The experience of FERRERE’s Antitrust practice includes company mergers and acquisitions, distribution agreements, exclusive concessions, reseller sales conditions, dominant positions acquired via different mechanisms, interaction between practices in adjacent markets, disputes on relevant market definitions, commercial and marketing practices, joint ventures, and, in general, business practices impacting on competitive processes. It also represents claimant and respondent clients in cases of anti-competitive practices, notices to the government in connection with economic concentration, regulatory processes, and litigations at civil and administrative claims courts. This practice group’s experience includes actions before the Antitrust Commission; URSEC, the telecom regulator; URSEA, the energy and water regulator; and also the Central Bank of Uruguay. The firm’s attorneys have long been involved in defining regulatory frameworks in connection with Antitrust rules.
FERRERE has been involved in the majority of important cases in Uruguay since approval of the 2007 Competition Protection Law. This is a result of the service it provides through the coordinated advice of professionals specializing in different disciplines, which is unique in Uruguay. The firm boasts attorneys who understand business dynamics and economists who understand the regulatory framework.
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