MARÍA JESÚS BECERRA S.
Senior Associate

PRACTICE AREAS

Criminal Litigation
Criminal Compliance
Criminal Liability of Legal Entities

INDUSTRIES

Mining
Education
Commerce
Automotive
Insurance
Health

María Jesús Becerra is a senior associate at Prieto and leads the Firm’s White-Collar Crime practice.

She has extensive experience in criminal litigation, participating in oral trials before Criminal Courts and Superior Courts of Justice, as a plaintiff and as a defense lawyer, regarding crimes of diverse nature and complexity. She has represented both companies and individuals, including in the latter case, directors, top executives, among others.Likewise, she has provided advice to national and multinational companies on compliance, crime prevention matters, criminal liability of legal entities, and in highly complex cases regarding possible crimes of fraud, corruption, and money laundering.

Her practice specializes in economic and property crimes, also having experience in medical malpractice, negligent offences, crimes against privacy, among others. Likewise, she has provided criminal advice to various industries, including, for example, mining, commerce, education, insurance, pension fund administrators, isapres, among others.

María Jesús joined Prieto on 2024. She previously worked as a senior associate leading the White-Collar Crime practice at Parraguez Marín & Del Río (2020-2023); as an associate of the White-Collar Crime department at Claro & Cía. (2016-2020); and as an associate of litigations at GFSU (2014-2015).

EDUCATION

  • MSc Crime and Criminal Justice, Leiden University (Cum Laude distinction) (2016)
  • Diploma of Oral Litigation in Criminal Matters, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2017)
  • Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (3 distinction votes (2013)

RECOGNITIONS

  • Honor Roll Award (recognition for academic excellence), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, (2011).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

  • Assistant, Department of Professional Practice in Criminal Matters, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2016 – 2017)
  • Assistant, Diploma of Oral Litigation in Criminal Matters, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2017)

PUBLICATIONS

  • “Between State Sovereignty and the Right to Liberty of Irregular Migrants”/ Edited by María Teresa De Jesús Infante Caffi. In: International Visions, N°21, Year 5, Institute of International Studies, Universidad De Chile. (2016)

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Con fecha 21 de marzo de 2024, y tras casi catorce años de discusión legislativa, se publicó en el Diario Oficial la Ley N° 21.659 sobre seguridad privada (“Ley”), que…
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