Tomás Ovalle
Associate
Spanish
English
Advising on criminal compliance, corporate compliance and white-collar criminal law.
Tomás focuses his practice on criminal and corporate compliance, specializing in compliance, anti-money laundering (AML), economic criminal law, and internal corporate investigations.
He is an expert in the design, management, and review of corporate compliance, anti-corruption, criminal compliance (especially under the Economic Crimes Law), and AML compliance programs.
He has led and participated in multiple internal corporate investigations into internal fraud in companies. He also participates in M&A processes, identifying corporate criminal liability risks and evaluating the adequacy of compliance programs.
Before joining Cuatrecasas, Tomás worked in the compliance practice of a leading Chilean firm in that area and in criminal law. He has also worked as a lawyer for a compliance and anti-corruption program certification company and in the criminal litigation area of a national firm.
Previously, he was an assistant in the Postgraduate Diploma in Compliance and Governance at the UC Executive Class and an assistant in the criminal area of the UC Legal Clinic, both at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Specialties
Education
Course in Internal Corporate Investigations
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2025Diploma in White-collar Criminal and Corporate Law
Universidad de Chile, 2022Bachelor of Laws
(With academic exchange at Maastricht University and minor in Public Policy)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2019