Mr Julián Peña > Allende & Brea > BUENOS AIRES, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
Allende & Brea Offices
Maipú 1300, Piso 11, C1006ACT
Argentina
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Mr Julián Peña
Work Department
Antitrust/Competition, International Trade Law, Dumping
Position
Partner since 2006. He is the head of Antitrust Department.
Career
Mr. Peña joined Allende & Brea in 2004 and became partner in 2006. He was legal adviser to the Ministry of Economy between 1996 and 2004, having advised different Ministers and Secretaries of Trade. He has also worked at the Argentine Antitrust Commission from 1999, when the merger control regime was introduced until 2001. Previously, he was a stagiaire at the European Commission in Brussels in 1996.
Languages
He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Memberships
Peña is also officer of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Committee (co-editor of the Antitrust Committee’s Newsletter); a member of the International Task Force of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law; and an international advisor of the American Antitrust Institute. Mr. Peña is founder and moderator of “ForoCompetencia”, an e-group focused on competition issues with approximately 500 members from 25 countries, as well as organizing monthly meetings of members of the Argentine antitrust community.
Education
Universidad Católica Argentina, 1995.
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Competition and antitrust
(Hall of Fame)Allende & Brea is regularly called on by international corporations to advise on merger control matters, with its international presence boosted by leadership positions in the Antitrust Committee of the International Bar Association, the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and the American Antitrust Institute. The practice has an impressive track record in high-stakes cartel cases, handles vertical restraint and dominance matters, and advises clients on the design of distribution systems to comply with antitrust laws. One of Argentina’s foremost competition and antitrust lawyers Julián Peña
leads the team and is recognised for the depth of his expertise across all aspects of competition and antitrust law. Federico Rossi is the practice group’s other key name and handles merger control proceedings, cartel investigations, dominance cases and sectoral enquiries.