David Ovalle L.
Associate
He has been a lawyer at IVM since June 2026 and is part of the Litigation and Arbitration practice. His work focuses primarily on civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, and consumer law.
EXPERIENCE
Lawyer at H2O Abogados (2025–2026).
- Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration practice at Colombara Estrategia Legal (2024–2025).
- Judicial and civil litigation clerk at Colombara Estrategia Legal (2022–2024).
- He studied law at Diego Portales University, graduating with honors. He qualified as a lawyer in 2025.
- Intensive Program on Damages and Civil Liability, University of Buenos Aires (2023).
- Comparative Class Actions course, Stanford University (2023).
- Teaching assistant for Professor Iñigo de la Maza’s Civil Law course sequence at Diego Portales University (2021–2025).
- Coordinator of the Diego Portales University Civil Law Academy’s “Studies on Purchase and Sale” project (2024–present), which examines Supreme Court case law on purchase and sale agreements.
- Coordinating teaching assistant for the Comparative Class Actions course taught by Stanford University (2024–2025).
- Contributor to the book Contractual Moral Damages: Definition, Applicability, Function, Limits, Evidence, and Amount, edited by Iñigo de la Maza.
- Author and coordinator of several academic publications on civil law.
- Languages: Spanish and English.