Jaime Folguera is a partner in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez. He joined the firm as a partner in 1992, having previously advised on EU legal affairs for Spanish government agencies. He currently heads the Competition Law Department of Uría Menéndez.

His practice focuses on EU and Spanish competition law. He is regularly asked to advise on EU and Spanish mergers in many different sectors (such as banking and insurance, energy, telecommunications, defence and civil and military aviation or pharmaceuticals).

Jaime is often consulted on cases related to individual or collective abuse of a dominant position and intervenes on a regular basis in proceedings for infringements of Article 82 of the EU Treaty and Article 6 of the Spanish Law 16/1989 for the Defence of Competition.

Jaime advises clients and files notifications of joint ventures and strategic alliances or similar cooperation agreements with the EU Commission or the Spanish Antitrust Authorities.

His team also advises on cases related to price fixing, market- or client-sharing or other horizontal restrictions between competitors and files notifications for negative clearance or individual exemption/ authorisation for horizontal and vertical agreements.

He also represents clients in proceedings.

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