Baker McKenzie Chile

Baker McKenzie Chile’s life sciences group in Santiago covers regulatory issues, consumer safety, competition, data protection, commercial law and contracts. Additional areas include compliance, anti-corruption, corporate transactions, dispute resolution, public procurement and tax. The practice is led by intellectual and industrial property specialist, Valentina Venturelli, who also focuses on life sciences and regulatory matters in relation to the pharmaceutical sector, along with cosmetics, medical devices, foodstuffs and veterinary products. Venturelli additionally advises on product importation, distribution and commercialisation, along with sanitary regulation, clinical trials and scientific research. The group further includes Fernando Castro, who has pharmaceutical industry expertise; and Martín Muller, who advises life sciences clients. At associate level, Maria Elena Dörr assists medical device companies and pharmaceutical and cosmetics' laboratories with their operations in Chile; while Francisca Castro assists life sciences and healthcare clients with IP, consumer law and advertising issues.