Baker McKenzie Chile
Baker McKenzie Chile's nine-strong Santiago antitrust practice is best known for multijurisdictional merger-control issues, global cartels, antitrust compliance, and competition litigation. Acting across the spectrum of antitrust work, the group also assists with compliance and internal investigations. Clients additionally benefit from the team’s leveraging of the firm’s global competition practice, which facilitates access to approximately 320 lawyers across 47 jurisdictions. The group is led by longstanding antitrust expert Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés, whose track record includes major victories before both the Competition Tribunal and the Supreme Court; with additional, key, partner-level support provided by fintech and TMT sector specialist Diego Ferrada and litigator Ignacio Naudon. Associate Juan Ignacio Donoso is a former FNE antitrust division deputy-head, whose practice covers merger-control proceedings, compliance, and abuse-of-dominance and cartel investigations.
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Key clients
- HSBC Bank
- Minera Altos Punitaqui
- HP
- Motorola
- Cencosud
- Cargill
- Knight Therapeutics
- Viña Concha y Toro
- Sumitomo Chemicals
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Grupo Security
- Enagás
- MSD
- General Electric
- Aguas Antofagasta
- Black & Decker
- NYK
- Daimler
- Essity
- Weir
- Summerland Varieties
- Continental
- MSD
Work highlights
- Representing Cencosud in follow-on actions (submitted before the Competition Tribunal by consumer association Agrecu and the Chilean Consumer Service) for compensation for damage caused by a hub-and-spoke cartel.
- Representing tissue company Essity in follow-on actions submitted by a consumer association (Conadecus) and the Chilean Consumer Service, which are seeking compensation for damages arising from a cartel in the tissue sector.
- Representing Motorola in an unfair business complaint filed against Pegasus (representative of Hytera in Chile) and a former Motorola employee, who currently works at Pegasus.
Lawyers
Rising stars
Leading individuals
![Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés](/cdn-cgi/image/width=256/https://www.legal500.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/03/Rodrigo-Diaz-de-Valdes.jpg)
Local Parter. Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés heads the Dispute Resolution and Antitrust practice groups of Baker McKenzie's Santiago office.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés