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José Ignacio Díaz Villalobos | QR

José Ignacio Díaz | Partner

SD&D

Admissions and education.

 

  • Lawyer, admitted to the Chilean Bar since 1996

  • LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) (Summa Cum Laude) | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994

  • LL.M. (Master of Laws) | Duke University, USA, 2000

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Experience.​

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  • Sanhueza, Díaz & Domínguez (2024 – present)

  • Seduc | Chief Executive Officer (2018 – 2024) 

  • Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. | Legal Chief Officer Chile (2009 – 2018)

  • Yrarrázaval, Ruiz-Tagle, Goldenberg, Lagos & Silva (2006 - 2009)

  • Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Nueva York, USA (2000 - 2001).

  • Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner (1996 - 2006)

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Academic activities.​

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  • Universidad de los Andes, Chile | Professor of Commercial Law (2002 - presente)

  • Universidad de los Andes, Chile | Dean of the Master's in Business Law (2008 - 2013)

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Memberships.​

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  • Arbitrator | Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce ("CAM," for its acronym in Spanish) (2008 - present)

  • Permanent Member of the Committee for Concordance and Jurisprudence of the Codes of the Republic of Chile (Abeledo Perrot - Legal Publishing), Commercial Code Section (2006 - present)

  • Client Ombudsman for the Chilean Association of Banks and Financial Institutions ("ABIF," for its acronym in Spanish) (2021 - present)

  • Chilean Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados de Chile, AG)

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Publications.​

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  • Co-author of the book “El Arbitraje Interno y Comercial Internacional” (Internal and International Commercial Arbitration), Editorial Jurídica LexisNexis, 2007. Second edition, Ediciones UC, 2016. This publication was part of the Fondecyt research project No. 1040342, obtained in the 2004 public competition, "Nuevas orientaciones en materia de arbitraje civil y comercial internacional" (New Trends in Civil and International Commercial Arbitration).

  • Co-editor of the book "Empresas de Responsabilidad Limitada, Nuevo Régimen Legal de Organización Empresarial" (Limited Liability Companies, New Legal Regime of Business Organization), in Cuadernos de Extensión Jurídica, 2004, and author of the article "Constitución, transformación y fusión de las Empresas Individuales de Responsabilidad Limitada" (Incorporation, Transformation, and Merger of Individual Limited Liability Companies).

  • Co-author of the article "La Acción de Responsabilidad Civil del Artículo 133 bis de la Ley de Sociedades Anónimas" (The Civil Liability Action in Article 133 bis of the Chilean Corporations Act), published in Revista de Derecho y Jurisprudencia, Vol. XCIX, No. 3, July-September 2002, pp. 51-65, included in Colección Jurídica Grandes Obras, Doctrinas Esenciales de la Revista de Derecho, sección Derecho Comercial (the legal collection Grandes Obras, (Essential Doctrines of the Journal of Law, Commercial Law section).

  • Author of the Commentary on Law 18.046 on Corporations in the book "Código de Comercio Comentado" (Commented Commercial Code), AbeledoPerrot LegalPublishing Chile, 2011, and editor of such book.

  • Co-author of the article "Buena Fe e Interés Social: una aproximación a los límites de la actuación del controlador en la junta de accionistas de la sociedad anónima" (Good Faith and Social Interest: An Approach to the Limits of the Controller’s Actions in the Shareholders’ Meeting of a Corporation), included in the book La Buena Fe en el Derecho (Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2020), pp. 227-249.

  • Author of the article "Limitación de la Responsabilidad de los Socios" (Limitation of Liability of Shareholders), published in Estudios de Derecho Comercial, Primeras Jornadas Chilenas de Derecho Comercial, Editorial Jurídica AbeledoPerrot LegalPublishing Chile.

  • Author of the article “Las Sociedades por Acciones" (The Stock Companies) published in La Semana Jurídica, August 2007.

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Languages.​

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  • Spanish and English.​​​​​​​

 

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