Julián Peña

Practice Areas

Mr. Peña is the head of Allende & Brea’s Antitrust/Competition, International Trade Law and Dumping department.

Career

Julián joined Allende & Brea in 2004 and has been the partner in charge of the firm’s antitrust department since 2007. Prior to joining Allende & Brea, Julián worked at the Ministry of Economy of Argentina advising different ministers and secretaries and working at the National Commission for the Defense of Competition.

His practice focuses on Antitrust and Competition law issues, including merger control proceedings, anticompetitive practices investigations and compliance work having been involved in many of the most relevant cases in Argentina. He has also been very active representing clients in antidumping and countervailing duties investigations both in Argentina and abroad.

He is currently a professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella’s Masters on Law and Economics and has been a visiting professor at the University of Florida and a professor at the Graduate Program of Universidad de Buenos Aires, among others. Julián has published three books and many articles and given numerous conferences around the world on competition law.

Julian has been recognized as one of the leading Argentine antitrust lawyers by Global Competition Review, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Euromoney’s Expert Guides, Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA), Expert Guide’s Best of the Best in Latin America and Latin Lawyer 250, among other publications. Winner of the “Client Choice Awards 2018” in the Antitrust category (Argentina) and twice selected by Global Competition Review as one of the best 40 antitrust lawyers in the world under the age of 40.

Personal

He graduated from the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1995. He is Professor at Universidad Di Tella’s Masters in Law and Economics. Previously was a Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and was Visiting Professor at the University of Florida in 2009. He has published books, papers and columns, and has lectured on antitrust and trade issues at various universities and conferences in Argentina and abroad. Mr. Peña is founder and moderator of “ForoCompetencia” (www.ForoCompetencia.com), Vice-Chair of the Antitrust Section of the International Bar Association; a member of the International Developments & Comments Task Force of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section; member of the Advisory Board of the Fordham Competition Law Institute, and an international advisor of the American Antitrust Institute.