Mr Andrés Grunewaldt > Silva > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Silva
HENDAYA 60, 4TH FLOOR
LAS CONDES
SANTIAGO, 7550188
Chile

Work Department

Regulatory / Litigation / Geographical indications and appellations of origin

Position

Partner

Career

Lawyer from the University of Chile, holds a Master’s in Law from the University of Valencia, Spain; an LLM from Duke University, United States; and a postgraduate degree in cybersecurity and cyberdefense from the University of Chile.

He leads the litigation department of the firm, advising both national and international clients in civil, administrative, and criminal proceedings, with a focus on intellectual property, economic criminal law, advertising law, unfair competition, customs, administrative contentious matters, and related lawsuits.

He worked for 5 years in the National Prosecutor’s Office, in the Specialized Unit for Money Laundering, Economic Crimes, and Organized Crime, where he headed the Economic Crimes Department in 2008. He was invited by the Ministry of Justice to participate in the drafting commission of the new Penal Code, specifically to propose the new regulation of crimes against industrial property and copyright. He has been an Arbitrator for NIC Chile for the allocation of .CL domain names since 2013. He is currently a director of the Chilean Association of Intellectual Property (ACHIPI).

Author of various articles and monographs, he is also a postgraduate-level professor at the Catholic University, the University of Chile, and Adolfo Ibáñez University, and has also spoken at seminars on intellectual property and economic criminal law.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

He is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), Chilean Association of Intellectual Property (ACHIPI), and Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Society, Duke Law School.

Lawyer Rankings

Chile > Intellectual property

IP firm Silva has an enviable market reputation for its advice to domestic and foreign companies on trade marks, patents, copyright, data privacy, and domain names. The 11-member practice is also sought out to assist with geographical indications and designations of origin, along with significant enforcement and litigation work. Co-leading the practice, founding and managing partner Juan Pablo Silva‘s track record includes representing the IP rights of multinational companies from the financial services, retail, telecoms, media and sports industries; Francisco Silva‘s current practice incorporates heavyweight international trade mark and patent cases; and Ricardo Montero is a trade mark, domain name and copyright expert. The second line of key practitioners features Andrés Grunewaldt, a litigator and specialist in geographical indications and designations of origin; copyright and patent practitioner Rodrigo León; and recently-promoted partner Sebastián Alvarado. The practice further expanded during 2022 through the recruitment of associates Manuel Concha, Isidora Palma and Victoria Correa from Ruiz Salazar, Grupo EFE (state railway company) and software company Lemontech, respectively.