Contreras Velozo

Contreras Velozo houses ‘a first-class team that is highly successful in free competition’. The seven-strong competition and regulation department is well known for its antitrust litigation credentials, which encompass collusion and abuse of dominance investigations, as well as non-contentious proceedings, follow-on damages litigation, and strategic business advice. The team is additionally experienced in merger control issues, its track record covering the banking, food, telecoms, healthcare, ports and construction sectors. The practice also acts for corporations and governmental bodies that are active in the energy, gas, transport, gambling and public infrastructure industries. The group is co-led by Javier Velozo, a former TDLC judge with ’recognised expertise in free competition issues’, whose experience includes successfully representing significant Chilean and international corporations (and government bodies) in high-stakes TDLC cases and FNE investigations; and ‘excellent lawyer’ Pablo Pardo, an antitrust and regulated markets practitioner, whose broad practice encompasses competition risk management, litigation and merger control. In the firm’s associate team, Francisca Lobos is a former FNE anti-cartel division lawyer, who advises on the gamut of competition law work, particularly investigations before the FNE. Notable growth for the practice includes the February 2024 return of María De Los Ángeles Figueroa from the FNE as a senior associate.