Bitlaw launches Fintech practice and adds a new partner

Chilean law firm Bitlaw has announced the launch of its new Fintech practice, following the addition of new partner Tomás Pintor Willcock (pictured), who will lead the practice.

The new area will focus on boosting the development of the industry through legal, regulatory and strategic consulting services to technology companies that provide financial services, such as payment and remittance services, digital banking, lending, investment and savings, insurance, among other innovative business models in this industry, whether they belong to the startup world or to traditional financial institutions.

Tomás is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes and holds an MBA from Universidad de Chile. He has represented the Chilean Government in international instances related to Fintech and Open Finance regulation, standing out as an expert in financial regulation.

Previously, Tomás served as an advisor to the Capital Markets coordination of the Ministry of Finance, actively participated in the drafting of the Fintech Law and was in charge of its passage through the National Congress. Likewise, and from his role at the Ministry of Finance, he led the drafting and processing of several bills related to the capital markets, and in the implementation of significant financial market public policies.

Previously, he also worked as a lawyer in the capital markets areas of the law firms Barros & Errázuriz Abogados and Honorato Delaveau, and is currently an academic at the Postgraduate Schools of the Law School of the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad del Desarrollo.

Since May of this year, Bitlaw is a partner of FinteChile, the Association of Fintech Companies in Chile, which includes more than 200 entities in the industry.