Mr José Luis Honorato > HD Legal > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Known as Honorato | Delaveau until its 2023 rebrand, HD Legal‘s practice regularly handles significant M&A-related financings, as well as restructuring, bankruptcy and liquidation work. The fintech and finance department is led by project finance specialist Matías Langevin; Sebastián Delpiano is a structured and asset finance expert; and key support at name-partner level is provided by José Luis Honorato and Gonzalo Delaveau. Among the associates, Antonia Vial advises on real estate project financing, while senior Ignacio Araya Paredes, who assists with fintech work, is a September 2022 recruit from Banco Central de Chile. Former partner Felipe Divin left in August 2022 to establish his own firm.

Known as Honorato | Delaveau until its 2023 rebrand, HD Legal‘s ‘technically good‘ six-member group routinely creates and implements tailored compliance programmes that focus on the risk of corruption, financial crimes, illegal competition, tax crimes, consumer violations, data protection, information security, labour violations, and environmental infringements. Clients additionally benefit from the firm’s sister organisation HD Compliance, a dedicated compliance consulting firm that evaluates and certifies companies’ compliance programmes. With ‘vast knowledge of this area‘, Rebeca Zamora is a criminal law specialist, whose experience encompasses advising compliance officers on the development of their activities, particularly in relation to investigations and internal audits. Former Moneda Asset Management general counsel and compliance manager, Carlos Frías, is notably experienced in financial sector-related compliance work. Further support within the partnership is provided by name partner and arbitration and dispute resolution expert, José Luis Honorato.