Garrigues

Garrigues’ competition team is ‘one of the best’, according to clients, due to its ’legal and market knowledge and its interest in understanding its clients’ needs’. The group is involved in a significant proportion of competition investigations in Colombia; notably, it is advising clients in four out of the ten new cases launched by the SIC during 2023. Other key areas of activity include merger control filings, competition compliance and competition litigation. Key name José Miguel De La Calle steers both the competition and the public law departments; he is currently representing Azul y Blanco Millonarios FC in an antitrust investigation conducted by the SIC into alleged anti-competitive activity in the football industry. The practice also draws on a strong second line of associates including new principal, David Toro, who joined in April 2023 from his own practice, Toro Solórzano Abogados; seniors Anamaría Rico (who ‘demonstrates optimal management of legal matters’), Julieth Sanclemente (who ’provides quick answers’) and Adolfo Enrique Gómez (who returned from study leave in August 2023); along with intermediate Daniel Fajardo Mendoza, who specialises in competition, litigation, data protection and consumer law.