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Sofía O´Ryan

Sofía O'Ryan

Counsel
Sofia O'Ryan is able to propose strategies and understand problems on a deep level. She has great willingness to learn how our business works and accompany us day-to-day.
Chambers Latin America, (2025)
About

Sofía O'Ryan focuses her professional practice on competition/antitrust and consumer law.

In competition/antitrust, she advises on merger control procedures, unilateral conduct, and cartels in investigations before the National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE) and proceedings before the Tribunal for the Defense of Competition.

In addition, she advises on the design and implementation of commercial policies consistent with each client's strategic goals and current rules, as well as on the development of compliance programs and internal investigations to timely prevent and detect potentially risky behaviors, assisting clients in the definition of the most appropriate solutions.

Sofía regularly advises clients on competition matters in day-to-day business, focusing on potential abuses of a dominant position in commercial practices and policies. She has assisted in collaboration between competitors, exclusivity agreements, and the use of competitor information, among others, to clients in various industries such as technology, industrial and life sciences.

She also advises on consumer protection in proceedings before the National Consumer Service (SERNAC), civil and specialized courts (CONAR) on advertising regulation, including false or misleading advertising, unethical practices, and other practices that may affect consumers.

Bar AdmissionsChile, 2014

EXPERIENCE

Antitrust
  • Uber Eats during the investigation initiated by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) in 2021 regarding vertical restraints observed in agreements between digital platforms (Rappi, Pedidos Ya and Uber Eats) and the associated restaurants
  • Santa María Investments in selling its participation in the information security company Neosecure, with a presence in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, and Brazil, to the Brazilian fund Patria
    • Advised the client on terminating the shareholders' agreement and future obligations with The Rohatyn Group, which also sold its participation in Neosecure
  • Uber in its defense before the antitrust court in a lawsuit filed by a union of taxi drivers against the clients and other ridesharing app firms
  • A hospitality platform in the context of a market study on accommodation platforms conducted by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office
  •  A pharmaceutical company throughout the mandatory notification process before the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office regarding the context of the acquisition by an investment company
  • A global health services provider and insurer in antitrust matters regarding the need to notify the competition authorities (FNE) about the sale of 100% of its equity
  • An international pharmaceutical company in executing a training program directed to an audience of more than 100 representatives from the company’s sales force in antitrust matters
    • Reviewed commercial practices across multiple jurisdictions in Latin America, identified risks in competition matters and issued recommendations to mitigate them
Consumer Protection/Advertising
  • L'Oréal in the defense against a class action presented by an association of consumers (CONADECUS) before the Civil Tribunal
  • A global, leading cosmetic and beauty company in a claim against a company specializing in personal care products in the case followed before the National Board of Ethics on Advertisement (CONAR)
  • Cornershop in the defense against a claim presented by SERNAC before the Local Tribunal (local police court)
  • A leading mobility company with response to a Request for Information from the Chilean National Consumer Protection Service (SERNAC) regarding internal policies and data protection
    • Prepared and designed a response to a highly sensitive request for information issued by the Chilean Consumer Protection Agency
  • A multi-national consumer goods and personal care corporation in submitting a complaint to obtain a competitor's cease-and-desist of a comparative marketing campaign that would damage the client's reputation and overall market performance
  • A worldwide leading cosmetic and beauty company in its defense before the National Board of Ethics on Advertisement (CONAR) in which another cosmetic company requested the modification of our client's packaging due to alleged unethical advertising, considering that the information included in the product's packaging is indeed advertising
  • An advertising agency with operations in the United States, in the review and preparation of the terms and conditions of a sweepstakes to be held in different states of the United States and the preparation of the contract to be signed with the eventual winners of the contest
  • An entertainment company with the potential effects that the shutdown of a platform may have
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Education

    Awards

    Chambers Latin America Guide

    • Up and Coming, Competition and Antitrust, 2025

    Legal 500 Latin America

    • Leading Associate, Competition and Antitrust, 2022-2025
    Additional Recognitions
    • Recommended, Global Competition Review 100, 2025
    • Highly Recommended, Antitrust and Competition, Latin Lawyer 250, 2023-2025
    • Competition and Antitrust, Best Lawyers, 2023-2024
    • Highly Recommended, Competition and Antitrust: Antitrust & Merger Control, Leaders League, 2021-2024
    • Recommended, Competition and Antitrust: Antitrust, Leaders League, 2020-2024

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