Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions / Capital Markets / Banking & Finance Groups. His practice focuses on advising international and local clients in M&A and private equity transactions, including tender offers, joint ventures, debt issuances, public and private offering of securities, derivatives and project development.

Bar Admissions
Chile (1996).

Education

• Law, Universidad Católica de Chile.
• LL.M., The University of Chicago Law School (2001).

• Named Lawyer of the Year in Derivatives (2024) and Structured Finance (2021), Best Lawyers.
• Recognized in Corporate and M&A, and in Capital Markets, Chambers Latin America.
• Recognized in Banking and Finance, Legal 500.
• Recognized in Corporate and M&A; Banking and Finance; Capital Markets and in Mining & Metals, Latin Lawyer 250.
• Recognized in Banking and Finance and Corporate and M&A, IFLR1000.
• Recognized in Mining, Project Finance, M&A and Corporate Governance, Who’s Who Legal.
• Recognized in Corporate and M&A, LACCA.
• Recognized in Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, Corporate Governance and Compliance, Derivatives, Insolvency and Reorganization, Investment, Private Equity, Project Finance and Development and Structured Finance, Best Lawyers.
• Recognized in Corporate M&A, Banking and Finance, and Restructuring and Insolvency, Leaders League.
• Recognized in Corporate, M&A, Banking and Finance and Capital Markets, Top Ranked Legal.
• Recognized as Best Individual Lawyer in Derivatives and in Mergers and Acquisitions in Chile, Client Choice (2012, 2014 and 2018).
• Ranked as one of the leading corporate lawyers in Chile under the age of 40, Latin Lawyer (2003).

• Member of the Board of Compañía Industrial El Volcán, VIVO, Hidronor and Chairman of Votorantim Andina. He has also been a member of the Board of SQM, Bci Corredor de Bolsa and Liberty Seguros.
• Professor of the LL.M. program at Universidad Católica de Chile (since 2010). He has also been a Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2009-2012) and Universidad del Desarrollo (2009).
• Vice Chair of the Latin America & Caribbean Committee (2024-2025) (2017-2023) and Vice Chair of the M&A Joint Ventures Committee (2020-2023) of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA).
• Member of the International Bar Association.
• Foreign Associate, Shearman & Sterling, New York (2001-2003).
• Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

• Law N°21,000 Establishes the National Financial Market Commission of Chile

  By Francisco Ugarte |March 2017

• Co-author of the Chilean chapter in ICLG - Derivatives, Global Legal Group (2020).
• Author of the Introduction "Legal innovations that foreign investors should be aware of", ILFR Guide (2014).
• Co-author of "Secured Transactions South of the Border: Chilean Highlights and Recent Developments", Conference on Consumer Finance Law, Quarterly Report, Oklahoma City University Law School (2012).
• Author of the Chilean chapter in "Essentials of Merger Review", International Antitrust Committee, American Bar Association (2009).
• Co-author of the Chilean chapter in "Merger Control Worldwide", Cambridge University Press (2005).
• Contributor in several legal reforms promoted by the Chilean government, the SVS (currently Financial Market Commission) and other private associations.