‘Characterised by its commitment to clients’, the five-member data privacy team at full-service firm Barros & Errázuriz has significant experience in drafting and implementing privacy policies. The practice’s expertise includes reviewing a range of agreements involving personal data transfers, and analysing the legal implications of clients’ business models in Chile. The group was recently particularly active in relation to Chile’s December 2024-enacted personal data legislation, which enhances personal data protection standards in line with European regulation; and the country’s newly-introduced cybersecurity law that requires companies to report incidents involving personal data to the newly-established National Cybersecurity Agency. Recent mandates include assisting American technology company Roku with improving its privacy policies, so as to ensure compliance with local data privacy regulations. With over 25 years’ experience in TMT matters, José Ignacio Ovalle is an experienced personal data protection practitioner; while former chief legal adviser at the Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Andrés Rodríguez, focuses on telecoms, IT and data privacy mandates. In the firm’s associate ranks, Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/Europe), Magdalena Rojas assists with the adapting of clients’ processes and contracts to the applicable personal data protection legislation; and Fernanda Irrazabal is another key lawyer in the telecoms, technology and data protection group.

The nine-strong data protection team at full-service firm Carey routinely advises companies on their privacy and data security policies and procedures. Home to specialists in cybersecurity and technology, in addition to privacy, consumer protection and compliance practice, the practice has significant experience in B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) matters. Alongside its advice on domestic data protection regulation, the practice covers privacy by design, data processing agreements, employees’ use of technological devices, cookie policies, legitimate interest tests and international data transfers. Other areas of focus range from codes of conducts and implementing cybersecurity tools, to assessing binding corporate rules, privacy policies, and terms and conditions of use. The practice’s experience additionally includes assisting with drafting Chile’s main privacy and cybersecurity bills, as well as the formation of cybersecurity bodies and organisations in Chile; and its industry expertise encompasses the retail, financial, fintech, insurance, technology, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. The department is co-led by Guillermo Carey, an adviser on data privacy matters, as well as IP, life sciences, and licensing, distribution and franchise agreements (among others); and counsel José Ignacio Mercado, a highly-regarded privacy, data protection and cybersecurity specialist. Associate-to-note Elias Mohor‘s experience includes data protection assessments for foundations, non-governmental organisations and trade associations.

With ‘expertise in personal data matters that is very difficult to find elsewhere’, Magliona Abogados' eight-strong data protection practice assists with drafting, implementing and enforcing privacy policies, in relation to image rights, the right to honour and privacy, and the protection and commercial exploitation of images and other privacy-related assets. Its client base ranges from media, telecoms, e-commerce and technology clients, to data centre businesses; recent mandates include advising on implementation processes for Chile’s December 2024-enacted personal data legislation. The department’s key practitioners are: Claudio Magliona, who, alongside data protection work, advises on corporate law, financing, technology, telecoms, entertainment law, along with intellectual and industrial property; M&A and consumer law specialist Giovanni Donati; and Nicolás Yuraszeck P, who focuses on new technologies, IP and telecoms law. Beyond the partnership at director level, Carlos Araya advises on the production of films, his assistance including both rights’ acquisitions and the exploitation of audiovisual works; Bárbara Reyes, an adviser on privacy, technology law, cybersecurity and the management of governmental relations; and Rodrigo Valenzuela, whose workload covers entertainment matters, new technologies and intellectual and industrial property. Notable growth for the practice includes the February 2025 promotion of corporate law expert Karla Cid to partner.

