The recent tax reform, enacted by the President of the Republic of Colombia on 27 December, 2019, will have an important effect for companies that intend to inform transactions through merger control procedures as of this year. Article 152 of Law 2010 of 2019 establishes...
The Superintendent of Industry and Commerce issued Resolution No. 76544 of 27 December, 2019, through which it fixed the operating income and total assets that must be considered to inform or notify transactions through merger control procedures in 2020. As with the resolution that fixed...
Credit bureaus receive credit, financial, commercial and services personal data from different sources. These sources, in turn, collect such personal data from the information holders – the data subjects. Bureaus make personal information on data subjects – including records and antecedents – available for its...
The activities of the International Competition Network’s (ICN) annual conference will begin tonight in the city of Cartagena. The event is organized this year by the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC), which will be hosting more than 500 attendants from all over the world....
Last week I had the honor of participating in a panel of the Antitrust in the Americas 2019 conference, organized by the American Bar Association in Buenos Aires. The panel was about due process and the role of judges in Competition Law. I had the...
Our partner Juan David Gutiérrez participated as a panelist in the “Competition Law in Latin America: challenges and recent developments” conference, which was organized by the not-for-profit association for Research on Law and Corporations “Fundación para la Investigación sobre el Derecho y la Empresa” (FIDE). The...
Within the last years, the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) has been focused on investigating anti-competitive practices in the markets for public procurement. Since the creation of the “Specialized Working Group against Bid Rigging in Public Procurement”, the Division for the Protection of Competition...
During 2011 and 2012, Juan David Gutiérrez led the Technical Secretariat of the Review Commission for the draft bill of the Colombian General Code of Process with Nicolás Pájaro. As a counselor to the Ministry of Justice and after that, as the Director of Formal and...
In June, 2018, Carlos Esguerra made a presentation, within the context of the meetings of CEDEC, on the main developments in bid rigging in public procurement. The presentation was titled: “The Specialized Working Group against Bid Rigging in Public Procurement, a year later”. Below we...
Colombia is the country in Latin America with the highest amount of precedent on consciously parallel anti-competitive practices. This is a key topic of Colombian Competition Laws and it is still a topic that the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) devotes particular attention to. The...