencia” (UNCTAD, 2004)

Fairness and the Challenge of Making Markets Work Better 19 octubre, 2020
Fairness and the Challenge of Making Markets Work Better Niamh Dunne Abstract This article explores the revival of fairness as the lodestar of EU competition enforcement. It considers the theory and evolving discourse of fairness, then identifies and evaluates examples...
D Daniel Sokol
Big Tech and antitrust: Assessing the House Judiciary Committee staff report Technology and Innovation Monday, October 26, 2020 | 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET 19 octubre, 2020
America’s historical approach to antitrust has promoted economic competition for the consumer’s benefit. Decades of scholarship and careful legal practice created this approach and formulated rigorous analytical tools to support it, enabling a vibrant, dynamic, and market-oriented economy. Recently, a...
D Daniel Sokol
Let's Collude 19 octubre, 2020
Let's Collude Hamid Aghadadashli Marsh & McLennan Companies - Brussels Office Patrick Legros Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Abstract Managers have imperfect information about each other's willingness to collude and may signal this willingness through direct communication or market actions....
D Daniel Sokol

Dos nombramientos de administradores distintos llegan al Registro 19 octubre, 2020
Es la Resolución de la Dirección General de 24 de septiembre de 2020En el presente recurso están presentados por diferentes personas dos títulos relativos al nombramiento de administrador de una misma sociedad, realizados por dos distintas juntas por existir controversia respecto de la titularidad de la condición de socios y por tanto de las mayorías exigibl […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
La escuela de Salamanca y las bases filosóficas del derecho contractual 19 octubre, 2020
La idea de que el carácter vinculante de las promesas – de los contratos – tiene algo que ver con la moralidad y supone el ejercicio de una “virtud”, la virtud de cumplir las propias promesas, de mantener la palabra dada, es producto de la reconstrucción de las bases del Derecho Contractual de la Escuela de Salamanca. “Al celebrar un contrato las partes real […]
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Los efectos sociales de la monogamia 18 octubre, 2020
Carl Heinrich BlochCivitatem salvam sine matrimoniorum frequentia non posseEl Estado no puede sobrevivir sin el matrimonio Aulius GeliusA great social achievement of the early Middle Ages was the imposition of the same rules of sexual and domestic conduct on both rich and poor,David HerlihyCuando se examinan las causas de la violencia doméstica, no se hace s […]
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The European Green Deal & Competition Policy – Call for contributions on how EU competition rules and sustainability policies can work together 19 octubre, 2020
On 13 October 2020, the European Commission (EC) published a call for contributions to gather ideas on how EU competition rules (State aid, antitrust, and merger control) and sustainability policies can best work together. The aim is to gather the widest set of views possible to determine how the competition rules should be amended (if... Continue reading
Elisabetta Righini (Latham & Watkins LLP), Javier Ruiz-Calzado (Latham & Watkins LLP), David Little (Latham & Watkins LLP) and Pierre Bichet (Latham & Watkins LLP)
Jurisdictional issues in deals involving joint ventures – Review of the General Court judgment in Heidelberg Cement and Schwenk Zement (T-380/17) 14 octubre, 2020
The judgment provides useful jurisdictional clarifications for deals involving joint ventures (JVs) acting as an acquirer. The General Court (GC) confirms that when the true players behind the transaction are the parent companies, rather than the JV — because they did the deal valuation, negotiated the transaction structure, and determined the purchase price […]
Pierre Bichet (Latham & Watkins LLP)
Dutch Court holds former director personally liable for North Sea shrimps cartel fine 13 octubre, 2020
Introduction On 23 September 2020 a former director of one of the North Sea shrimps cartelists was held personally liable for damage of over € 13 million by the Dutch District Court of Noord-Nederland (“Court”). According to the Court, the director’s personal involvement in the cartel qualified as improperly fulfilling his duties as a director. This... Conti […]
Mariska van de Sanden (Bird & Bird, The Netherlands) and Tialda Beetstra (Bird & Bird, The Netherlands)

A Look Back at Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Antitrust Opinions While on the Supreme Court 19 septiembre, 2020
As tributes pour in for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following news of her passing on September 18, the jurist is being remembered for her efforts to support women’s rights. This post is intended to provide a look back at Ginsburg’s contributions to antitrust law during her time on the High Court from... Continue reading The post A Look Bac […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)
Seven U.S. business review letters in seven months reflect interest in Antitrust Division’s views on proposed business conduct 30 julio, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has issued more business review letters in 2020 than in any year since 2002. Recent years have averaged only one letter. So why is there this sudden interest in a statement of the Antitrust Division’s enforcement intentions with respect to proposed business conduct? Concerns about how the Antitrust... Continu […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Visit DOJ and Score a Leniency 16 junio, 2020
A. The Broiler Chicken Civil Litigation/Criminal Indictment On June 3, 2020, a grand jury in Colorado returned an indictment charging executives from Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and Claxton Poultry Farms with fixing prices and rigging bids nationwide for broiler chickens [I wonder how the grand jury met? Zoom?] The case was filed in the... Continue rea […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)

