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Tomás Appelgren: Partner

His practice focuses on antitrust and regulation, advising domestic and foreign clients in various investigations of the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (“FNE”), as well as in contentious and non-contentious proceedings before the Court for the Defense of Free Competition (“TDLC”). He also has experience in corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he worked as an associate in the Antitrust and Regulation group at Carey Law Firm.

Email: tappelgren@estudiolizana.cl

Cell: +569 7497 75555

  • Mastercard International in the procedure for the issuance of general instructions initiated by the TDLC to regulate the conditions of competition in the card payment market in Chile.
  • Mastercard International in the litigation proceedings initiated by PayU Chile, Dlocal Chile, Paygol and PPRO against Mastercard, Transbank and Klap before the TDLC for alleged anticompetitive conduct in the payment card market.
  • Kantar Ibope Media Chile in the consultation procedure initiated by Exacta Digital Media Research SpA before the TDLC to determine whether the horizontal agreement consisting in the joint contracting of television content audience measurement services, as well as the request for proposals mechanism implemented for such purpose, may infringe free competition.
  • Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI) in the lawsuit filed before the TDLC by the cryptocurrency brokerage platforms Buda.com and CryptoMKT against Bci and nine other Chilean banks, for alleged abuse of collective dominant position as a result of the closure of their current accounts or refusal to open them.
  • Rigk Chile SpA in the request for a favorable report from the TDLC for the formation of “PROREP” (joint venture), the first collective system for the management of non-domestic waste only, created within the framework of Law 20.920, which establishes the Extended Producer Responsibility Regime.
  • Celeo Redes and APG Group in the mandatory merger control proceeding before the FNE, in connection with the acquisition of control of Colbún Transmisión by Alfa Desarrollo, an investment company indirectly owned by APG and Celeo.
  • Veolia Environnement S.A. in the merger control proceeding before the FNE in connection with the acquisition of control over Suez S.A., controller of Aguas Andinas, through a public offer.
  • Mastercard International in the consultation process before the TDLC initiated by Transbank related to the tariff system of the payment card acquiring market, in order to determine its compliance with the antitrust laws, after the TDLC prohibited an out-of-court settlement between the FNE and Transbank.
  • Algonquin Power Utilities in the mandatory merger control proceeding before the FNE in connection with the acquisition of a stake in Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios de Los Lagos (ESSAL) by Toesca Infraestructura II Fondo de Inversión.
  • IBM in the mandatory merger control proceeding before the FNE, in connection with the worldwide transaction relating to the acquisition of all the shares of Red Hat, a company active in the software market.
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  • Assistant of Economic Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (2013-2018).
  • Administrative Law Assistant, Universidad Católica de Chile (2016-2018).
  • Procurator of the Free Competition Group, Carey (2015-2017).
  • Assistant of Introduction to Economics, Universidad Católica de Chile (2014).
  • Collaborator in the elaboration of jurisprudence files of the Competence Center of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2022).
  • Course: Procedural tools for antitrust litigation, Universidad de Chile (2022).
  • Law, School of Law, Universidad Católica de Chile.
  • Exchange Program, Karl Ruprecht Universität Heidelberg, Germany (2016).
  • Diploma in Free Competition, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2020).
  • Chile (2019).
  • Spanish.
  • English.