Eugenio Gormaz > Albagli Zaliasnik > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

The sole Chilean member firm of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance, Albagli Zaliasnik is ‘highly committed to clients’ needs’. Recent highlights include assisting Empresas La Polar with its consumer law breach-related settlement with SERNAC. The caseload of litigation and arbitration specialist Ariela Agosin covers advertising and IP law, while fellow practice group co-head Eugenio Gormáz leads the IP, technology and data group. The department also includes director of public law and regulated markets, Antonio Rubilar; senior associate and intellectual and industrial property practitioner, Antonia Nudman; and associate Gonzalo Bravo, who focuses on consumer law.

Albagli Zaliasnik‘s nine-member team is made up of ‘lawyers who are passionate about personal data’. The group’s expertise ranges from data mapping, compliance, binding corporate rules, infringement prevention programmes and the creation of privacy policies, to DPO services, personal data transfer-related hirings, and the due diligence of databases during M&A deals. The group additionally handles personal data disputes and the legal review of database usage. The firm’s IP, technology and data department is led by Eugenio Gormaz, while director Francisca Franzani heads-up the firm’s compliance practice. At associate level, senior Antonia Nudman (IP, data protection and privacy, technology and E-commerce) and Constanza Pasarin (who ‘provides quick and effective solutions’), are the names to note.

‘Very knowledgeable about IP law’, Albagli Zaliasnik houses sector specialists in technology, electronics, telecoms, automobiles, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, and food and beverages. The seven-member team handles copyright, trade marks, patents, and digital and internet rights. It also assists with consumer protection issues, anti-piracy, licensing, unfair competition, and industrial and business secrets. Recent highlights include assisting pharmaceutical company Sandoz Group with reviewing the status of several patent applications of competitors. The IP, technology and data group is led by Eugenio Gormáz, whose expertise encompasses trade marks, patents, copyright, advertising law, licenses, plant varieties and denominations of origin / geographical indications. Gormáz is ‘able to navigate complex and dynamic subjects’; and is supported by Ariela Agosin, whose wide-ranging practice covers IP work, in addition to civil, commercial and regulatory litigation. In the firm’s senior associate ranks, intellectual and industrial property specialist Antonia Nudman advises on litigation and contracts involving copyright, trade marks, investment patents, consumer protection, e-commerce, and unfair competition; and Carlos Lazcano, a 2023 hire from Baker McKenzie Chile, who focuses on intellectual and industrial property matters, including prosecutions, disputes and monitoring trade marks in Chile and abroad. Laczano also advises on copyright, domain names, patents, industrial designs, plant varieties and advertising law.

Albagli Zaliasnik‘s six-member life sciences team provides regulatory protection services to national and international pharmaceutical companies. The full-service law firm’s expertise ranges from biotechnology, pharmaceutical products, medical devices and cosmetics, to food-related litigation. Providing ‘great availability’, the group also comprises experts in compliance, investigations, competition and litigation, along with technology transfers, advertising, R&D, public tenders, clinical trials, and IP. Recent highlights saw the team assist Mega Labs in relation to investigations by the Instituto de Salud Publica which aim to determine compliance levels with bioequivalence, promotion and advertising regulations. The practice group’s principal figures are: Ariela Agosin, who heads up the firm’s civil litigation and arbitration, and public law and regulated markets groups, and whose wide-ranging practice includes pharmaceutical regulation; and IP, technology and data privacy group leader Eugenio Gormáz, whose experience covers plant varieties, in addition to trade marks, patents, copyright, IT, advertising law and licensing. In the associate ranks, senior Dafne Guerra, who regularly assists pharmaceutical, medical devices, biotechnology, cosmetic and food industry clients, handles the majority of the firm’s pharmaceutical-related public law matters; Gonzalo Bravo acts in civil and regulatory disputes involving the life sciences sector; and Lucas Norambuena‘s experience includes representing major pharmaceutical laboratories in life sciences-related regulatory conflicts. The team was further strengthened with the arrival (from Baker McKenzie Chile) of the IP-focused Carlos Lazcano as a senior associate in June 2023.