septiembre 2012 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

25 septiembre, 2012 Leopoldo Pagotto

New Brazilian Antitrust Law to increase sanctions for cartel and to clarify the reach of leniency immunity

11 septiembre, 2012 Víctor Pavón-Villamayor

Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in Mexico

Mergers and Acquisitions under Common Ownership 31 marzo, 2023
Mergers and Acquisitions under Common Ownership Miguel Anton University of Navarra, IESE Business School Florian Ederer Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Yale University - Cowles Foundation Mireia Gine IESE Business...
D Daniel Sokol
The Dual Effects of Mergers on Peripheral Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry 30 marzo, 2023
The Dual Effects of Mergers on Peripheral Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry Myongjin Kim University of Oklahoma - Department of Economics Lawrence Mazur Purdue University Abstract Using data on four large mergers in the U.S. airline industry, we...
D Daniel Sokol
Business-to-Business Data Sharing within the EU Digital Market’ 15 September 2023 29 marzo, 2023
The Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS) of the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw invites contributions to the conference ‘Business-to-Business Data Sharing within the EU Digital Market’ which will be held in Warsaw (Poland) on 15...
D Daniel Sokol

Cártel de Euríbor: Plazo de prescripción aplicable a la acción de daños por infracción del derecho de la competencia 1 abril, 2023
Por Mercedes Agreda Auto del TJUE de 6 de marzo de 2023, asuntos acumulados C-198/22 y C-199/22)En respuesta a una cuestión prejudicial elevada por el Juzgado de lo Mercantil número 11 de Barcelona, el TJUE se ha pronunciado sobre diversas cuestiones relativas al plazo de prescripción de las acciones de daños por infracción del derecho de la competencia a ra […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
No es posible aumentar capital con cargo a reservas si en el balance figuran pérdidas 1 abril, 2023
Por Marta Soto-YarrituSe rechaza la inscripción de un aumento de capital con cargo a reservas por entender que, al existir pérdidas, dichas reservas no son plenamente disponibles.La DGSJFP confirma la calificación del registrador. Aunque en la LSC no exista un precepto que prohíba expresamente aprobar un aumento de capital con cargo a reservas si en el balan […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
El CMOF es un instrumento contractual que define la relación entre las partes, pero sin perjuicio de la sustantividad de cada contrato posterior 1 abril, 2023
Por Marta Soto-YarrituEs la Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo, Sala de lo Civil, núm. 322/2023, de 28 de febrero de 2023 En procedimiento sobre anulación de contratos de swap acordados dentro de un contrato marco CMOF, la demandante alega que todas las operaciones bajo el mismo forman una unidad negocial. Por tanto, el dies a quo para la caducidad de la acción […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL

Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Kazakhstan 5 enero, 2023
A year of establishing crucial goals and flourishing development The previous year was flourishing and fruitful for the development of competition law in Kazakhstan. According to the annual report of the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the “Agency”) on the state of competition and measures to limit... C […]
Konstantin Voropaev (Elbert, Nazaretsky, Rakov & Co)
On-platform Tying or Another Case of Leveraging – A Discussion on Facebook Marketplace 4 enero, 2023
Factual background Just before 2022 ended the Commission sent a statement of objections to Meta regarding the potential abusive behaviour of Facebook. According to the statement of objections, Facebook may be engaging in (i) abusive tying practices with regard to Facebook Marketplace as users (i.e. consumers) that log into Facebook and are automatically also […]
Daniel Mândrescu (Leiden University)
Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Iceland 3 enero, 2023
The year 2022 was an eventful year both for the Icelandic Competition Authority (“ICA”) and Icelandic Courts regarding competition enforcement and merger control. Iceland is a member of the EEA Agreement and Icelandic competition law therefore mainly mirrors EU competition law. Over the year several high-profile merger cases were amicably resolved following […]
Peter Dalmay (Jonsson & Hall Law Firm)

