Mr Francisco Bórquez > Barros & Errázuriz > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

‘Positioning itself as a market leader due to its extensive track record and successful results’, Barros & Errázuriz‘s competition and antitrust team has longstanding involvement in high-stakes TDLC cases. The seven-strong department (including three partners) is also consistently mandated by national and international clients to assist with investigations before the FNE; and in relation to merger control matters, the team is notably specialised in concentration notifications. The team’s competition work further includes advice to companies on preventing anti-competitive conduct, such assistance encompassing commercial policy reviews, along with the establishment of business protocols and compliance programmes. It additionally advises trade associations on competition issues. The team is co-led by litigation and arbitration specialist Luis Eduardo Toro; merger control practice head Francisco Bórquez, who ‘has outstanding experience in antitrust issues’, and whose workload includes day-to-day competition advice, including compliance and administrative and judicial procedures before the FNE and TDLC; and José Luis Corvalán, whose expertise covers both litigation and competition and antitrust law. At associate level, senior Catalina Villalobos – an adviser on mergers, litigation and anti-competitive practices – is a former legal deputy at the FNE’s mergers division; and the practices of both Josefina Poblete and Virginia González focus on mergers and anti-competitive conduct.