FerradaNehme

According to some clients, FerradaNehme is ‘the best office in Chile for free competition without a doubt’. The 22-strong competition and regulation practice handles a large number of significant competition law cases in Chile, including both contentious and non-contentious proceedings. Its representative expertise covers mergers, collusion allegations, competition compliance, litigation involving the FNE, and cases before Chile’s TDLC. Clients additionally benefit from the firm’s sector expertise in air transportation, retail, telecoms, mining, banking, energy, ports, railways and electricity, along with oil and gas, pensions, casinos, health insurance and software. The practice is co-led by longstanding competition and regulatory law practitioner Nicole Nehme, an ’exceptional lawyer’ who has enviable experience in litigating TDLC cases; Diego Hernández, whose expertise encompasses antitrust compliance programmes, representing clients in TDLC proceedings and assisting with FNE matters (particularly merger control work and cartel and abuse of dominant position investigations); Benjamín Mordoj, a well-known adviser on preventive work; and Mabel Ahumada, who primarily focuses on mergers, FNE investigations, compliance and preventive matters. At director level, Catalina Íñiguez, Beatriz Hidalgo, Josefina Campos and Raffaela Corte are also key team members, while counsel Sebastián Dufeu currently leads the firm’s telecoms-related investigations' practice, that handles cases brought before the TDLC and FNE.