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.