The Legal 500 > Latin America > Chile > Compliance

A member or the Ibero-American Group for Compliance, Carey fields a small but experienced, four-strong compliance and anti-corruption team led by litigator Ricardo Reveco and corporate group co-head Guillermo Acuña. The practice typically assists clients with the prevention of corruption or money laundering, the negotiation of specialised contractual provisions, and the design of compliance due diligence processes for M&A, joint ventures and other transactional matters. Alongside the firm's white-collar crime practice, the team also represents clients facing criminal enforcement actions, and has successfully defended legal entities and individuals in high-stake cases involving alleged bribery, money laundering and influence trafficking. Support at associate level is provided by the highly experienced senior Pablo Albertz, who joined the firm from Veracitas Compliance in 2017 and has a masters' in criminal law. The firm has also been the Chilean legal partner of TRACE Anti-Corruption Bribery Systems since 2014.

Fielding a six-lawyer compliance unit branded as AZ Compliance that combines corporate law with criminal litigation, Albagli Zaliasnik specialises in anti-corruption investigations and crime prevention models. The practice's scope includes diagnostic audits, internal investigations, due diligence, compliance programmes and training. Other areas of focus are compliance-related data privacy, consumer issues, governance, risk management, and healthcare life sciences and environmental matters. Managing partner Rodrigo Albagli developed the firm's  compliance practice, which is now co-led by senior associates Jaime Winter, a specialist in compliance regulation, and Eduardo Anguita, who arrived from Barros & Errázuriz in April 2019 and focuses on compliance program implementation and internal reviews and audits. Notably, the firm's other name partner, Gabriel Zaliasnik is president of the Criminal Procedural Code Reform Commission (established 2018), whose remit includes reform of key anti-corruption legislation, Law 20.393.

Barros & Errázuriz's sizeable team undertakes compliance assessments and implements best practices for its corporate clients as well as  evaluating corruption and corporate governance risks, both legal and reputational in relation to M&A and financing deals. The compliance practice's broad offering also covers crime prevention, capital markets, data protection, consumer protection, and competition, labour, public and environmental law. In addition, it assists with adopting measures once infractions are identified, defending clients in proceedings involving compliance violations. The core of the team is made up of insurance and finance regulatory expert Javier Díaz, who is also a corporate compliance and governance specialist; firm managing partner and all-round corporate advisor Cristián Barros, and recently promoted capital markets and compliance director Juan Cristóbal Schmidt.

DLA Piper Chile's broad practice is co-led by Diego Noguera and the recently promoted Mauricio Halpern (who can draw on his in-house experience of compliance management), and handles regulatory compliance assessments, compliance control mechanisms, the design of compliance programmes, criminal liability prevention models and compliance certifications. The practice is particularly experienced in compliance matters involving the forestry, mining and heavy machinery, retail, energy and publishing sectors. The team's abilities are complemented by the firm's active litigation department and the office's recent initiation of a white-collar practice, led by counsel Ignacio Schwerter, who joined in September 2019 from Cortés & Rodriguez.

Led by Rafael Collado since its inception in 2013, FerradaNehme houses one of the oldest compliance practices in the country. Collado, who became a partner of the dispute resolution and compliance practices back in 2018, has both civil and criminal litigation experience as well as deep compliance and criminal-prevention expertise. Building on the firm's first class reputation in those legal sectors a public law aspect -such as competition law and environmental matters- the four-strong team has developed a full-service compliance offering that undertakes preventative training and advisory; forensic investigation, monitoring and review; and white-collar litigation across all relevant areas, including consumer law and data privacy and protection. Key support comes from associate Lucía Álvarez, who with a Master's degree in criminal law and is particularly focused on matters related to Ley 20.393 on criminal responsibility (and its successive revisions).

Guerrero Olivos' four-strong compliance department's offering includes business model legal risk assessments; the ongoing assessments of potential breaches; periodic reports regarding regulations and legal alerts; the drafting of internal codes of conduct and corporate regulations and procedures, and training programmes. Clients also benefit from the team's work with the firm's corporate governance, competition, environment, tax, labour, finance and regulatory teams, on anti-corruption, corporate criminal liability, anti-money laundering, industry-specific regulations, lobbying regulations, and freedom of information law (FOIA) issues. Pedro Pellegrini is the lead adviser for compliance matters.

Full-service law firm Prieto Abogados fields a four-strong compliance team that is expert in transaction-related matters, internal auditing, administrative sanctioning, compliance policy drafting, and the design of internal compliance and crime prevention systems. Assistance with compliance programs is also provided in relation to antitrust, labour law and environmental matters, and the group is able to leverage off the firm's expertise in the energy, food, insurance, real estate and private equity sectors. Lead compliance partner José Andrés Pascual Moreno's broad practice covers criminal liability, reporting obligations and the establishment of viable compliance structures. Diego Madariaga provides support at associate level.

The four-strong team at Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos is experienced in advising both on the prevention of - or response to - criminal and administrative infractions, such as internal frauds, prosecuting authorities' interrogations and defrauding of third parties; it also assists with compliance models. Clients benefit from the practice working in conjunction with the firm's tax, IP, labour, regulatory and litigation departments, as well as particular sector expertise in food, medical devices, IT, transport and mining. Advising on compliance, criminal liability and associated litigation and arbitration, Jorge Boldt is the key contact.

Urenda, Rencoret, Orrego y Dörr's five-strong department assists with internal compliance-related corporate policies and codes surrounding anti-corruption, competition law, data protection, securities, and labor and environmental laws. International clients are also assisted (on an ongoing or recurrent basis) with the adaptation of their Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act-related compliance programs to the Chilean context. Alberto Rencoret stands out for labour law-related compliance matters; and Nicholas Mocarquer provides compliance advice on anti-corruption, competition law and data protection.