Marianela Lopez-Galdos
Meta (Washington)
Public Policy Manager, Competition
Marianela López-Galdos joined Meta in November 2021. Previously she was Director of Competition & Regulatory Policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). Prior to joining CCIA, she was the Director for Research Projects in Competition Law and Policy at the George Washington Competition Law Center. Marianela has worked as an international comparative competition law and policy consultant for the Office of International Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C and the World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development Bank. She also practiced law as a competition associate at Hogan Lovells LLP both in the Brussels and Madrid offices. Marianela holds an LL.M. from Georgetown Law School, a Masters Degree in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, and a PhD in International Competition Law from George Washington Law School. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. William E. Kovacic.
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For tech-related innovation to drive the economy, both competition policy and sound antitrust enforcement play a crucial role in ensuring that competition exists across markets. Merger control, as part of the antitrust toolkit, remains a key element in ensuring that the economy remains dynamic. In fact, competition authorities around the world have well understood that vigorous antitrust enforcement is important to R&D intensive sectors like the tech industry. As such, tech-related mergers do not get a free pass under the various existing antitrust regimes.
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On 22 July 2013, the Competition Commission of Namibia prohibited the acquisition of Puma Pty Ltd’s Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) by Namox Pty Ltd for two main reasons : (i) the merger would have increased the concentration and consolidated the dominant position of the merged entity in the (...)
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The European Commission has opened an abuse of dominance investigation against Gazprom. The investigation deals with the natural gas markets of eight central and eastern European markets. The investigation is framed within the energy policy that the European Union is pursuing which focuses (...)
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The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined eleven cement companies for fixing prices, and for limiting and controlling the output in the cement markets. The CCI has imposed record fines amounting to RPS 60 billion (approximately EUR 836 million) on the cartelists. Economic evidence, (...)
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Portugal has adopted a New Competition Act that modernizes its competition regime by lining it up with the European Union (EU) regime. The New Act introduces various reforms, most notably : the modification of merger control thresholds, the refinement of the leniency program, the adoption of (...)
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On April 3 the Competition Commission of Pakistan published a landmark decision imposing fines to members participating on a switchgear and transformer distribution market cartel, upon a leniency application submitted by Siemens. The decision represents a stepping-stone within the Pakistani (...)
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On 9 March 2012, the South African Competition Appeal Court upheld the Competition Tribunal’s decision to clear the Walmart/Massmart merger conditioned to several obligations that consider public interest needs. The South African Court concluded, after several months of dispute and business (...)
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On 1 June 2011, the merger control provisions of the Indian Competition Act of 2002 entered into force. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has had the opportunity to review various transactions since then. However, eight months after the initial implementation of the merger control (...)
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On 26 January, 2012 upon recommendation of Argentina’s National Competition Commission (ANCC), the Ministry of Economics & Finance ordered the 5 major oil & gas corporations -namely YPF (participated by Repsol YPF), Shell, Esso (Exxon Mobile), Petrobras and Oil- active in the Argentine (...)
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The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) as established in the Egyptian Competition Act approved in 2005, lacked of autonomous decision-making powers relating to the possibility to settle or litigate antitrust related cases. As of December 2011, the veto power that the Competition Law granted (...)
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