The five-member technology, cybersecurity and data privacy practice at Alessandri & Compañía Abogados assists clients with both adapting to new regulatory standards and advising on regulatory risks. ‘Technically very good and always up to date with what's happening in other jurisdictions’, clients additionally benefit from the group’s leveraging of the firm’s specialisms in IP, corporate law, finance, litigation, tax and labour matters; its sector expertise ranges from healthcare, banking, financial services, insurance, retail and food and beverage, to fintech, education, real estate and entertainment (among others). Recent mandates include advising Corporación Nacional del Cobre (Codelco) on compliance with Chile’s December 2024-enacted data protection legislation; and assisting gender diversity foundation, Fundación Iguales, with drafting a privacy policy for its new technological platform. Following the October 2025 departure of former practice head Macarena Gatica, the firm has moved swiftly to hire Carla Ilanes - formerly a counsel at DLA Piper Chile, whose trajectory also includes time in the public sector at the digital governance division of MINSEGPRES. She will co-head the practice with Rodrigo Velasco A (who also heads up the firm's technology and IP practices) and has particularly experience in data protection-related litigation. Illanes arrives accompanied by Elisa Matta (data protection, cybersecurity & AI) who joins an associate team consisting of Jaime Urzúa and María Ignacia Ormeño who both advise companies on the implementation of personal data protection and cybersecurity programmes - particularly in the insurance, health, retail and technology sectors.

DLA Piper Chile’s data privacy and protection experts in Santiago advise on compliance with Chile’s data protection laws and regulations, as well as data protection impact and legitimate interest assessments. A fast-growing area for the firm, the team also assists with all aspects of organisations’ data processing, along with data breach responses, notification obligations, risk assessments and mitigation. Other key areas range from evaluating the impact of new technologies - such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, biometrics and blockchain - on data privacy; negotiating agreements, providing employee training; and advising on international data transfers, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The data privacy practice group’s principal figures are technology specialist Jorge Timmermann, an adviser on data privacy, along with fintech, open banking and digital payments; and counsel and data protection and information security expert Carla Illanes, who ‘provides very specific and useful legal opinions’, and focuses on data collection and processing, designing and implementing privacy and security policies, audits and risk assessments, data transfer strategies, and compliance programmes. The practice group was notably strengthened in October 2025 when the firm hired Macarena Gatica - formerly data privacy practice head at Alessandri & Compañía Abogados - who advises across data protection, technology, cybersecurity and e-commerce.

The IP, technology and data group practice at Albagli Zaliasnik covers the implementation of Chile’s data protection legislation. The team is experienced in audits and data mapping, data processing compliance, infringement prevention programmes, adapting privacy policies, and data protection officer services. It also assists with personal data transfer-related hirings, M&A-related database due diligence, personal data protection training, and personal data disputes. The ‘completely reliable’ group additionally advises on product-related privacy impact assessments, database usage legality reviews, and record processing activities. Department head Eugenio Gormáz is a highly-regarded IP specialist; technology director ( an October 2024 recruit and member of the San Miguel Court of Appeals), Ivonne Bueno, advises public and private entities on personal data protection matters; and the workload of senior associate Antonia Nudman also encompasses data protection work. In 2024, former director Francisca Franzani and associate Constanza Pasarin left the firm in May and March, respectively.

Boutique law firm Bitlaw is home to experts in privacy, fintech and new technology-related contracting, as well as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and e-commerce; moreover, in addition to technology, the practice has notable financial and retail sector expertise. The group is jointly led at founding-partner level by Paulina Silva, a longstanding adviser to company clients on privacy (and its management), along with cybersecurity and e-commerce; and Javiera Sepúlveda, who ‘demonstrates solid subject matter knowledge’ and specialises in privacy, technology contracting, software protection strategies, electronic signatures, e-commerce, and IP. In the associate team, senior María José Díaz specialises in privacy matters.

Fielding team members who are certified in cloud services, Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos' data privacy group is best known for its technology credentials. The 14-strong department advises significant clients from the health, education and financial sectors on personal data issues, including compliance with the December 2024-enacted data protection legislation. Rejoining the firm in June 2024 (from financial-sector technology company Redbanc), the wide-ranging expertise of technology, privacy and media group head Carolina Flisfisch includes, data privacy mandates. In the associate pool, senior Gabriel Pensa advises on data protection; while Eduardo Vilches focuses on technology, cybersecurity and privacy issues, including personal data and information security.

