Alan Krausz Bitrán
Commercial area director
alankrausz@aem.cl
Corporate Area Partner having developed his practice focused on Corporate Law/Consumer Law/Mergers and Acquisitions. Advises local and foreign clients with extensive experience in the field of Consumer Rights Protection, having advised important private sector companies as well as the Government of Chile.
Also advises families and business groups in the corporate organization of their businesses, participating in their boards of directors and in the succession structuring of their assets.
Academic Degrees, Courses:
Postgraduate Studies:
- 2003-2004 «Master in Business Law» Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
Diplomas:
- 2014 Certification «Accounting and Finance Program for Directors College» Stanford University-UC, Rock Center for Corporate Governance.
- 2013 Certification «Directors College Chile 2013» Stanford University-UC, Rock Center for Corporate Governance.
- 2013 Diploma, «Financial Consumer Protection,» Legal Publishing.
- 2011 Diploma, «Business Taxation,» Thomson Reuters.
- 2010 Diploma, «New Approaches in Corporate Advisory,» Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago.
- 2002 Specialization Course, «Contracts and their Taxation,» taught at Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago.
- 1997-1998 Diploma in «International Economic Relations with a focus on Chile’s International Insertion,» Universidad Mayor, Santiago.
Degree:
- 2003 Lawyer’s Degree conferred by the Supreme Court.
- 2000-2001 Law, Universidad Bolivariana, Santiago.
- 1986-1990 Law, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
Courses:
- 2017 Certificate «What Good Directors Do,» IESE.
- 2016 Certificate «Introduction to Basic Care and Management,» University of Florida.
- 2010 Seminar «Financial Consumer Protection,» organized by Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
- 2010 Course «Certification in e-learning Technologies,» taught by Universidad Uniacc.
- 2009 Course «Andragogy and Adult Education,» taught by Universidad Uniacc.
- 2005 Seminar «Update on Tort Law,» taught by Universidad de Los Andes.
- 2005 Seminar «Economic Regulatory Power versus the rights of the regulated,» taught by Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
- 2004 Seminar «Modifications to the Consumer Protection Law,» taught by Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
- 2004 Seminar «Modifications to the Consumer Protection Law,» taught by Universidad Diego Portales.
- 2004 Seminar «Modifications to the Consumer Protection Law,» taught by the Santiago Chamber of Commerce.
- 2004 Seminar «Insurance Law: New Trends and the Chilean Chapter of the International Association for Insurance Law, AIDA Chile,» taught by the Faculty of Law of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
- 2003 Seminar «Liability for Defective Products,» in the XV edition on modifications to the Civil and Commercial Codes organized by the Fueyo Foundation.
- 2003 Seminar «Tax Reforms,» taught at Universidad del Desarrollo.
- 2003 Seminar «Class Actions,» taught at Universidad Finis Terrae.
Publications, awards, distinctions, and/or memberships:
- 2011 «The Invisible Hand of SoftLaw in consumer rights protection,» Librotecnia Publishing.
- 2010 «IBC Prevention of Deceptive Advertising,» Legis Publishing.
- 2008 «Information and Advertising,» Legis Publishing, Business Law Journal, No. 12.
- 2006 «Non-Banking Credit Cards and their New Regulation,» Legis Publishing, 2006.
- Member of the Bar Association.
- Member of Lawflex.
Activities:
- 2012 Teaches a course to regional directors of the National Consumer Service (Sernac) in training carried out at Sernac on Financial Consumer Protection.
- 2011 Speaker at the first Chilean-Uruguayan Commercial Law Conference organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile.
- 2008-2009 Coordinator of the bankruptcy trustee examination process in a bidding process awarded by the Bankruptcy Superintendence to Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
- 2007-2019 Full Professor of the «Business Law» course at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
- 2005-2011 Full Professor of «Labor and Commercial Legislation» courses at Universidad Uniacc.
- 2009-2011 Full Professor of the «Commercial Law» course at Universidad Uniacc.
- 2009-2012 Full Professor of «Labor and Commercial Legislation» courses at Instituto Profesional Iacc.
- 2008 Organizes a seminar in conjunction with Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and the Bankruptcy Superintendence titled «Do We Have a Good Bankruptcy Law?»
- 2007-2008 Conducts a closed course organized by Editorial Legis Chile for Judges of Local Police Courts in the Metropolitan, Fifth, and Eighth Regions.
- 2004 Organizes, together with the Faculty of Law of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, an update seminar on modifications to the Consumer Protection Law.
Languages:
- English: Intermediate level, reading, writing, and speaking.
- Hebrew: Intermediate level, reading, writing, and speaking.