Acosta & Cia.

Senior Partner: Juan Domingo Acosta Sánchez
Number of partners: 1
Number of other lawyers: 4

Firm Overview:
ACOSTA & CÍA. is an independent Chilean boutique law firm specialized in highly complex litigation, especially in the criminal, civil, administrative, punitive and constitutional fields.

It is formed by attorneys with a deep knowledge of litigation in criminal matters related to financial, environmental, property, administrative and public procurement aspects, as well as to specially regulated activities such as free competition, stock market, banking and mining.

The firm's values are to provide the best legal defense, privileging the personalized and comprehensive relationship with clients and under the strictest respect for professional ethics.

The Acosta & Cía. team habitually intervenes in litigation of high public connotation representing important interests and participating in complex processes, which reflects the leadership position granted to it in litigation in Chile.

Main Areas of Practice:
Dispute Resolution — White Collar Crime: 90%
Dispute Resolution — Litigation: 5%
Public Law: 5%

Complex Criminal Litigation:
The firm provides advice and defense in all types of criminal conflicts related to financial, environmental, property, public procurement and specially regulated activities such as free competition, securities market, banking or mining, among others.

Dispute Resolution — White Collar Crime:
The firm is specialised in the integral advising and legal defense to companies, institutions and individuals in complex criminal litigation concerning frauds, banking crimes, securities market crimes, tax and customs crimes, crimes related to the exercise of the public function environmental crimes and punishable insolvencies. The firm also develops an important work of advising to companies with the purpose of timely preventing and detecting the commission of crimes, as well as to design and to implement strategies aimed at protecting the interests of the client before the criminal justice system.

Dispute Resolution — Litigation:
Acosta & Cía. represents the interests and rights of its clients, either individuals and legal entities, in civil, commercial and constitutional lawsuits that have mainly pecuniary nature.

Public Law:
The law firm engages in all types of administrative sanctioning or administrative litigation proceedings carried out by public agencies such as the Commission for the Financial Market and the National Economic Prosecutor's Office, among others.

Types of Clients:
■ Stockbrokers, Investment Fund Administrators and other companies and entities operating in the financial market
■ Electricity generating companies
■ Mining companies
■ Real estate companies
■ Construction companies
■ Companies and people that develop agricultural activities
■ Companies and individuals providing professional or commercial services
■ State agencies and state-owned companies
■ Non-profit corporations and foundations

Languages: English, Spanish