Guerrero Olivos' eight-member data privacy group comprises experts in regulatory, corporate and technology law, as well as cross-border transactions where data privacy plays a key role. ‘Characterised by its technical expertise’, the practice recently assisted with the compliance side to Chile's newly-enacted Data Protection Law; examples include advising healthcare software business Dedalus on adapting its global privacy framework to Chile’s new legal standards, the assistance requiring the review of privacy policies and data governance protocols. The team also advised food company Empresas Carozzi on its data protection-related compliance transformation. With longstanding experience in advising TMT companies, Juan Enrique Allard's practice covers data privacy, along with telecoms, IT, cybersecurity and new technology platforms. In the senior associate group, recent highlights for IP specialist Diego Morandé include spearheading the creation of the Data Protection Trade Association, such association established at the firm’s office and involving participation by both public and private sector organisations.

Well known for handling a range of IT and telecoms matters, CMS Carey & Allende acts for both domestic and overseas clients on Chile’s data protection legislation. In relation to international clients, the team assists with adapting and implementing data protection policies in Chile with regard to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Heading up the practice, Ignacio Errazquin is a telecoms expert who is also experienced in data protection-related public policy and regulatory issues. In 2024, former partner Diego Rodríguez and associate Isidora Rencoret departed the firm in April and August, respectively.

FerradaNehme‘s four-member practice has extensive experience in the application of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The firm, which also fields specialists in Chile’s recently-enacted Data Protection Law, is experienced in negotiating data processing agreements and performing data protection impact assessments. It also advises on legitimate interest and transfer impact assessments, along with preparing processing activity records and drafting privacy policies. With ‘extensive practical experience in the field’, the practice has further developed risk matrixes to identify, assess, and prioritise data protection risks. In addition to her litigation experience, pharmaceutical, education and technology sector expert Stella Muñoz  routinely advises on data protection-related compliance issues; and senior associate Bernarda Muñoz, who ‘provides a professional, friendly and first-class service’, assists with EU-related personal data protection work.

Specialist new technology, personal data protection and digital regulation law firm H&Co Abogados has ‘deep and comprehensive knowledge of data protection practices’. The practice acts for clients from the financial services, retail, education, media, transport, mining, energy and pharmaceutical sectors on data protection matters. Focused on the personal data that is handled by companies and institutions, the five-member team’s assistance includes the provision of tailored regulatory compliance models.  ‘One of the most respected voices in the personal data field’, firm founder and department head Felipe Harboe has significant experience in advising large companies in Chile and abroad on data protection. The practice of senior associate and digital regulation expert Jose Miguel Catepillan encompasses data protection-related regulatory compliance, as well as risk mitigation work.

The five-member data protection team at full-service firm Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría is home to TMT, corporate and regulated markets specialists. The group’s track record includes advising Ford on personal data protection matters, while other notable clients include SMU, Mondelēz International and the International Institute of Culinary Arts and Services. The practice is led by TMT and energy sector expert Eduardo Escalona, who focuses on the economic regulation of public services along with co-leading the firm’s digital desk initiative. In the associate ranks, Constanza Azócar advises local and international clients on personal data protection.

Urenda, Rencoret, Orrego y Dörr's six-strong team handles a range of data protection work, including related labour law matters. Its expertise further covers the implications of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation; and assisting foreign entities with the development and alignment of their data privacy policies with Chile’s data protection regulations. Alberto Rencoret advises both domestic and foreign clients on labour-related data protection issues; and Nicholas Mocarquer assists international entities with the implementation of data privacy policies. At associate level, Bernardita Schmidt advises on data protection-related regulatory compliance and policy development work; Verónica Roa assists with data protection policies; and both Constanza Monckeberg and Andrea Harlen have experience regarding Chile's recently-enacted data protection law.