Cristián Reyes

Practice Areas

Corporate law and antitrust, Fintech, Regulation, Compliance programs, Litigation, Concentration operations Investigations and public audits.

Career

Cristián Reyes was the Head of the Juridical and Litigation Divisions of the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office between 2009 and 2012, where he joined in 2003 with outstanding participation in important investigations, proceedings and mergers followed before the Free Competition Defense Court and the Supreme Court.

Subsquently, he worked as a Senior Lawyer and Partner in diverse law firms specialized in regulation, free competition, compliance and complex litigation.

Some of the main cases where Cristián participated are the alleged collusion in the drugstores, chicken, tissue paper, naval shipping and buses markets, and in other relevant cases such as cryptocurrencies, radio spectrum, virtual mobile operators, tobacco, matches, the merger between D&S and Falabella, and the Tianqi case, regarding the lithium market.

Cristián is also a professor and permanent collaborator of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile’s Free Competition Center and in other Chilean universities.

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association.

Member of the Free Competition Center of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law.

Permanent advisor of the Chilean association of Fintechs (“FinteChile”).

Permanente advisor of the Chilean association of Insurtech companies (“InsurteChile”)

Internship Program in Canada’s Competition Bureau and in Brazil’s CADE (2010).

Collaboration Program with El Salvador’s Competition Superintendence (2007).

Publications

Opinion columns in El Mercurio Legal, Diario Financiero, P. Universidad Católica de Chile’s Free Competition Center and others, from 2017 to present.

Fintech and free competition studies at P. Universidad Católica de Chile’s Free Competition Center, U. Adolfo Ibañez’s Competition Center (CECO) and others, from 2015 to present.

“Economic Analysis of Procedural Law: New Perspectives”, Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Article entitled “A Response to Robert D. Cooter: Analysis of Deterrence and Why Favorable Rule-Making for Risk-Prone Persons Should Be Discouraged”, 2018.

“Estudios de Libre Competencia, Consumidor y Regulación”, P. Universidad Católica de Chile’s Free Competition Center, article entitled “Telefonía IP: Un antes y un después”, 2014.

General editor and columnist for SME Magazine “Plataforma XXI”, 2000 to 2002.