Focuses his practice mainly on civil and commercial litigation, consumer law, bankruptcy proceedings and arbitration.

Representative Experience

Lácteos del Sur: Advised Lácteos del Sur in an arbitration against a meat packing plant located in the south of Chile.

Metro S.A.: Advised Metro S.A. in a very relevant case heard by the full E. Supreme Court

Adexus: Counsel to Adexus against FONASA.

Metro S.A: Representing Metro S.A. in an arbitration against Ingerop and Geontrol.

COMINOR: Counsel to COMINOR in an arbitration against Kinross

Counsel in Chile: to the Unsecured Creditors Committee of Chapter 11 initiated by CorpGroup Banking in the US.

Mining companies: Arbitration between two mining companies litigating for specific performance of a contract requesting a declaration of unenforceability of certain acts based on civil fraud and under the theory of veil piercing.

Various clients: Various defenses of individuals for charges by the Investigation Unit of the Financial Market Commission, both in administrative and legal proceedings.

Gas Distribution Company: Representation of gas distribution company in lawsuit filing by person injured due to fire.

Pharmaceutical Laboratories: Representation of pharmaceutical laboratory in lawsuit filed against CENABAST for damages, obtaining a favorable result in both instances as well as in the cassation appeal before the Supreme Court.

Pharmaceutical Laboratories: Support to pharmaceutical laboratories, both in administrative and legal proceedings, in multiple sanctioning procedures initiated by the ISP.

Large Freight Company: Representation of large freight company in arbitration and in first instance lawsuits initiated by construction contractors.

Technology Industry Client: Representation of IT client in a first instance lawsuit against FONASA.

Foreign Food Company: Representation of a foreign food company in lawsuit against a salmon producer, applying the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Companies in Various Sectors: Defense of several companies in numerous trials on alleged infringement and civil liability in consumer law matters.

Credentials

Admission

  • Chile (2015)

Recognitions

  • Universidad de Los Andes Honor Scholarship to best student of the generation, 2012.
  • Grupo Vial Abogados Award for best score in Commercial Law, 2013.
  • Outstanding practice, Corporación de Asistencia Judicial RM, 2015.

Languages

  • Spanish and English.

Education

  • LL.B Universidad de Los Andes, 2014.
  • Diploma in Advanced Studies in Civil Liability, Universidad de Los Andes, 2013.
  • Diploma in “New Trends in Contracts and Torts’’, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2019.
  • Diploma in Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Liquidation, Universidad de Chile, 2023.

career

Associate, NLD Abogados, 2021 to date.

Associate, DLA Piper BAZ / NLD, 2018-2020.

Associate, Laiz & Morales, 2015-2017.