Juan Domingo Acosta

Practice Areas

Juan is the managing partner at Acosta & Cia, focused on complex conflicts and litigation, mainly related to fraud, computer crimes, tax crimes, customs, crimes committed in the exercise of public function, free competition, securities and banking market and environmental crimes.

In his more than 36 years of experience, in addition to participating in civil, commercial, constitutional and administrative sanctioning procedures, he has advised several government agencies and the National Congress in the drafting and processing of bills, generally in criminal matters. He has also been a member of various legislative commissions organized by the Ministry of Justice of Chile for the drafting of various laws and a new Criminal Code for Chile (draft bills of 2004; 2013; 2015 and 2018).

He has been professor of Criminal Law at Universidad Andrés Bello, Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad de Talca, among others.

Career

Former partner at Hermosilla y Compañía; former partner at Espina, Zepeda & Acosta. In 2013 he founded Acosta & Cía.

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association and Institute of Criminal Sciences.

Publications

“Aspectos generales de la prevaricación” (General aspects of prevarication), Revista chilena de derecho, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1983, pages 103-124.

“Comentario de Sentencia CS (6 de diciembre, 1985) [casación en el fondo por malversación de caudales públicos; anulatoria y de reemplazo]” (Comments on SC Judgment (December 6, 1985) [cassation on merits for embezzlement of public funds; annulment and replacement].), Revista chilena de derecho, ISSN 0716-0747, Volume 13, No. 2, 1986, pages 422-427.

“El delito de comunicación fraudulenta de secretos de fábrica” (The crime of fraudulent communication of factory secrets), Revista chilena de derecho Vol. 15, Nºo. 1, 1988, pages 65-79.

“Artículo 10° N°s 7° y 11° del Código Penal. Algunos criterios de delimitación” (Article 10 Nos. 7 and 11 of the Criminal Code. Some delimitation criteria), published in “Humanizar y renovar el derecho penal. Estudios en memoria de Enrique Cury”, LegalPublishing Thomson Reuters, 2013, pages 691-714.

Personal

- Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1984). Suma cum laude.

- Attorney. Supreme Court (1984).