Investment Canada Act National Security Review Timelines Temporarily Extended 1 octubre, 2020
October 1, 2020 Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Canadian Government’s temporary extension, effective from July 31, 2020 to the end of 2020, of the national security review timelines under the Investment Canada Act. In addition to its immediate impact, this extension should also be understood more broadly as consist […]
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Running a Friends-and-family Promotion in Canada? Cruel, Cryptic CASL Strikes Again 21 agosto, 2020
August 21, 2020 During the COVID-19 epidemic, one marketing development that I have noticed is an increased effort to promote destination marketing, including through promotional contests. In this regard, I have acted for several countries assisting them with their destination marketing related promotions. My new Canadian Lawyer column discusses some of th […]
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Competition Bureau Issues Updated Competitor Collaboration Guidelines for Public Comment 10 agosto, 2020
August 10, 2020 Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Competition Bureau’s revised Competitor Collaboration Guidelines. This Update includes an overview of sections 45 and 90.1 of the Competition Act, a summary of the Bureau’s key proposed changes and implications for collaborations between competitors. Below is an excer […]
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Se aceptan compromisos por la Comisión Europea para garantizar la competencia en los mercados de chipsets para módems y decodificadores (octubre 2020) 13 octubre, 2020
Los compromisos (commitment decisions) permiten negociar a las autoridades y empresas implicadas soluciones para resolver restricciones de competencia sin que se impongan sanciones. Dada su importancia práctica, ya han captado la atención de la doctrina científica (al respecto, OLMEDO PERALTA, E., Las decisiones de compromisos (commitment decisions) y la ter […]
La Comisión (UE) sanciona nuevamente a proveedores de piezas de automóvil 2 octubre, 2020
La clemencia ha permitido nuevamente la detección de un cártel a nivel europeo, esta vez en el sector de los proveedores de piezas de automóvil (concretamente en relación con los módulos de puertas y reguladores de ventanas). La sanción asciende a 18 millones de euros y ha sido comunicada por la Comisión UE el 29 de septiembre de 2020 (aquí).Las sanciones se […]
Ayudas Públicas y Coranovirus (COVID-19): el "Marco temporal" y su prolongación 17 marzo, 2020
Autor: Comisión EuropeaAnte la situación excepcional a que asiste la Unión Europea, la Comisión (UE) ha presentado un "Marco temporal" que flexibiliza y otorga rapidez a la concesión de ayudas estatales relacionadas con el Coranovirus (aquí), aplicable en un primer momento a las ayudas públicas concedidas desde el 1 de febrero de 2020 a finales de […]

Comisión Europea v Google 28 agosto, 2015
Hace cuatro meses, la Comisión Europea le envió a Google [Diclaimer: este blog se aloja en un sitio de Google] su Statement of Objections (SO) en la que indicaba qué le objetaba a dicha firma (síntesis: buscador, android tal vez, otros que no recuerdo). La investigación comenzó en 2010, convengamos. En síntesis, se decía:"Google systematically positions […]
Francisco Agüero
i am back 28 agosto, 2015
El último post fue hace varios meses. Razones para escribir, abundan. Razones para no escribir, pueden ser mayores. Como sea: I am back.
Francisco Agüero
U. of Chicago Summer Institute Law and Economics: Economic Analysis of Contracts and Commercial Law 14 enero, 2015
Un interesante programa en Derecho & Economía imparte la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago, en julio de este año. Me parece recomendable (disclaimer: postulé a él), y hay docentes del nivel de Eric Posner, Randal Picker, entre otros.Más información, acá: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/summerinstitute P.D.. El deadline se ha extendido, […]
Francisco Agüero

Ex-post and ex-ante rules 6 agosto, 2020
Ex-post and ex-ante rules: why competition law and regulation don't easily fit into one or other category.
Kevin Coates
Access and Interoperability and Antitrust 16 julio, 2020
Many of you will have seen a lecture I’ve given on several occasions since around 2011 when I discuss antitrust issues around interoperability. My basic concern is that the competition rules – and I’m thinking in particular of the EU’s 2004 Microsoft Decision and the 2007 General Court upholding of that decision – see interoperability […]
Kevin Coates
The problem(s) of tech markets 3 febrero, 2020
There is a popular perception that competition law – and competition economics – has failed to keep up with technology markets. I don’t want to comment on whether I think that’s true but I do want to set out briefly what some of the problems might be. We’ve come a long way from a farmer […]
Kevin Coates

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Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

Competencia y Regulación en América Latina | Antitrust and Regulation in Latin America | Concorrência e Regulamento na América Latina

Día: 25 enero, 2009

“Manual para la formulación y aplicación de las leyes de competencia” (UNCTAD, 2004)