Barros Tocornal, Fernando

partner

Mail: fbarros@bye.cl

Phone: +562 23788907

Fernando, together with being a founding partner of Barros & Errázuriz, is responsible for the tax area. In addition, he actively participates in other specialties, such as the development of investment projects, implementation of corporate and financial structures, analysis of business strategies, all with a focus on the development of new business or modernization of those already existing.

 

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Education

  • Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, England (1998-1999)
  • Negotiation Courses (PIL), Harvard University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States (1993 and 1996)
  • Law School, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Degree awarded with maximum distinction (1982)

Professional Experience

  • Partner, Barros & Errázuriz (1988)
  • Senior manager, KPMG Peat Marwick (1985-1988)

Academic Activities

  • Professor of Commercial and Economic Law, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago (2000-2003)
  • Dean, Law School, Universidad Finis Terrae (2000-2003)

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English

Memberships

  • Member of the Chilean Bar Association
  • Member of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce
  • Member of the National Arbitration Center
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Pro Bono Foundation
  • Counselor of Sofofa (2005- to date)
  • Director and member of the Audit and Corporate Integrity Committees, Agrosuper S.A.
  • Director, Aquachile
  • Director, Socovesa S.A.
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors and member of the Audit Committee, Oxiquim S.A.
  • Director, Levaduras Collico S.A.
  • Director, Independencia S.A. Administradora de Fondos de Inversión
  • Director and member of the Audit Committee, Independencia Internacional Administradora General de Fondos S.A
  • Director, Company Cervecera Kunstmann S.A
  • Director and Vice President, ICARE (2005-2011)

Final Acknowledgments

  • Hall of Fame, Legal 500 2025, Tax
  • Hall of Fame, Legal 500 2025, Corparate/M&A
  • Eminent Practitioners, Chambers & Partners Global 2025, Tax
  • Eminent Practitioners, Chambers & Partners Latin America 2025, Chile, Tax
  • Notable Practitioner, General Corporate Tax, World Tax Leaders 2025, ITR World Tax
  • Band 1, Chambers High Net Worth 2024, Private Wealth Law
  • Band 6, Chambers & Partners Global 2025, Corparate/M&A
  • Leading Individual, Legal 500 2024, Corparate/M&A

Publications

  • The Defense of Antitrust, Legal Notebooks of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, n.3, 1995
  • Equality Before the Law as an Inspiring Principle of the Legal Order, Journal of Law of Universidad Finis Terrae, v.6, n.6, pp.11-18, 2002

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