Spanish law firm Garrigues has hired Mario Ybar, former acting national economic prosecutor for the Chilean antitrust authority, to head its antitrust practice in Chile.

Ybar told Law.com that after 15 years in the public sector, he felt it was time to take on “new challenges”. He has spent his entire career at the antitrust body, where he helped craft a legal framework that allowed for more effective crackdowns on anti-competitive behaviour.