Fernanda Torres

Associate

ftorres@carey.cl
+56 2 2928 2213



Her practice is primarily focused on civil, commercial and environmental litigation and arbitration, before ordinary and special courts.


REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • GMAC Comercial Automotriz, a subsidiary of General Motors Financial, on its defense in a class action initiated by the SERNAC, for alleged infringement of the consumer protection law, due to the practice of extrajudicial collection.
  • Laboratorios Andrómaco and Laboratorios Silesia on a class action filed by CONADECUS for the quality failure of its contraceptive Serenata, which affected women who used said contraceptive, becoming pregnant against their will.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Teaching Assistant of Civil Law, Universidad de Chile (since 2021).
  • Teaching Assistant of Procedural Law, Universidad de Chile (since 2018).
  • Teaching Assistant of Criminal Law, Universidad de Chile (2018-2021).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Co-author of “New reporting duties regarding ESG standards and possible scenarios of shareholder litigation under Chilean law”, International Bar Association (IBA) (2023).

EDUCATION

  • Law, Universidad de Chile (Summa Cum Laude).
  • Degree in National and International Commercial Arbitration, Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and Universidad de Chile (2023).
  • Montenegro Award, granted to the best graduation average, Universidad de Chile (2019).
  • Academic Excellence Award to the best average grade in Civil Law (2019).
  • Academic Excellence Award, to the best average grade of the generation, Universidad de Chile (2018).

ADMISSIONS

  • Chile (2021).

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish.
  • English.

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