EXPERIENCIA
Andrea Von Chrismar has been counsel of Prieto since 2021 and co-heads the Firm’s Antitrust team, together with Benjamín Grebe.
She is part of the Firm´s Antitrust team since 2020 and has experience in the areas of competition law and regulation in different industries.
Andrea earned her law degree from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, on 2007. She has a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc. in Regulation, 2018) and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Master’s in Business Law, 2015). Additionally, she earned a Diploma in Public Economic Law at Universidad de Chile in 2016 and a Diploma in Competition at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2011. In 2022 she completed the Agile Leadership diploma at eClass Advanced.
Before joining the Firm, she previously worked as senior lawyer on regulatory and competition matters at Quintanilla Busel Niedmann (2018-2020) , as lawyer on the Anti-Cartel and Antitrust Divisions at the National Economic Prosecutors Office (2012 – 2017) and as associate at Cariola Diez Pérez-Cotapos y Cía (2010- 2012).
Andrea has been teaching courses in regulation of public services and competition at the School of Law of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and at the Diploma of Regulation of the Electricity Sector of the Universidad de Chile and in the Master in Regulation at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. In the academic field, she has also spoken at several seminars and is an active member in Red ProCompetencia.
Languages: Spanish and English.
Publications
- “Energy transition and vertical integration in the electricity market”, Actualidad y desafíos regulatorios: XXII Jornadas de Derecho de Energía, ReDAE PUC N° 39 (enero-junio 2024), pp. 320-329. https://redae.uc.cl/index.php/REDAE/article/view/81866/62482
- “Coordinación regulatoria en el sector eléctrico chileno y función de monitoreo de la competencia”, Investigaciones CeCo (junio, 2023), https://centrocompetencia.com/coodinacion-regulatoria-sector-electrico-chileno-monitoreo-competencia/
- “Examinando la relación entre estrategias de enforcement y la percepción acerca del rol de una agencia de competencia: el caso de la Fiscalía Nacional Económica”, Investigaciones CeCo (julio, 2020), https://centrocompetencia.com/examinando-la-relacion-entre-estrategias-de-enforcement-y-la-percepcion-acerca-del-rol-de-una-agencia-de-competencia-el-caso-de-la-fiscalia-nacional-economica/
- Digital Platforms and conglomerate risks: challenges for competition Authorities in ibero-america in the analysis of Concentration Operations, Themis Revista de Derecho 79 (enero-junio 2021), pp. 359-372.
EDUCATION
Law degree from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2009.
Master of Science in Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2018.
Master’s in business law, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2015.
Diploma in Agile Leadership, eClass Advanced, 2022.
Diploma in Public Economic Law, Universidad de Chile, 2016.
Diploma in Competition, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2011.