Chile: Corporate/Commercial Law

Doing Business In Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Chile, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

Earlier this year, the Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE), Chile's competition authority, closed a gun-jumping investigation into GSK's acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare business in Chile.

On March 24, 2018, a law for the creation of a corporation named "Infrastructure Fund Inc.", hereinafter the "Fund" was enacted.

La Comisión para el Mercado Financiero de Chile ha publicado una propuesta normativa que busca crear un Compendio de Normas para las Entidades Clasificadoras de Riesgo, modernizando la regulación actual y estableciendo nuevos requisitos de gobierno corporativo, independencia y transparencia. ¿Cómo impactarán estas modificaciones en las clasificadoras de riesgo y qué cambios deberán implementar las entidades ya inscritas?

Doing Business In Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Chile, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

If your firm still runs like a 1990s back office while your clients live on their phones, there's a gap – and competitors may already be taking advantage of it.

A Chilean appellate court annulled a major international arbitration award in a salmon-farming acquisition dispute, ruling that the tribunal exceeded its mandate by recharacterizing the buyers' contractual damages claim into an unpleaded restitutionary price adjustment claim. The decision explores the boundaries of the iura novit curia principle and its limits when tribunals reshape claims beyond what parties actually submitted for arbitration.

Doing Business In Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Chile, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

International commercial arbitration in Chile is governed by a modern statutory framework based on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (1985), as enacted through Law No. 19,971...

Alternative Investment Funds Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Chile, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

This article provides a brief guide to marketing foreign investment funds in Chile. It sets out some preliminary considerations regarding the legal nature of the investments typically offered in a fundraising exercise; ...

On February 12, 2019, the Chilean Commission for the Financial Market ("Comisión para el Mercado Financiero" o "CMF") issued General Rule No. 431 ("NCG 431), regarding the deadlines for reporting of quarterly and annual reports and financial statements for the following entities.