Leadership and experience to advise major companies.
More than 25 years of experience advising and working with major telecommunications companies in Chile and Latin America.
Leader and expert in telecommunications regulation, technology, competition and antitrust, consumer protection, personal data protection and cybersecurity.
Experience
TORMO ABOGADOS, is a specialist firm focused on new challenges and regulations.
Founding partner at Tormo Abogados, also directs the area (TMT) of Technology, Media and Telecommunications.
He is an expert in telecommunications regulation, technology, competition and Antitrust, consumer law, cybersecurity, privacy and data protection.
He also has vast experience in corporate law and litigation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
He was Partner at JJR abogados in charge of the TMT area leading all the related
matters (2024-2020). Prior to that he was Manager of Institutional and Strategic
Relations at ENTEL (2020-2011) providing strategic advice on regulatory and
antitrust issues, M&A, company acquisitions and concessions, participation in
public tenders for spectrum allocation, participation in regulatory and antitrust
litigation with the greatest impact on the sector.
Additionally, he was representative before different authorities and institutions, including among others the National Economic Prosecutor's Office, Sernac, Undersecretary of Telecommunications, General Comptroller of the Republic, Transparency Council and the National Television Council.
He has also participated on numerous occasions in different commissions of the
National Congress on various topics. Prior to that, he was Chief Legal Manager (CLO) of ENTEL PCS (2011-1997), in charge and leading all legal and corporate affairs.
International experience
He was Chairman of the Legal and
Regulatory Group of GSM Latin
America (2019- 2000), which is part
of the Global System for Mobile
Communications (the GSM
Association); Director, Legal
Secretary and Lawyer of GSM
Latin america (2011-2005;
ENTEL’s representative to the
Policy Group for Latin America
(PG Latam) (2020-2011).
Education
Lawyer, Universidad de Chile (1993). Diploma, Specialization in Taxation, School of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Universidad de Chile, (1995), highest distinction. Master in Business Law, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (MBL) (2000); Master of Arts in International Business Law, University of California, Davis, United States (2005); and courses on Antitrust Law, Regulation and Free Competition, both part of the Antitrust Diploma, Competence Center Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2009.
Professor
Cristián teaches classes in different regulatory and antitrust matters, including specialized professional refresher courses in the Master in Regulatory Law LLM of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2011 to date); the Master in Regulatory Law LLM of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2011 to date); the Magister in Public Law at Universidad Finis Terrae (2016 to date) and the Diplomas in Free Competition and Protection of Personal Data, both taught by the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2018 to date). Additionally, he is Professor of the Department of Economic, Commercial and Tax Law of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2013 to date) and Visiting Professor of the Department of Public Law of the Law School Universidad de Chile (2020 - 2009). He has been invited as a lecturer to the Diploma in Cybersecurity of the Faculty of Government of the Universidad del Desarrollo (2023).
Speaker
He has participated as speaker and lecturer in many conferences, seminars, and lectures on a local and international level, including Europe, USA, and Latin America. He also has been invited to speak as an expert and academic on numerous occasions before committees of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of the Chilean Congress in relation to bills in the field of his specialty. He has provided training on telecommunications and antitrust to foreign regulatory agencies. Among his publications stands out: “Forced and Retroactive Colocalization in Mobile Telephony: An Unconstitutional and Anticompetitive Practice”, Estudios de Libre Competencia, Consumidor y Regulación, Centro de Libre Competencia Derecho UC (1), published in 2013 and "Massive Infringement of Personal Data by the State in the Undersecretary of Telecommunications with Entel, Criticism of the Role of Administrative Jurisdiction and Challenges of the New Institutionality." Revista de Derecho Aplicado LLM UC, (11) published in 2023.
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Las Condes, Santiago.