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The highly talented legal team at the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce is formed by two experienced lawyers who hold the position of technical liaisons for the organisation. This promotes regulatory compliance and economic competition and advises different stakeholders in the hydrocarbons sector. Led by Jesús Esteban Revelo Barragán, the professionals in the team are expert lawyers in the antitrust area, and have extensive experience in competition law. Showing development, the most important recent change for the legal team has been having to change its traditional desk in an office in the city of Bogota, through the multiple scenarios and public to which the antitrust lawyers are usually directed. In the second half of 2017, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, through an agreement signed with the National Hydrocarbons Agency, joined the Territorial Hydrocarbons Strategy with the purpose of contributing its technical knowledge and its vocation of service. This move also had the purpose of addressing one of the main lines of social conflict in the hydrocarbon sector, related to the contracting of goods and services. Revelo explains that ‘to build this culture of legality, the legal team has carried out different activities to promote the regulations related to the protection of free economic competition, aimed at the different companies engaged in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons, as well as their contractors and the other interest groups’.