Ms Valentina Venturelli > Baker McKenzie Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Notably active in both advisory and litigation work, Baker McKenzie Chile‘s 10-member group covers product liability and recalls, as well as compliance with advertising regulations for the alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food and beverage industries. The team also assists with compliance with information obligations to consumers, consumer matters before SERNAC, and individual and class actions. Dispute resolution head Rodrigo De Valdés and Ignacio Naudon are class action specialists, while IP expert Valentina Venturelli also advises on consumer and advertising matters. Key senior associate Juan Ignacio Donoso focuses on consumer, competition and compliance work.

Baker McKenzie Chile‘s three-member team acts across the gamut of IP work. Its expertise covers trade marks, copyright, domain names and patent law, including prosecution, enforcement, litigation and regulatory work. The group’s experience also extends to innovation-related advice and IP-related transactional issues, such as licensing and assignments. The practice is led by Valentina Venturelli, who is particularly experienced in pharmaceutical and healthcare-related trade mark and patent prosecutions. Providing key support, senior associate Sebastián Dorena predominantly focuses on anti-counterfeiting work, IP litigation, and enforcements and prosecutions. Former associate Carlos Lazcano left the firm in June 2023.

Baker McKenzie Chile‘s eight-strong life sciences practice routinely leverages the Santiago office’s membership of the global Baker McKenzie LLP network, which facilitates access to healthcare law specialists worldwide. On the regulatory side, the team advises on the licenses required to manufacture, sell, distribute and advertise life sciences-related products. The department also handles complex product recall proceedings, product liability issues, and the antitrust and competition aspects of the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and medical device industries. The practice group additionally advises on IP, data protection, contractual matters, and compliance issues. Major clients include Colgate-Palmolive Chile, which the firm advises on corporate, labour, consumer protection, advertisement and regulatory issues, with recent mandates seeing the team assist Deutsche Pharma with the registration and defence of its trade marks in Chile. Heading up the department, Valentina Venturelli is an intellectual and industrial property specialist who has expertise in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, medical device, foodstuff and veterinary sectors; and corporate and partnership law expert Fernando Castro likewise has pharmaceutical industry experience. At associate level, Maria Elena Dörr acts for medical device companies, and pharmaceutical and cosmetics laboratories; and Martín Muller advises on corporate compliance and governance matters. Former associate Carlos Lazcano departed the firm in June 2023.