##  [David Toro Ochoa](/en_GB/team/david-toro-ochoa) 

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 David Toro Ochoa Principal associate 

 <david.toro@garrigues.com> - [Bogota](/en_GB/office/bogota)+57 601 326 69 99





 

 

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David is a principal associate at Garrigues since 2023, forming part of the Administrative Law team in the Bogotá office. He has more than 10 years of experience in consulting and litigation about Competition Law, Consumer ProtectionLaw, Economic Regulation, Privacy Law, Law and Economics, Transportation Law, Energy Law and Telecommunications Law. In addition, he works as an undergraduate and graduate professor at the schools of Law and Economics of the Externado de Colombia University.

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More than 10 years of experience advising and representing Colombian and international companies in (i) administrative investigations for violation of competition, consumer, privacy and metrology and technical regulations, (ii) merger control notifications; (iii) unfair competition processes; (iv) consumer protection actions; (v) public actions; (vi) commercial arbitrations; (vii) advisory services and administrative procedures regarding the regulation of transportation, energy, and telecommunications, among other activities related to economic law.

 

 

 

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LLB and Master of Laws (LLM) with an emphasis in Economic Law from the Externado de Colombia University. Master of Laws (LL.M.) with a specialization certificate in Business Law from the University of California - Berkeley.

 

 

 

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- Competition Law (Law and Economics, undergraduate).
- International negotiation techniques (Law, undergraduate).
- Law and Economics (Finance and International Relations, undergraduate).
- Economic Analysis of Law: mathematical applications (Law, graduate).
- International aspects of Competition and Consumer Law (Law, graduate).
- Regulation of energy markets: Competition (Law, graduate).











 

 

 

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- TORO, David. “Las medidas cautelares en los procesos de competencia desleal por violación de normas: un estudio comparado desde el análisis económico del derecho”. En: CONTEXTO – Revista de Derecho y Economía No 49 Primer semestre 2018. Universidad Externado de Colombia. Bogotá D.C.: 2018.
- TORO, David. “Efectos de la aplicación de la regla per se y regla de la razón en Colombia”. En: ¿Regla per se y regla de la razón? Interpretación de las normas de competencia. Universidad Externado de Colombia. Bogotá D.C.: 2018.
- Toro Ochoa, D., Serrano Pinilla, F. y Rubio Escobar, J. 2021. Terminación por garantías en los procedimientos administrativos sancionatorios de prácticas comerciales restrictivas. Con-texto. 54 (ene. 2021), 99-112.
- TORO, David; LÓPEZ, Juan Sebastián; BALLEN, Juan Sebastián. “La in-dependencia judicial y su posible medición: breve aplicación al caso de la Corte Constitucional Colombiana”. In: CONTEXTO – Revista de Derecho y Economía Nº 27 Primer Cuatrimestre 2009. Universidad Externado de Colombia. Bogotá D.C.: 2009.

 

 

 







 

 



 

 

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