Contreras Velozo

Contreras Velozo‘s seven-strong team is ’highly familiar with local competition laws, as well as the legislation of other countries and international jurisprudence’. The competition and regulation practice has significant experience in antitrust litigation practice, its expertise covering collusion, abuses of dominance, non-contentious proceedings, and follow-on damages litigation. The group is also sought out for its experience in merger control work in the telecoms, banking, food, ports, healthcare and construction sectors; and is regularly mandated by other law firms, as well as the Government, to prepare legal opinions either for court or internal purposes. Highlights include successfully assisting Marina del Sol, the operator of a gaming and entertainment company, with a gambling cartel investigation-related leniency programme procedure. Co-heading the department, Javier Velozo is a former Competition Tribunal (TDLC) judge, who acts for Chilean and international corporations, as well as government bodies, in TDLC cases and FNE-conducted investigations; and Pablo Pardo, who focuses on antitrust and regulated markets. Pardo’s competition law expertise encompasses competition-related risk management, litigation and merger control matters. Providing notable support at associate level, former FNE anti-cartel division lawyers Francisca Lobos and María De Los Ángeles Figueroa both assist with FNE investigation-related cases, non-contentious and contentious TDLC matters, and related civil lawsuits.