Latin America - Chile

Albagli Zaliasnik

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Albagli Zaliasnik's multidisciplinary life sciences practice routinely acts for major national and international pharmaceutical companies on both regulatory and patent infringement issues. The group’s offering covers the implementation of crime prevention programmes, antitrust expertise, and regular interactions with Chile’s health authorities. Its specialisms further include biotechnology, medical devices, cosmetics, and food-processing regulations and litigation, along with chemical law, R&D, clinical trials, and technology transfer and commercialisation issues. The principal advisers are litigation head and pharmaceutical regulatory specialist, Ariela Agosin; and IP group director Eugenio Gormáz, whose broad practice ranges from trade marks, patents and copyright, to advertising law, licenses, plant varieties, and denominations of origin and geographical indications. Key senior associate Dafne Guerra is ‘outstanding for her knowledge of the industry'.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Senior associate Dafne Guerra is outstanding for her knowledge of the industry.'

Key clients

  • Mega Labs (Pharma Investi and Garden House Farmaceúticas)
  • Sandoz
  • Abbott Laboratories
  • Grunenthal Laboratories
  • Laboratorios Gador
  • Genomma Lab Chile
  • DKT Chile
  • Happ Labs
  • Asociación Industrial de Laboratorios Farmacéuticos
  • NotCo
  • Laboratorios Saval

Work highlights

  • Acting for Sandoz (a Novartis company) in a complex case involving a biosimilar pharmaceutical product (Etanercept).
  • Assisted Laboratorios Saval with a highly complex preliminary injunction case, regarding a claim brought by Bayer in relation to generic drug Rivaroxaban.
  • Currently representing the interests of Abbott Laboratories in a consultation procedure initiated by SOCOFAR before the Competition Court.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ariela Agosin, Eugenio Gormaz