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Ms Sofía O'Ryan

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)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’.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Compliance
- Data privacy
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity and hydrocarbons
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Labour and employment
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Tax
- Competition and antitrust
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Dispute resolution: arbitration