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Javiera is an in-house lawyer with more than 10 years of corporate experience working closely with the business and innovation areas in regulated industries, enabling their sustainable development through legal advice.

She has relevant experience in the financial market, logistics industry and pharmaceutical industry. During her years of experience, she has integrated multidisciplinary teams for the design and execution of projects and the strategy to be followed, including commercial initiatives, innovation and compliance advice.

Previously, she worked as Legal & Compliance BP at Roche (2021-2023), New Products and Business Lawyer, and Corporate & Investment Banking and Retail Banking at BBVA (2014 – 2018).

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Josefina is a lawyer specialized in corporate law, with vast work experience in legal departments and with multidisciplinary teams in international companies in the areas of mass consumption, health and energy. She has extensive knowledge in the drafting and negotiation of contracts, compliance with corporate obligations, labor law, analysis and legal risk assessment.

In addition, her career has been highlighted by the leadership and management of several large projects, such as corporate restructurings and collective bargaining, along with a solid track record in large international companies with global reporting, particularly in the UK.

Previously she served as corporate counsel senior manager at British American Tobacco (2018-2021), as prosecution lawyer at BUPA (2017-2018) and at Metrogas (2013-2017).  In 2011 and 2012 she worked as corporate counsel at Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana.

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María Gracia concentrates her practice in compliance, regulatory compliance, governance and administrative sanctioning procedures. Previously, during the year 2021, she worked as a lawyer in the corporate and real estate area at Artigas & Cía.

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María Laura joined the Compliance team as a junior associate in September 2024. Previously, she worked as legal counsel for Huawei and Schneider Electric.

On the academic side, she was an assistant professor of Commercial Law I, II and III of the Business Law department of her faculty between December 2018 and December 2020.

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Soledad has over 12 years of experience in corporate, real estate and company law matters, leading the day-to-day advice and management of the legal needs of companies and real estate companies in relation to the development of their businesses and projects.

She joined HD Group in 2024 as a senior associate in the Real Estate, Engineering, Construction and Project Finance practice.

Previously, she was a senior associate at Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil Abogados.

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Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica.

 

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Nicolas has focused his practice in the capital market area. He is permanently advising local fund managers regarding both the incorporation of either public or private investment funds, feeder funds and mutual funds and on the day-to-day operations of said funds and its managers. He has a permanent interaction with the Chilean Commission for the Financial Market.

Moreover, during the past years, Nicolás has directly assisted General Managers and Boards of Directors of different fund managers, on their daily business and also advising them before special situations or in case of inquires of the regulators, where deep knowledge of the capital market is needed. He also regularly advises on the investment structuring of the funds.

In addition, he actively advises stockbrokers and securities agents in their daily operations, considering both the legal and commercial implications of the advice. He also has experience in issuance of debt securities that can be publicly offered in Chile.

Previously, he worked as a Legal Compliance Officer at Redbanc S.A. (2013-2014), advising management and various units on corporate, real estate and contract matters involving clients and providers.

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Attorney, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2009).

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Nicolás has an extensive experience in litigation and arbitral procedures, with an emphasis on tort and contract trials, representing local and multinational companies defending their interests. 

Previously, he worked as an associate at Parraguez & Marín focusing on matters related to civil, commercial litigation and administrative disputes (2022). Between 2017 and 2020 he worked as an associate in the litigation and insurance practice area at Ríos, Ramdohr, García Abogados.

 In academic matters, he works as assistant teacher in the procedural law department of Universidad Diego Portales (2018 – present).

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Paulina specializes in corporate matters and information technology. In the corporate area, she has advised clients on due diligence processes and mergers and acquisitions in general, as well as having served as inhouse counsel for a technology company with regional reach. In matters related to information technology, she has helped manage legal risks in the implementation of technological solutions, contracting SaaS and IaaS services, public tenders, contentious administrative law, execution of complex technological projects (cloud brokerage, cloud computing services, and infrastructure in general), and has negotiated contracts with key technological players (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, SAP and among others). Additionally, she has advised companies in the participation of the Program for the Attraction of International R&D Centers of Excellence for Competitiveness 2.0 of Innova Chile, Corfo.

Previously, she served as director of the information technology area at Pagbam Schwencke (2020-2022), as inhouse counsel at Tivit Chile SpA (2012-2022), as a senior associate at Aninat, Schwencke y Cía (2012-2020) and as junior associate at Toro Cruzat y Cía (2010-2012).

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Rodrigo joined HD’s Compliance team in August 2023, specializing in criminal matters.

Previously, he carried out his professional practice at the Public Defender’s Office, in the adolescent criminal responsibility unit.

In the academic aspect, Rodrigo was an assistant at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in the Public International Law course led by Professor Álvaro Paul (2018-2021); assistant at the same university in the Criminal Law course led by Professor María Elena Santibáñez and Claudio Feller (2020-2022); and assistant at the same university in the International Criminal Law course led by Professor José Ignacio Escobar (2022).

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Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2023).

Course (MOOC) “Corporate Governance. Myths and Realities”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (March 2023).

Course (MOOC) “Children’s Human Rights – An Interdisciplinary Introduction”, Université de Genève (December 2022).

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Sebastián joined HD as a junior associate in the Capital Markets and Tax areas.

He previously worked as a tax and corporate lawyer at Grant Thornton Chile.

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