Carolina Jara is an associate in the Zurich office of Lenz & Staehelin and focuses on competition law, EU law and regulated areas. Previously, Ms. Ronda was an associate at Freshfields. Ms. Ronda specialises on EU and Spanish antitrust law, with a particular focus on energy regulatory matters and has experience in national and multi-jurisdictional corporate transactions, joint ventures and compliance programmes. Carolina speaks fluent English, German and Italian and has a good working knowledge of Catalan. She has a Law Degree from the Universidad de Alicante, a LLM from the University of Cologne (specialising in German and European Competition Law) and a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. During the preparation of her thesis on merger control law in the EU energy sector, Carolina completed internships in the antitrust department of the multi-utility company RWE as well as in the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt).
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Introduction On 18 October 2007 the Spanish competition authority, Comisión Nacional de Competencia (CNC), sanctioned four saving banks (cajas de ahorro) with a total fine of € 24 million for participating in a cartel involved in sharing markets and coordinating commercial conditions. The four (...)
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On 16 May 2007 National Express Group PLC (NEG), the first regular bus transport service provider in Spain, notified the former Spanish first-tier competition authority (Servicio de Defensa de la Competencia, SDC) of the acquisition of control over Continental Auto SLU (Continental Auto), the (...)
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