Biography
Chilean practitioner and academic with two decades of experience in the fields of competition and regulatory law.
Nicole Nehme is a graduate of the University de Chile (BA in Law, 1991–95), where she was class valedictorian. In 2000, she set up her own firm (FerradaNehme). Today, her firm is one of the largest and most prestigious in Chile, and Prof. Nehme herself is widely recognised among the top competition and regulatory law practitioners and as the best female litigator across all areas in her native Chile.
Her litigation practice is extensive and covers proceedings before Chile’s Competition Court (created in 2004), as well as lower and higher Courts, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Tribunal of Chile. She has been involved as Counsel in landmark cases involving antitrust, civil, commercial and economic issues in a broad array of industries including telecoms, mining, banking, electricity, fishing, foods, ports and retail, among others.
Nicole Nehme’s advisory practice provides expert opinions on competition, regulation and strategic planning to Ministries and other state institutions in Chile and other Latin American countries. Client and peer reviews of her work have praised her for her ability to delve through complex issues —such as the technicalities of each market and the economics of regulation— and combine private and public aspects of the law.
In 2011, she became Associate Professor at the University of Chile Law Faculty. As an academic, she has contributed to the modernisation of syllabuses in Economic Law and their adaptation to the dynamic reality of markets and institutions. Her Economic Law class is one of the Faculty’s most oversubscribed courses. She also teaches a new course on Competition and New Technologies. She guest-lectures in other universities, in Chile and abroad, and has been a Visiting Professor at UC Davis School of Law.
Nicole Nehme has authored and co-authored several books, chapters in books, articles and papers on issues of competition, regulation and public policy. Sought-after as a speaker by business associations, civil society organisations and think-tanks alike, she gives many presentations each year in matters ranging from public policy to female leadership and legal education. In an effort to contribute to the understanding of economic issues by the general public, she also writes columns for newspapers and magazines, and is featured as an expert commentator by media outlets.
Prof. Nehme is a member of the Chilean Bar and the International Bar Association. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.