Vial Larraín Femenías

A ‘leading firm for free competition with attentive and available partners’, Vial Larraín Femenías’ expertise ranges from high-profile cartel investigations to major merger control deals. The practice routinely liaises with Chile’s National Economic Prosecutor’s (FNE) office on competition law areas, such as leniency and out-of-court agreements; and in Chilean Competition Court (TDLC) proceedings, the team’s track record includes cartel investigations and complex merger control enforcement actions. Examples include assisting Linde Gas Chile (Linde) with an indictment filed by the FNE before the TDLC, which alleged that Indura, Linde and three individuals participated in a market-sharing cartel; and acting for the Walt Disney Company and Twenty-First Century Fox in a FNE-filed indictment against The Walt Disney Company and TWDC Enterprises for non-compliance with merger conditions and submission of false information. A former competition practice head and partner at Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría, Ignacio Larraín advises on potential cartels, abuses of dominant positions, merger control procedures, and contentious and non-contentious proceedings before the TDLC and Supreme Court, along with FNE anti-competitive behaviour investigations and implementing compliance programmes. Providing key support, director of the firm’s competition law team, Catalina Montero, is particularly focused on competition compliance matters; while associate Camilo Larraín S assists with cartel cases, merger transactions and sensitive investigations.