Legal Alert Covid-19: New Law Facilitates Access to Medicines during Pandemics
September 23, 2020 / By Tomás Muñoz On September 22th, 2020, Act N° 21.267 was officially published. The purpose of the Act is to facilitate access to medicine by extending the validity of medical prescriptions that were given before or during a pandemic officially decreed by the Chilean Government. In particular, this is achieved by extending the prescription validity, which […]
Read moreLegal Alert Covid-19: Law that increases the capital of the Small Business Guarantee Fund (FOGAPE) and temporarily softens its requirements
May 5, 2020 / By Mauricio Halpern y Vicente Vergara On April 24, 2020, Law No. 21,229 (the “Law“) was published in the Official Gazette. Its main purpose is to provide an emergency capitalization to the FOGAPE and to temporarily relax the requirements to qualify for financing, until April 30, 2021. The FOGAPE (an acronym for the initials in Spanish, […]
Read moreLegal Alert Covid-19: Obligation to wear masks and their infringement as a source of the crime of harming public health
April 20, 2020 / By Ignacio Schwerter On April 17, 2020, Resolution No. 282 of the Ministry of Health was published in the Official Gazette. By means of this resolution, the authority established the mandatory use of masks in different places and under different circumstances: 1. To all people using public or private transportation subject to payment. The same obligation […]
Read morePermisos sin goce de sueldo y baja de salarios: las medidas en que piensan las empresas para afrontar la crisis (Diario Financiero)
Luis Parada in Diario Financiero comments on some of the measures taken by the companies to face the Coronavirus health crisis. Diario Financiero
Read moreExprofesionales de la FNE analizan cambios al organismo anunciados en agenda antiabusos (Pulso)
Carolina Bawlitza, counsel of DLA Piper comments on the anti-abuse agenda proposed by the government. Pulso
Read moreBest Lawyers 2020: baja presencia de mujeres marca última entrega de guía legal para Chile (Diario Financiero)
Matías Zegers received the Best Lawyers™ 2020 Venture Capital Law “Lawyer of the Year” award in Chile. Diario Financiero
Read moreTwenty lawyers from DLA Piper Chile were highlighted by The Best Lawyers in America© 2020
Twenty of our attorneys were recognized in sixteen categories in the tenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (2020 Edition) which analyzes nearly 1,000 attorneys and 200 local law firms. Matías Zegers received the Best Lawyers™ 2020 Venture Capital Law “Lawyer of the Year” award in Chile. Our leading lawyers were: Administrative and Public Law Carolina Bawlitza Paulina Farías […]
Read moreWaterlogic makes its first direct acquisition in Latin America with Aquafree (Lex Latin)
Waterlogic was advised by DLA Piper Chile and and the lawyers who participated in the transaction were: Paulo Larrain, Manola Quiroz, M. del Pilar Paredes, M. Isabel Izquierdo. Lex Latin
Read moreThe venture capital team behind the operation in Chile (Diario Financiero)
DLA Piper has advised Cornershop partners in their long history of ventures. Diario Financiero
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