PRACTICE AREAS
Litigation, Antitrust and Economic Regulation, Arbitration, Insolvency and Reorganization.
INDUSTRIES
Consumer and Retail, Technology, Media and Telecommunications..
EXPERIENCE
Álvaro focuses his practice on Litigation and Arbitration, Insolvency and Restructuring, and Antitrust.
He has experience in civil, commercial, and constitutional litigation, as well as in arbitration proceedings.
He regularly represents clients in reorganization and liquidation proceedings, including clawback actions and other insolvency-related litigation.
In antitrust matters, he has represented clients in administrative investigations and judicial proceedings involving cartels, abuse of dominance, vertical restraints, follow-on damages claims, merger control, and regulatory recommendation proceedings.
In consumer protection matters, Álvaro has experience in both administrative proceedings before Sernac (including collective voluntary proceedings, safety alerts and recalls, and general investigations) and judicial proceedings, including class actions. He also advises clients on preventive compliance.
He has been a professor of Civil Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile since 2014. He also teaches in the Law School’s postgraduate diploma programs in Antitrust (since 2024) and Insolvency (since 2026).
He was an associate at Claro & Cía. from 2011 to 2013 and served as a rapporteur (clerk) at Chile’s Competition Tribunal (Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia) from 2013 to 2016. From 2017 to 2018, he was an international associate in the litigation department of Shearman & Sterling LLP (now A&O Shearman) in New York. He rejoined Claro & Cía. in 2018 and has been a partner since 2022.
He has been admitted to practice law in Chile since 2012 and in the State of New York since 2018.
EDUCATION
Law Degree (Licenciatura en Derecho), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2011.
Tocornal and Pedro N. Montenegro Awards, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law, granted to the top student of his class, 2009.
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School, 2017 (Becas Chile and Fulbright scholar). Dean’s Scholar Prize recipient in International Arbitration, Professional Ethics, and Analytical Methods for Lawyers.