Sherman Act – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

Do Antitrust Disruptors Make Good Reformers? 24 marzo, 2023
Do Antitrust Disruptors Make Good Reformers? Barak Orbach University of Arizona Abstract Antitrust law is in the early phase of a badly needed correction. The prior correction—commonly known as the Chicago Revolution—established policy distortions and a need for a “Post-Chicago...
D Daniel Sokol
The Illinois Brick Damages Edifice: Demolition or Destruction? 23 marzo, 2023
The Illinois Brick Damages Edifice: Demolition or Destruction? Gregory K. Leonard Charles River Associates Abstract As typically calculated in U.S. “overcharge” cases under existing law, a plaintiff’s damages can diverge substantially from its economic losses. There are two primary reasons...
D Daniel Sokol
Lawful Cartels 22 marzo, 2023
Lawful Cartels Or Brook University of Leeds Abstract The prohibition on hard-core cartels unites competition law regimes across the globe. Nevertheless, not every agreement among competitors is unlawful. Rather, a wide array of acceptable cartel or cartel-like agreements are presumed...
D Daniel Sokol

La Dirección general sostiene que el registrador puede enjuiciar la validez del acuerdo social de aprobación de cuentas si le consta que se pidió asistencia de notario a la junta y no se le demuestra que asistiera 22 marzo, 2023
Es la Resolución de la Dirección General de Seguridad Jurídica y Fe Pública de 1 de marzo de 2023. Una salvajada. Aunque no consta que ningún socio impugnara los acuerdos; aunque se trataba, simplemente, del acuerdo de aprobación de cuentas, el Registro Mercantil declara por sí y ante sí la ineficacia de los acuerdos sociales adoptados por unos particulares […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
En el registro de la propiedad puede inscribirse un inmueble a favor de una sociedad extranjera sin necesidad de demostrar que esa sociedad extranjera no tiene una sucursal en España 22 marzo, 2023
Debe decidirse en este expediente si es o no inscribible una escritura de ampliación de capital en la que concurren las circunstancias siguientes: el día 31 de diciembre de 2021, se elevaron a público acuerdos de aumento de capital de la sociedad «Rima Hungary KFT», de nacionalidad húngara, en la que el ahora recurrente aporta para la ampliación una partici […]
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La coevolución del desarrollo de la cognición y la cooperación en los humanos 21 marzo, 2023
foto: Pedro FraileLa tesis de este trabajo es que capacidad cognitiva y cooperación coevolucionaron en los humanos y que la segunda no necesita de la primera si los miembros del grupo son parientes entre sí, porque la cooperación con los parientes se selecciona evolutivamente ya que se comparten genes con los parientes de forma que facilitar su supervivencia […]
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)

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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Canadian Competition Bureau Investigating Quebec Real Estate Board Over Control of MLS Listing Data 21 febrero, 2023
February 20, 2023 On February 20, 2023, the Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced that it had obtained a court order (presumably an order under section 11 of the Competition Act) in relation to potential abuse of dominance conduct engaged in by a Quebec real estate board (the Quebec Professional Association for Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB)). […] The […]
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Running “Closed Loop” (Non-Public or Internal Company) Promotional Contests/Sweepstakes in Canada 14 febrero, 2023
February 15, 2023 A promotional contest law question we commonly receive is whether Canadian contest/sweepstakes laws apply if a contest is only open to a company’s or other organization’s employees or personnel. These types of contests/sweepstakes are sometimes called “closed loop” contests or promotions because they are not open to the general public and o […]
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ÚLTIMOS ENLACES DE ACTUALIDAD 24 febrero, 2023
16 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", con artículos sobre competencia a texto completo y gratuito (cuestiones sobre vertica […]
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 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

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

Categoría: Sherman Act

Now at an UBER rocky antitrust court bench: a follow up on the UBER price-fixing case

Between an UBER Rock and an UBER Hard Place

Obamantitrust!: Retiro del informe sobre sobre Conducta Unilateral