* At the present he is Dean of Universidad de Chile School of Law, so temporarily he has ceased his duties in our firm.

Pablo Ruiz-Tagle has been a partner in Larrain y Asociados since its foundation in 1994. His main practice areas are public and constitutional law, intellectual property, arbitration and comparative law. At the request of his clients he has drafted several legal opinion in matters of his specialty and participated in the defense of public and private entities before the Chilean courts, including the Constitutional Court. Also, he has provided his professional advice for the Government and Congress of the Republic of Chile and drafted bill proposals for constitutional reform and laws, and also worked in the negotiation and execution of international agreements and treaties.

He is the head of the intellectual property and information technologies group of Larrain y Asociados. This group practice on matters related to contracts and technological regulations, trademark protection, patents, copyrights, domain names and electronic commerce. In his trajectory he has acted as judge in Arbitration Commissions of the Law on Concessions and is also an Arbitrator for the resolution of conflicts of domain names under the regulations of NIC Chile.

He studied at the Faculty of Law of Universidad de Chile (LL.B.), and was admitted in 1984. Subsequently he obtained a Master's Degree in Law (LL.M.) in 1988 and a Doctoral Degree in Law at Yale University (J.S.D.).

He is a member of the Chilean Association of Industrial Property (Chilean group of AIPPI); the Inter-American Association of Industrial Property (ASIPI); the International Trademark Association (INTA); and has acted as member of the Joint Review Committee on Petitions of the Chile-Canada Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.

Mr. Ruiz-Tagle is a professor of Introduction to Law and Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Chile, where he won the award for best teacher in 1997. He has also been invited to teach at various Chilean and foreign universities, and participated as professor at the Chilean Judicial Academy since its foundation. He has written several books and published papers of his authorship in specialized journals.

Languages: Spanish and English.