This article explores the subject of merger operations, specifically, on digital platforms. Thus, it analyzes the possible risks of these and the challenges that antitrust agencies must face when analyzing them. In this way, the authors highlight various characteristics of this market such as its dynamism and unpredictability, which allows it to ad...
This document analyses the disenchantment and failure of the Paraguayan Competition Act, Law 4956, after seven years since it came to effect. In this article, the author studies the Competition Act, its history, as well as the Competition Authority –CONACOM–, its structure, and resolutions. Aditionally, she presents the conclusions and recommendati...
Law 31112 contemplates the creation of an unprecedented mandatory preventive merger control in Peru, which will come into force within 15 days after the publication of the adaptation that Indecopi must elaborate. The institutional design of the Peruvian merger control system has several similarities with the Chilean system, which was implemented th...
COVID-19 has undoubtedly generated a business crisis that will not be easy to resolve. In this context, the failing firm defense becomes especially relevant, having been expressly introduced for a few months in Peruvian legislation on the occasion of the pandemic through Legislative Decree 1510, in order for the competition agency to take this aspe...
Cooperation agreements and mergers and acquisitions are frequent operations that enable the achievement of efficiencies. However, the resulting increase in market concentration could lead to a reduction (or elimination) of competitive pressures, among other aspects. For this reason, it is necessary for the competition authorities to carry out a tho...
The Forth Railway Package approved in 2016 in order to remove remaining obstacles to complete the Single European Rail Area aims, inter alia, to boost competition by adapting the system of governance between railway infrastructure managers and service operators. However, in this respect, reality shows us a scenario away from those objectives and do...
