Pablo is currently a Case Handler at the European Commission. Prior he was an Associate with the Madrid team, specialized on advising companies in all kind of Spanish and EU competition law matters, including advice on merger control and antitrust issues (defending clients in investigations by national and European authorities in relation to cartels and abuse of dominance). He has also advised clients in relation to general matters of EU law and unfair competition issues. Clients include companies in the service, industry and financial sectors. He regularly assists corporate colleagues with competition law issues arising from cross-border transactions. Pablo studied Law & Business at University of Seville (Spain). After graduating, he obtained two Masters degrees, one in EU Law at the University of Seville and another one in Competition Law at King’s College London.
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The Spanish competition authority ("CNMC") has fined six companies and five directors participating in three cartels, breaching EU and Spanish antitrust rules by fixing prices and other commercial conditions, sharing customers and exchanging commercially sensitive information for almost 20 (...)
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In March 2020, the Spanish Government introduced a screening mechanism for certain foreign direct investments in Spain (the "Spanish FDI Regime"), which requires prior administrative authorisation from the Council of Ministers of investments made by non-EU/EFTA investors in Spanish companies (...)
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In 2015, the Spanish Competition Authority ("CNMC") sanctioned a cartel of Land Rover dealers, and found that a consultancy firm, ANT Servicalidad, was also liable for the conduct as it acted as a facilitator of the cartel. In a recent judgment, the Spanish High Court rejected the appeal (...)
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Spanish authority publishes compliance guidance The Spanish competition authority ("CNMC") has published a "Guide on Regulatory Compliance Programmes in Relation to Competition Law" (the "Compliance Guide") which provides guidance on the circumstances in which internal compliance programmes (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority ("CNMC") has fined Schneider Electric Spain ("Schneider"), Adasa Sistemas ("Adasa") and DTN Services and Systems Spain ("DTN") a total of EUR 610,000 for organising a bid rigging cartel in the market for the supply and maintenance of weather radars tendered by (...)
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The CNMC has accepted commitments offered by Adidas Spain ("Adidas") and closed the investigation that had been initiated in November 2018, following a complaint lodged by BCINCOPE (an Adidas franchisee), for an alleged infringement of articles 1 SCA and 101 TFEU in the Spanish retail market (...)
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On 13 November 2019, the Spanish Competition Authority ("CNMC") announced that it had fined Mediaset and Atresmedia €77.1 million in total for antitrust practices in the marketing of television advertising. Both companies have been required to cease their behaviour and adapt their commercial and (...)
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