Ms Sofía O'Ryan > DLA Piper Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

DLA Piper Chile
El Golf 150
10th Floor
Las Condes
Chile

Work Department

Antitrust & Competition; Compliance & Investigations; Public Law

Position

Counsel

Career

Sofía O’Ryan concentrates her professional practice on competition law. In this context, she advises on matters related to merger control procedures, unilateral conducts and cartels, both in investigations before the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) and in proceedings before the Tribunal for the Defense of Competition.

Sofía advises and assists on the design and implementation of commercial policies consistent with the strategic objectives of each client and current regulations, as well as in the development of compliance programs and internal investigations for the timely prevention and detection of potentially risky behaviors, assisting clients in the definition of the most appropriate solutions.

Sofía regularly advises clients on competition matters in day-to-day business, with a focus on potential abuses of a dominant position in commercial practices and policies. She has assisted in collaboration between competitors, exclusivity agreements and the use of competitor information, among others.

Languages

Spanish; English

Education

Law, Universidad de Chile, 2011

Diploma in Regulation and Competition, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile, 2015

Master of Laws (LL.M), King’s College London, United Kingdom, 2017

Lawyer Rankings

Chile > Competition and antitrust

(Leading associates)

Sofía O’RyanDLA Piper Chile

Delivering ‘advice that is tailored to clients’ realities’, DLA Piper Chile‘s four-strong competition and antitrust practice routinely works alongside the firm’s corporate and M&A teams on both transactional and compliance matters. The group also assists with internal investigations, external procedures conducted by the FNE (and through the TDLC), and merger control analyses. The team is co-led by Felipe Bahamondez, who oversees the Santiago office’s strategy for antitrust cases; and counsel and antitrust specialist Sofia O’Ryan, who ‘has sophisticated knowledge of the Chilean free competition system’.