Bamboozled? 27 enero, 2023
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a... Continue reading The post Bamboozled? app […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
Listen…. 3 noviembre, 2022
Two items recently in the cartel news caught my eye because they have something in common: the chicken parts criminal price fixing prosecution failures and Donald C. Klawiter’s article calling for A Really New Leniency Program: A Positive, Cooperative, and Enthusiastic Partnership for Effective Antitrust Enforcement, Antitrust, Vol. 36, No. 3, Summer 2022. W […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
SUPREME COURT PREVIEW: Is the Supreme Court about to hand the Federal Trade Commission another enforcement setback? 1 octubre, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court this term will hear arguments in a case questioning whether respondents in a Federal Trade Commission proceeding can challenge the constitutionality of the FTC’s procedures and structure in federal district court while an administrative action is pending or whether they must wait for appellate court review of a Commission cease-and-des […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)

Competition Bureau Publishes Sweeping Recommendations for Canadian Competition Law Reform 28 marzo, 2023
March 28, 2023 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, has published a new Legal Update that discusses the Competition Bureau’s submission to the Canadian government in response to the government’s public consultation on amendments to the Competition Act. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update. ********** […] The post […]
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Common CASL (Canadian Anti-spam Law) Compliance Errors: Relying on Old Aggregated Marketing Lists 26 marzo, 2023
March 25, 2023 Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL) came into force in 2014. Since then, marketers and their advisors have been working to comply with what remains a complex law with outstanding uncertainties in some key areas. In providing CASL advice to clients since CASL came into force, and even over the past several years, […] The post Common C […]
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Tim Hortons Manages Public Relations After Prize Notification Glitch in Roll Up To Win Contest 9 marzo, 2023
March 9, 2023 On March 8, 2023, Toronto’s CityNews reported that some entrants into Tim Hortons (Tim’s) iconic Canadian Roll Up To Win contest were notified via Tim’s app that they had won a $10,000 American Express pre-paid card, when the notification was the result of a technical error (see: Roll Up To Win players […] The post Tim Hortons Manages Public Re […]
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ÚLTIMOS ENLACES DE ACTUALIDAD 24 febrero, 2023
27 de marzo de 2023: La Comisión Europea anuncia Directrices sobre abusos excluyentes16 de marzo de 2023: El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) resuelve una cuestión prejudicial confirmando el control ex post de una concentración carente de dimensión comunitaria15 de marzo de 2023: Nuevo número de "Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional", […]
Presupuestos de la estimación judicial de la indemnización de daños (STJUE de 16 de febrero de 2023) 23 febrero, 2023
Una de las cuestiones tratadas por el TJUE en su sentencia de 16 de febrero de 2023 (aquí) es la relativa a la facultad de los tribunales de estimar el importe de la reclamación de los daños derivados de infracciones de competencia, prevista en el artículo 17.1 de la Directiva 2014/104/UE y regulada en España en el artículo 76.2 de la Ley de Defensa de la Co […]
Los "acuerdos de sostenibilidad" ante el Derecho de la Competencia 24 octubre, 2022
La inclusión de la sostenibilidad como criterio europeo en la evaluación antitrust de los acuerdos entre empresas es un hecho que se va consolidando en las nuevas normas del Derecho de la Competencia, lo que confirma la importancia de este sector del Derecho para la transición ecológica. En este sentido, se observa con claridad la incidencia de los objetivos […]

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 position […]
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 extendi […]
Francisco Agüero

John Temple Lang 12 noviembre, 2022
John Temple Lang interrupted me during my first speaking engagement on behalf of the Commission. I was at an IBA conference in Cannes, presenting a draft notice on antitrust and telecoms which I’d been mostly responsible for writing. This was in the late 90s when telecoms work was probably at its height. I […]
Kevin Coates
EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results 29 julio, 2021
Interesting that while the European Parliament is processing over 1000 proposed amendments to the DMA, the controversial issue of self-preferencing now seems to be a consumer protection issue and not just an antitrust one (via Reuters): Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and […]
Kevin Coates
Google Italy, refusal to supply decision 13 mayo, 2021
The Italian competition authority’s decision into Google’s refusal to allow interoperability between Android and a third party app is published here. Simonetta Vezzosa (@wavesblog) has done a mammoth twitter thread, translating key parts, and pausing only for occasional injections of espresso. For an uncorrected full English machine translation courtesy of D […]
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 Regulaçao na América Latina

Mes: septiembre 2012

New Brazilian Antitrust Law to increase sanctions for cartel and to clarify the reach of leniency immunity

Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in Mexico