Free Competition. With the exception of Section 3 hereof, nothing in this Agreement is intended to prevent either LECG or PA from freely engaging in competitive business activities in the consulting business, including, without limitation, environmental consulting and litigation support.
Free Competition. Subject to Sections 7.10.1, (a) the Partners expressly recognize and agree that each Partner has the right to purchase, sell, develop, exploit and deal in every manner with properties, assets, transactions and business arrangements that may be similar to, competitive with or adverse to the activities, properties, assets and prospects of the Partnership, either for its personal account and benefit or in an agency or representative capacity for the account and benefit of any other Person and (b) there shall be no duty on the part of either Partner to notify the other Partner concerning, or to account to the Partnership or the other Partner for, any or all of any properties, assets or rights of whatever nature acquired through such activities permitted by this sentence, and the other Partner hereby waives and relinquishes any and all rights with respect to such Partner's involvement in any activities described above.
Free Competition. Each Party shall comply with the antitrust legislation in force. In particular, no Party shall enter into any anti-competitive agreements with competitors, suppliers, or customers. If a Party is in a dominant position on the market, it shall not abuse this position.
Free Competition. During the last three (3) years, the SQM Party and the Business Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws and resolutions of the Governmental Authorities regarding free competition that are applicable to them in the jurisdictions in which they carry out their activities, and in particular (i) the SQM Party and the Business Subsidiaries have not coordinated, (i) the SQM Party and the Business Subsidiaries have not coordinated, concerted or agreed on prices, strategies, market shares, geographic areas, or commercial conditions of any kind to be offered to customers or service providers, and has not engaged in any of the aforementioned behaviors in public or private bidding processes to which it submits its bids for the commercialization of its services; (ii) the SQM Party and the Business Subsidiaries have not obtained sensitive information from competitors by illegitimate means or contrary to the applicable Law; (iii) the SQM Party and the Business Subsidiaries have not developed activities, actions, conducts or omissions of unfair competition, anticompetitive conduct, collusion, or other equivalent defaults; y (iv) to the knowledge of the SQM Party, neither SQM nor the Business Subsidiaries are currently subject to any investigation by State agencies or Governmental Authorities in matters of free competition and public procurement, as well as any auditing, review or oversight process by such agencies and Governmental Authorities, except for standard procedures for requesting information carried out by the Fiscalía Nacional Económica.
