Aninat Abogados

Corporate/M&A/Litigation/Arbitration

Founding Partner at Aninat Abogados

Luis Alberto has a distinguished professional career for over 30 years, focusing his legal practice on corporate, transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution matters.

In this context, his professional practice is recognized in the legal market for advising Chilean and foreign companies, funds, and other business entities in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Financing, and asset restructuring projects, representing clients operating in various economic sectors, including commerce, finance, services, natural resources, real estate and construction, infrastructure, technology, and communications.

His clients range from multinational companies to private and family-owned businesses, as well as startups and new ventures. His work encompasses corporate selection and formation, company acquisitions, financing agreements, partnership and shareholder agreements, governance matters, and restructuring procedures within companies and their subsidiaries.

Also, he has advised corporate clients on product liability, consumer protection, competition and antitrust issues, regulatory matters, and has represented corporate clients before the Financial Market Commission (CMF) and other government agencies.

In addition to his prestige and professional reputation in corporate and economic law, he has extensive experience in regulatory matters, primarily associated with natural resources and real estate and construction issues, advising prominent clients in contentious administrative processes, investigations, obtaining permits and approvals, administrative resolutions and their challenges, acting before the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, sectoral authorities, the central government, and decentralized agencies. On the other hand, Mr. Aninat is a specialized arbitrator in corporate matters,

Founding partner at Aninat Abogados. Lawyer, Universidad de Chile; .LM., Columbia University, New York, and Diploma in Economics, Universidad de Chile. He has a distinguished professional career for over 30 years, focusing his legal practice on corporate, transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution matters.

In this context, his professional practice is recognized in the legal market for advising Chilean and foreign companies, funds, and other business entities in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Financing, and asset restructuring projects, representing clients operating in various economic sectors, including commerce, finance, services, natural resources, real estate and construction, infrastructure, technology, and communications.

His clients range from multinational companies to private and family-owned businesses, as well as startups and new ventures. His work encompasses corporate selection and formation, company acquisitions, financing agreements, partnership and shareholder agreements, governance matters, and restructuring procedures within companies and their subsidiaries.

Also, he has advised corporate clients on product liability, consumer protection, competition and antitrust issues, regulatory matters, and has represented corporate clients before the Financial Market Commission (CMF) and other government agencies.

In addition to his prestige and professional reputation in corporate and economic law, he has extensive experience in regulatory matters, primarily associated with natural resources and real estate and construction issues, advising prominent clients in contentious administrative processes, investigations, obtaining permits and approvals, administrative resolutions and their challenges, acting before the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, sectoral authorities, the central government, and decentralized agencies.

Mr. Aninat is actively participates in the legal environment instances associated with his expertise, generating the necessary networking to contribute with his experience and expertise  to to strengthen the dynamic and competitive legal market.

His currently reputation and leadership in the legal market have been recognized in recent years by the most prestigious legal rankings as a leading lawyer in the areas of Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions (Chambers Latin America and Chambers Global); Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation, and Competition Law (Latin Lawyer); Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions (Best Lawyers); Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Competition Law, Litigation, and Real Estate (The Legal 500); Mergers and Acquisitions (IFLR 1000), Recommended Lawyer by the Latin America Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA), among others:

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Member of the Board of the Chilean Bar Association A.G. Department of Commercial Law, University of Chile Law School. International Bar Association. Columbia Latin America Business Law Association. Member of the Council of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CAM Santiago). Member of the list of corporate arbitrators of both the National Arbitration Center and the Santiago Court of Appeals. Member of the board of Parque del Sendero SpA and its subsidiaries, Register of Directors of the Superintendency of Pensions 

Lawyer, Universidad de Chile. LLM., Columbia University, New York, Diploma in Economics, Universidad de Chile.

He has over 20 years of university teaching experience, serving as a professor of commercial and economic law for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at prestigious universities in the country, including Universidad de Chile and Universidad Diego Portales. Additionally, he has important  academic publications, participates in seminars and forums, as well as in the media, addressing topics of his expertise in commercial and corporate law, establishing himself as an opinion referee for the media and key decision-makers about Corporate and Commercial Law.

Awards and Recognitions

Highlighted by several specialized international publications as a leading lawyer in the areas of Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions (Chambers Latin America and Chambers Global); Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation and Antitrust (Latin Lawyer 250); Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions (Best Lawyers); Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Antitrust, Litigation and Real Estate (Legal 500); Mergers and Acquisitions (IFLR 1000). Recommended by the Latin America Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA).