Alberto Vergara

EXPERIENCE

Alberto has extensive experience advising national and international clients, companies, public agencies and non-profit organizations, in public, constitutional and administrative law, banking and financial regulation, as well as antitrust, corporate governance, consumer protection, litigation and arbitration.

He was director of Litigation, Regulation and Corporate Governance at BBVA Chile (2016-2018), and director of Litigation at Scotiabank Chile (2018-2024), being part of the team that successfully worked on the merger and integration of both banks in Chile.

In the public sector he served as coordinator of the Legal Division of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (2010-2012), co-leading the group of lawyers who advised on various matters to former President Sebastián Piñera in his first government, and then took over as prosecutor of the Ministry of Education (2012-2014) in charge of a team of over 50 people in one of the most complex ministries and with the largest budget in Chile.

He also served as an associate at the law firms Arteaga & Gorziglia (2014-2016), and Baker & Mckenzie (2003-2010), and as a solicitor at Baker & Mckenzie (1999-2002) advising national and international clients.

He is a member, since 2024, of the board of directors and of the board of directors of Iplacex S.A.

He has been a professor of the Public Law Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile for twenty years, both in undergraduate and graduate courses.

EDUCATION

• Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2003).
• Master of Laws (LLM), Northwestern University, Chicago, United States (2007).

RECOGNITIONS

THE LEGAL 500 GC POWER LIST.

• Recognized among the most outstanding In-House lawyers in Chile in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022.