Regulatory Alert: National Economic Prosecutor’s Office publishes market study on public purchases
November 5, 2020 | By Felipe Bahamondez, Sofía O´Ryan y Macarena Alliende. The chilean antitrust authority, the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (Fiscalía Nacional Económica or FNE) published the Final Report of a Market Study on Public Purchases, in which it analyzes the conditions of competition in purchases made through the public purchases mechanism, ChileCompra (regulated by Law No. 19,886). In […]
Read moreLegal Alert Covid-19: New Law Facilitates Access to Medicines during Pandemics
September 23, 2020 / By Tomás Muñoz On September 22th, 2020, Act N° 21.267 was officially published. The purpose of the Act is to facilitate access to medicine by extending the validity of medical prescriptions that were given before or during a pandemic officially decreed by the Chilean Government. In particular, this is achieved by extending the prescription validity, which […]
Read moreLegal Alert: Keys tu understanding the application of VAT/GST to digital services in Chile
July 9, 2020 / By Rodrigo Álvarez, Germán Vargas y Gonzalo Zegers Law Nº 21.210, which Modernized our Tax Legislation, was published in the Official Gazette on February 24th, 2020. This law strengthened the process of technological and digital transformation of the Chilean Tax Authority (hereafter “Servicio de Impuestos Internos” or “SII”). This process is aimed at providing tools that enable the SII […]
Read moreLegal Alert Covid-19: Regulation on occupational safety and health conditions for remote working or teleworking.
July 7, 2020 / By Luis Parada, Juan Pablo Mesías y Alfonso Bustamante On July 3rd, 2020, the Official Gazette published a Regulation that establishes “Specific Conditions on Occupational Safety and Health at Work” (the “Regulation”), applicable to workers who provide their services via “Telework” or “Remote Work” according to the newly incorporated Labor Code provisions. The Regulation establishes a […]
Read moreLegal Alert: Financial Portability Act
June 9, 2020 / By Mauricio Halpern, Roberta Andreani y Vicente Vergara On 9 June, 2020 was enacted the Financial Portability Act that aims to promote and simplify financial portability for individuals and micro and small companies. To this end, the Law considers portability to be an inalienable right of customers and provides three main mechanisms: 1. Two types of […]
Read moreLegal Alert: Law establishing the limitation of liability for loss, theft or fraud
June 1, 2020 / By Paulo Larrain, Ricardo López y Felipe Riedel On May 29, 2020, Law No. 21,234 (hereinafter the ”Law”) was published in the Official Gazette, which amended Law No. 20,009, changing the name of the latter to “Establishment of a regime of limitation of liability for holders or users of payment cards and electronic transactions in case […]
Read moreLegal Alert Covid-19: Short Law amending the Employment Protection Law
June 1, 2020 / By Luis Parada y Alfonso Bustamante We inform that on June 1, 2020 Law No. 21,232 (hereinafter the “Short Law”), which amends Law No. 21,277 on Employment Protection (hereinafter the “LPE”) was published in the Official Gazette. Please find below the most relevant changes of this new law: 1. The current regime for the payment of […]
Read moreMerger control: distressed M&A in the time of Covid-19
19 May 2020 By: Nicolas Teijeiro / Marcus Vinicius Bitencourt / Bruna B. Rocha / Renata Dalcol de Amorim Ferreira / Carolina Bawlitza / Maria Claudia Martinez Beltran / Isabel Gallástegui / Jorge Benejam / Daniel Flores / Luis Vargas / Rafael Urday Several antitrust issues have taken center stage during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Issues such as […]
Read moreLegal Alert: Ministry of Health introduces e-commerce in medicines
May 8, 2020 / By Paulo Larraín y Tomás Muñoz On May 7, 2020, it was published in the Official Gazette Decree No. 58 of 2019 of the Ministry of Health, which entered into inmediate force. This regulation introduces electronic commerce of drugs and allows pharmacies to sell them through electronic means, complying with the requirements established for such purpose, […]
Read moreLegal Alert Covid-19: Law that increases the capital of the Small Business Guarantee Fund (FOGAPE) and temporarily softens its requirements
May 5, 2020 / By Mauricio Halpern y Vicente Vergara On April 24, 2020, Law No. 21,229 (the “Law“) was published in the Official Gazette. Its main purpose is to provide an emergency capitalization to the FOGAPE and to temporarily relax the requirements to qualify for financing, until April 30, 2021. The FOGAPE (an acronym for the initials in Spanish, […]
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