Matías Vergara > Carey > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Full-service legal giant Carey fields a nine-strong team that acts for insurers, reinsurers, brokers and insureds on regulatory issues, underwriting and contentious work. With ‘extensive experience in the insurance market’, it consistently advises major international businesses on the structuring of significant bancassurance alliances in the local market, as well as portfolio transfers. On the litigation front, the multi-disciplinary practice is able to leverage the firm’s specialists in construction, energy, investments, data protection, finance and labour during high-stakes losses, loss adjustment processes, disputes, litigation, and arbitration. The practice’s principal figures are Matías Vergara, who acts in major insurance disputes, as well as assisting domestic and international insurance companies on their day-to-day matters; Pablo Iacobelli, an expert in insurance companies’ regulatory corporate issues and insurance-related M&A deals; and Marcos Ríos, whose broad transactional practice comprises insurance and reinsurance work. Key support comes from specialist senior associate Jorge Soto whose past experience includes time at Solunion Seguros de Credito (Mapfre Seguros- Euler Hermes).