DOJ and US FTC sign Antitrust Co-operation Agreement with Chile | Practical Law
On 31 March 2011, Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), together with Felipe Irarrazabal, Chile's National Economic Prosecutor signed an Agreement on Antitrust Cooperation between the US and Chilean antitrust agencies. The agreement will enable the antitrust agencies in the US and Chile to improve their law enforcement relationship, providing for co-operation and co-ordination, conflict avoidance and confidentiality between the two countries.