Cuatrecasas appoints Francisca Levin as partner
Cuatrecasas has strengthened its competition law practice with the addition of Francisca Levin (pictured) as a new partner in the Santiago office, to lead a practice that is in full development in the region and reinforce its team of nine partners and 28 lawyers.
“I think it is a very interesting professional challenge to help consolidate both the area of merger control and regulatory litigation, which Cuatrecasas has been developing since it opened in Chile,” said the new partner.
Cristián Conejero Roos, managing partner of the Santiago office, mentioned: “Francisca enjoys enormous recognition in the market as an expert in this area, and has past experience both in leading competition law firms and within the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office, where she led the Mergers and Concentrations Unit, which has gained special importance since the 2016 reform due to the preventive and mandatory control regime imposed by law”.
Francisca has 14 years of experience specialising in the area of Competition and Economic Regulation. Throughout her career, she has focused mainly on advising on merger control, preventive assessment of anti-competitive practices -abuse of dominant position, collusion, interlocking infringements or related to merger control systems-, defence, representation, design of legal strategies and litigation in competition matters before the specialised competition court in Chile and the Supreme Court. Simultaneously, she teaches in several postgraduate courses on Competition Law at universities such as Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez – UAI.
She holds a Law Degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Master’s Degree in Competition from King’s College London Law School in the United Kingdom, and an MSc in Regulatory Science, specialising in Utilities Regulation, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her academic specialisation has allowed her to develop significant expertise in the area of the confluence of competition and economic regulation, especially in TMT and aviation regulation, digital markets and energy, as well as in assessing the competitive impact of sectoral regulations.
Since 2019, Francisca has been working as head of Mergers at the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE, Fiscalía Nacional Económica), where she has been in charge of the analysis of almost 200 merger transactions that were notified to such institution, leading the regulatory modifications in the area (new merger notification regulation) and soft law (new horizontal merger analysis guide), and representing it in all related litigation before the TDLC and Supreme Court. She has also previously worked as an associate in firms such as Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos and Carey.
