Francisco Aninat

Francisco Aninat focuses his practice on the resolution of complex business disputes. His extensive experience solving conflicts combined with his economic background provide for effective and business-oriented solutions. When it comes to litigation and arbitration, Mr. Aninat advises clients before local and foreign courts, as well before domestic and international arbitration panels. His experience spans the energy, financial, construction, concessions, and technology sectors.

Background

• Some representative work includes advising and acting on behalf of a multinational energy corporation in a conflict that extended through multiple jurisdictions around the world; a public works concessionaire in a mass tort case related to the overflow of Santiago’s main river; a construction company in the expansion of a large highway; a technology company in a conflict related to the provision of technological equipment to a large hospital; several foreign investors in negotiations with the Chilean government; several cases related to shareholders disputes; several cases related to inheritance disputes; American and Colombian investors in ICSID investment-arbitration cases; a multinational corporation in a international commercial arbitration related to a solar power plants in the Chilean dessert; several universities in administrative proceedings and investigations due to audits and regulatory changes. Also, Mr. Aninat regularly performs pro bono work representing clients before local courts. 
• Before joining Bofill Escobar Silva, Abogados, Mr. Aninat worked for four years at Jones Day’s Global Disputes area of practice in Washington D.C., and as a fellow in economic and financial regulation at the World Bank’s CGAP. Before that, he worked at Barros, Court & Correa, and Aninat & Cía. 

Education

• University of Chicago, Master of Public Policy (MPP)
• Universidad de Chile, LL.B.
• Universidad de Chile, Diploma in Economics and Finance for Attorneys.

Activities

• Professor of Business Law, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (2014) 
• Mr. Aninat has been a speaker in multiple conferences on international law and dispute resolution matters, including: conferences of the American Bar Association, International Law Section (Miami, September 2012, and London, November 2013), the Peruvian Institute of Arbitration, and the Chilean Society of Private International Law.

Memberships

• Member of the Chilean Bar Association
• Member of the Roster of Arbitrators of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago (CAM Santiago); Member of the roster of Arbitrators, Court of Appeals of Santiago, Chile (2019 and 2020); ICC Chile.
• Member of the Chilean Society of Construction Law.

Publications

• Mr. Aninat has authored several publications on dispute resolution matters, including: «Recognition and enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Chile» (2012, 2016), «Disparate Treatment Of the Corporate Citizen: Stark Differences Across Borders In Multinational Lawsuits» (2014), «Litigation, Chilean Chapter » (2020).

Acknowledgments

• His experience in dispute resolution has been highlighted in Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Leader’s League, and Best Lawyers.
  

  Languages

  • English.