In comparison to the year prior, 2024 may have seemed a quiet time for Peruvian competition law, but it was not without important developments. Heralded worldwide as the “year of elections,” 2024 brought changes to the Peruvian competition agency (the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property, or INDECOPI,…

2023 was certainly an eventful year for competition law and policy in Peru. Its Competition Agency, the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI, after its Spanish acronym) was not immune from the instability of Peruvian politics. Two months after the failed coup d’état perpetrated by Pedro Castillo,…