On August 18, 2020, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio - “SIC”) issued the External Notice 008 of 2020, to instruct the people and companies who collect personal data to comply with the biosafety protocols and other measures adopted by...
Today, lawyer Ana María Mesa joined Avante Abogados' team. Mrs. Mesa received her degree in law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) and was awarded with the San Pedro Claver Cross for having excelled in the performance of her duties, human qualities and effective commitment...
María Angélica de la Hoz, who worked as an associate consultant at Avante Abogados since late 2019, will start working as Assistant Contracts Officer at the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)- of the European Space Agency located in the Netherlands. In that...
The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana team has just won the International Moot Court on Competition Law (E-Moot 2020) organized by Universidad del Pacífico and the law firm Bullard Falla Ezcurra + in Lima, Peru. This year, 160 students in 31 teams from Spain and Latin America...
On May 21st, our partner Juan David Gutiérrez participated in the "Compliance in times of Coronavirus. A vision from Latin America" webinar organized by the University of El Salvador (Argentina). The full video of the session is available here. The topic that Juan David addressed in...
By Juan David Gutiérrez y Fery Cure Due to the sanitary emergency caused by COVID-19, companies and government organizations must follow strict biosecurity protocols issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection. These protocols create responsibilities for employers, contractors, employees and contractees, even if the last two...
By Juan David Gutiérrez and Fery Cure On May 11th of 2020, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) issued Resolutions 20490 and 20476 of 2020 which, respectively, established rules relative to collaboration agreements between competitors related to the COVID-19 emergency, and resumed the terms of the merger control procedures...
Much has been said in the last days about the value, role and boundaries of antitrust law in the context of the COVID-19’s sanitary emergency. At the center of this discussion is the possibility and need to increase the flexibility of the the enforcement of...
by Carlos Esguerra y Fery Cure Prior to the world focusing 100% of its attention on the challenge of COVID-19, Colombia was in the middle of a big debate about the need of regulating digital platforms such as Uber, Rappi and Airbnb. Given the circumstances, this debate...
By Juan David Gutiérrez y Fery Daniel Cure The Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), Colombia’s data protection agency, has increased its enforcment activities related to privacy rules in the conext of e-commerce. Two recent cases decided by the SIC (Res. 74828 and 76538 of 2019) and the issuance of the...