Publications - EU and Antitrust Law
This edition updates and compares the competition regimes of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru, incorporating regulatory developments and recent practices through March 2026.
In Colombia, companies must comply with certain corporate, tax and labour obligations during the year. In this document we highlight the main obligations to be taken into account in the first half of 2026.
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court recognizes that competition authorities are entitled to set up, in their sanctioning decisions, the duration and scope of the debarment from contracting with the public sector, thereby confirming the recent…
The National Antitrust Commission (CNA) implemented a new tariff scheme for the procedure to analyze concentrations in Mexico, replacing the traditional fixed quota and establishing a tiered fee system based on the maximum value of the reviewed…
With the approval of this reform to the Federal Economic Competition Law, Mexico moves toward a profound transformation of its legal framework in this area. This new stage aims to align secondary legislation with recent constitutional changes,…
This second edition presents, in an organized and didactic manner, the main characteristics of the antitrust regimes of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.
In a relevant judgment on the application of competition law at the European level, the CJEU confirms that, in competition matters, the "presumption of decisive influence" of a parent company over its subsidiary in competition matters allows,…
In a recent judgment, the CJEU establishes that a national rule that prevents those damaged by an antitrust infringement from assigning their right to compensation would be contrary to Articles 101 of the TFEU and 47 of the Charter of Rights of the…
Foreign investments in Spain carried out by residents of the European Union and the Spanish Free Trade Association will continue to be subject to the prior authorization regime established in Article 7 bis of Law 19/2003.
Garrigues and the Official Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Peru (COCEP) have published a new report analyzing the first three years of the merger control regime for business transactions in Peru.
A judgment of the CJEU concludes that, in claims for damages caused by infringement of competition law, it is not possible to rely on the principle of economic unity to interpret the forum of the "place where the harmful event occurred" as being the…
In a new batch of judgments, the High Court confirms its doctrine in relation to the judicial estimation of the damage in this type of claims, extending it now to a series of cases which were accompanied by a specific expert report which, although…