Partner

Sebastián Delpiano

EXPERIENCE

Sebastián is HD’s managing partner and founder, leading the area of capital markets and asset management, insurance and venture capital. He has a vast experience on corporate and financial matters, with special emphasis on the administration or asset management and collective investment vehicle (funds), structuring of financial products and derivatives, investment advisory, M&A, debt and/or equity issuances, IPOs, securities brokerage, as well as in advising and defending entities under supervision of the financial regulator.

Previously, joining HD, he worked as chief lawyer at Banchile Inversiones and subsequently he was a lawyer in various and recognized law firms in the country.

Since 2018 he has been accredited by the Committee for the Accreditation of Knowledge in the Securities Markets (CAMV).

He is a member of the Legal Committee of the Chilean Association of Investment Fund Administrators.

In his academic career, he has been a professor of the Master in Tax Law on capital market taxation at Universidad Diego Portales and also a professor in the Diploma on Certification of Investment Funds at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

EDUCATION

Lawyer, Universidad de los Andes (2004).

Master in Tax Management and Direction, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2008).

RECOGNITIONS

CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS

  • Capital Markets (2019 a 2025).

LEGAL 500

  • Leading Individual in Capital Markets (2020 a 2025).
  • Venture Capital (2025).

IFLR 1000

  • Capital Markets, Banking and Finance (2020).
  • Capital Markets: Debt (2021,2022,2023,2024).

BEST LAWYERS

  • Banking and Finance Law, Capital Markets Law, Venture Capital Law (2020 a 2025).

LACCA

  • Capital Markets in Chile (2019). Approved Capital Markets private practitioners in Chile. Sebastián Delpiano: Thought Leader.
  • Capital Markets in Chile (2021).

LEADERS LEAGUE

  • Recommended in M & A y Startups & Venture Capital (2021 a 2024).
  • Recommended in Private Equity – Startups & Innovation (2025).