Magliona Abogados

Corporate and financing, technology law, telecommunications, intellectual and industrial property and entertainment law, including corporate structures, mergers and acquisitions, financing, licensing and software development agreements, franchising, data protection, prevention of computer crimes and film distribution, production and financing.

Partner at Magliona Abogados.

Current Partner at Magliona Abogados. From 1998-2002 and 2006 Mr. Magliona worked as an associate with Carey y Cia’s Banking and Financial Group, where he headed transactions such as D&S Debt Restructure (CH$120.000.000.000) and the Foreign Credit Agreement from San Paolo Imi to Banco del Desarrollo (US$100.000.000). From 2003 to 2005 Mr. Magliona worked as a foreign attorney with Greenberg Glusker’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group (part of Neff Law Group Merger), Los Angeles, CA. During that time he also was legal advisor to the Latin America Committee of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), Washington, D.C. and BSA country manager in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela.

Claudio Magliona has an extensive practice in corporate and financing, technology law, telecommunications, intellectual and industrial property and entertainment law, including corporate structures, mergers and acquisitions, financing and syndicated loan agreements, licensing and software development agreements, franchising, data protection, computer crimes and film distribution, production and financing. Mr. Magliona also handles government relations and policy matters.

Relevant Transactions: acquisition of Bazuca.com by VTR (2007), acquisition of Deremate.com Chile by MercadoLibre (2009), multimillion buy out in famous consumer product company (2010), international financing of Compara Online by Grupo Kaszek (2012), acquisition of CortaContas (Brasil) and entrance of BuscaPe Group to Compara Online (2013), acquisition of renal care centers by Diaverum UK (2012-2013), acquisition of SaferTaxi by Tappsi SAS (Colombia) (2014) and the acquisition of Portalinmobiliario by Mercado Libre (2014), credit agreement from Société Générale to Sucden Chile S.A. (2016), Adessa Falabella Data Center sale to GTD Grupo Teleductos (2018), advised Kaszek Ventures in financing rounds for Fintual (2020), Phage Technologies and Xepelin (2021), among others.

Ranked by (i) Chambers Latin America 2024 in TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology) (Band 1) and in Intellectual Property (Band 3), (ii) Chambers Fintech Legal 2023 (Band 1), (iii) Chambers Global 2023 in Intellectual Property (Band 3), (iv) The Legal 500 Latin America 2023 in TMT (Leading Individual), and Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Corporate and M&A, (v) Best Lawyers 2022 as Lawyer of the Year in Media Law and Best Lawyers 2023 in Communications Law, Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law, Media Law, Privacy and Data Security Law and Technology Law, (vi) Leaders League 2023 as Leader in Technology, Excellent in Fintech, Highly Recommended in Telecommunications Law and in Enforcement & Anti-counterfeiting Actions, Recommended in Patent Prosecution, Patent Litigation, Trademark Prosecution, IP Litigation as well as in M&A, (vii) IP Stars 2023 as Trademark Star, (viii) LACCA Approved 2021 in Corporate and M&A, (ix) Leading Lawyers 2022 as the most influential lawyer in Chile in TMT (x) Latin Lawyer 250 edition 2024 in Privacy, Data Protection and Technology as well as Telecoms and Media.

Mr. Magliona Speaks English and Spanish and is proficient in Hebrew.

Mr. Magliona is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and the International Bar Association (IBA), President of the Legal Group of the Chilean Association of Technology Companies (ACTI), Vice President of the Commission of Digital Economy and Productivity of the National Chamber of Commerce (CNC), Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity Alliance, Director of ISOC Chile, among others.

Mr. Magliona is a graduate of Universidad de Chile (Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales con Distinción, 1997) and Stanford Law School (Master of Laws (LLM) in Law, Science & Technology, 2003). He was admitted to the Bar in 1997.Mr. Magliona is Professor at Universidad de Chile Law School and former Director of the LLM in Law, Technologies, Telecommunications and Intellectual Property (2012-2016).

Golf, Ski, family.