Mr Benjamín Grebe > Prieto Abogados > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
Prieto Abogados Offices
Alonso de Córdova 4355 (piso 15)
Vitacura
Santiago
Chile
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Mr Benjamín Grebe
Work Department
Antitrust, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Arbitration.
Position
Partner
Career
Benjamín Grebe has been a partner un Prieto since 2010. He joined the firm in 1998.
He is the head of the Antitrust Area and counsels clients on prevention, as well as in investigations conducted by the National Economic Attorney Generals Office and in cases before the Antitrust Court. This is an area in which he has been distinguished by Chambers & Partners.
He also is actively involved and has significant experience in bankruptcy and insolvencies, mergers and acquisitions and in commercial arbitration.
In recent years, he has mainly dedicated to counsel and provide legal representation to clients in Antitrust area in several business areas, in process of merger control led by the authority, cases of alleged joint and unilateral abuse of dominance and alleged cartels, including one of the most recent cartel cases, representing a client as an applicant for leniency process.
In the preventive consultancy area, he assists clients with consultations related to Antitrust matters on vertical restraints, allocation, dominant position abuse, merger control procedures, agreements between competitors and joint ventures, among others. He has developed and executed, several antitrust compliance programmes for companies and trade associations, including risk analysis, compliance programme, instructive, and training courses.
Also he has counseled state companies in port bidding process, especially with his representation before the Competition Tribunal on these matters.
He leads the Insolvency and Bankruptcy area and has experience representing creditors, debtors, and interested parties on judicial proceedings of bankruptcy and insolvencies, and in commercial arbitration. He had active involvement for several years in merger and acquisitions operations, on different areas, including retail, food sector, industrial production, etc. Previously, he worked in the litigation practice area, representing clients in all sorts of civil, commercial and public law disputes.
He earned a LLM from University of Warwick, where he graduated cum laude. He studied law at Universidad Finis Terrae, where he was awarded the Francisco Bulnes Ripamonti prize as the best student in his class.
Languages
Spanish and English.
Memberships
He is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and of the IBA and is on the arbitrators roster of the National Arbitration Center. He is the firm’s Coordinator with the Pro Bono Foundation.
Education
Diploma in the Economics of Competition, Fundamentals for Attorneys, Universidad de los Andes, 2007. LL.M., University of Warwick, 2005.Law Degree, Universidad Finis Terrae, 1998.
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring
(Leading partners)The six-member practice at full-service legal major Prieto Abogados is routinely involved in Chilean insolvency judicial procedures such as liquidations and reorganisations. The group also leverages the firm’s significant bankruptcy expertise during restructuring and financing negotiations involving defaulting companies and debt negotiations. Its specialisms further extend to international and multi-jurisdictional Chapter 11 matters. In recent highlights, the group advised Banco Internacional on the bankruptcy-related reorganisation of Sencorp. The insolvency and restructuring department is co-led by Benjamín Grebe, a longstanding specialist in creditor-side insolvency procedures; and dispute resolution head Alberto González V, whose practice covers insolvency proceedings and bankruptcies. The associate pool includes Vicente Tapia and Javier Albornoz (2022 recruits from Australis Seafoods and Deloitte Legal Chile, respectively).
Chile > Competition and antitrust
(Leading partners)Full-service firm Prieto Abogados fields a ‘great‘ five-strong team that regularly acts in contentious and non-contentious TDLC cases. It also assists clients before the FNE in cartel and abuse-of-dominant-position investigations, as well as merger-control reviews and the analysis of concentration operations. The group additionally provides pre-emptive advice to clients, in relation to contracts, antitrust protocols, reports and compliance programmes. Benjamín Grebe, whose practice covers preventive advice, FNE investigations and TDLC cases; and ‘very precise‘ counsel Andrea Von Chrismar, an expert in markets where economic regulation intersects with competition law, co-head the practice. Notable expansion at associate level includes the 2022 recruitment of Vicente Tapia, Javier Albornoz and Carolina Soto from Australis Seafoods, Deloitte Legal Chile and Andes Iron, respectively. Former associates Daniella Ibaceta and Santiago Errázuriz recently exited for the TDLC and LLM studies at New York University, respectively.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Chile > Competition and antitrust
- Leading partners Chile > Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring
- Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring Chile
- Competition and antitrust Chile
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Firm Rankings
- Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A
- Projects and infrastructure
- Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Environment
- Insurance
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Public law
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT
- Dispute resolution: arbitration