Partner
/ Raúl Montero
/ Description
Raúl is the director of the Litigation and Arbitration area at Alessandri. He specializes in corporate matters and particularly in litigious matters of various kinds, such as civil processes of contractual and extra-contractual civil liability, construction, telecommunications, free competition and unfair competition, intellectual property, application of the Consumer Protection Law, arbitration, among others.
He has vast experience in corporate advisory, board assistance, corporate governance and regulated markets, especially in telecommunications and healthcare, where he participated in various transformation projects in these sectors.
In October 2021, Raúl was appointed arbitrator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center (CAM) of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CCS). Our partner is part of the general payroll and has dispute resolution tasks through mechanisms that seek to resolve conflicts peacefully. He is also arbitrator for the Appeals Court of Santiago, corresponding to the 2023-2024 Biennium.
/ Education
2016
LL.M. Commercial and Corporate Law
Universitat de Valencia
2007
Diploma in Conflict Management
Telefónica Corporate University, Barcelona
1996
Attorney
Supreme Court
/ Laboral experience
2021 – to date
Member of the List of Arbitrators of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce.
2013 – to date
Member of the Pro Bono Arbitration Program, Legal Clinics, Law School of the Diego Portales University.
2019 to 2024
Member of the Registry of Referee Judges, Court of Appeals of Santiago, Chile. Biennia 2019-2020, 2021-2022 and 2023-2024.
1998 – 2009
Manager of the Legal Area in the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Compañía de Telecomunicaciones de Chile S.A. (Telefónica-Chile).
/ Publications
2022
“Right of access to the Jurisdiction and legal fees. Justice is not free.” Article in “Principles of Civil Justice”, Bosch, Spain.
2017
“Criminal Procedure Law”, Volume I and Volume II, Third Edition updated and supplemented. Editorial Librotecnia. In co-authorship with Cristián Maturana M.
“Need to establish a standard of proof in the new Chilean civil process”. Editorial Librotecnia.
2013 and 2015
Editor of the chapter on Arbitration of the Britcham publication Doing Business.
2012
Procedural Law Magazine, Faculty of Law, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 2012, N ° 22, Civil Procedure Code Project. The Monitoring Procedure in the Civil Procedure Code Project.
2012
Maturana, Cristián / Montero, Raúl, Criminal Procedure Law. Volume I, Volume II, ISBN 978-956-346-125-1. AbeledoPerrot, Legal Publishing Chile, Thomson Reuters, Santiago, Chile.
Second Edition Updated and supplemented.
2010
Maturana, Cristián / Montero, Raúl, Criminal Procedure Law. Volume I, Volume II, ISBN 978-956-346-125-1. AbeledoPerrot, Legal Publishing Chile, Thomson Reuters, Santiago, Chile.
/ Academic activities
2021- to date
Deputy Director of the Procedural Law Department, Universidad de Chile.
2016 – 2020
Director of the Procedural Law Department, University of Chile.
He is currently an undergraduate professor of Procedural Law at Universidad de Chile and Universidad del Desarrollo. He has also taught the same subject at the Finis Terrae University, Santo Tomás University, San Sebastián University and Gabriela Mistral University.
He has been a postgraduate professor at Universidad de Chile and the Finis Terrae University.
/ Specialization courses
2023
Seminar on International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law (AU WCL), Center on International Commercial Arbitration, Inter-American Commission on Commercial Arbitration (CIAC) and Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CCS). May to July 2023
2022
International Investment Arbitration Seminar, American University Washington College of Law, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC) and Arbitration and Mediation Center of Santiago Chamber of Commerce.