Mr Carlos Frías > HD Legal > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Carlos Frías
Work Department
Compliance and Administrative Procedures.
Position
Director
Career
Carlos has extensive experience in the financial sector as in-house counsel for two different local banks (1995-2000 and 2007-2008), and as a consultant in the Special Situations area (insolvency and restructuring) at the former Inter-American Investment Corporation, today the financial arm of IDB Invest (in Washington D.C. 2001-2002).
He was Deputy Director (2004-2007) of the Specialized Unit on Money Laundering, Economic Crimes and Organized Crime of the National Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Ministry, where he attended courses on money-laundering investigations in Colombia, Guatemala, and Switzerland. In this position, he participated in transnational money laundering investigations with the German Federal Police, the Colombian National Police, and the Dutch Police and intervened in money laundering trials in Chile.
He was Legal Manager (2008-2018) and Compliance and Internal Control Manager (2012-2016) of Moneda Asset Management and all subsidiaries of the group, in which he directly advised on the creation of local and foreign investment funds, as well as their business, transactions, litigation, and operations carried out by such funds, both in Chile and abroad.
Languages
Spanish and English.
Education
Attourney, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1993).
Master of Laws on International Business Law, American University, Washington College of Laws (2001).
Specialization Diploma in Economics and Finance for Lawyers, School of Economics, Universidad de Chile (1998).
Diploma in Administrative Litigation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2018).
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Compliance
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.
Chile > Capital markets
Known as Honorato | Delaveau until its 2023 rebrand, HD Legal‘s seven-strong capital markets practice advises on public and private equities’ offering, commercial paper, fund units, and corporate and securitised bonds. The ‘multi-service, dynamic and technological‘ firm also fields experts in the creation of investment vehicles and securities; registering equity and debt instruments; advising on stock market relations; and reporting obligations for publicly-listed securities issuers and private securities placements. The group is led by longstanding capital markets expert Sebastián Delpiano; and Matías Langevin, who is experienced in assisting underwriters and issuers with international capital markets transactions. The track record of securities law director Carlos Frias includes in-house counsel stints at banking and multilateral financial institutions in Chile and the US; and at senior associate level, Nicolás Garcia advises fund managers on the incorporation of investment funds. Former partner Felipe Divin departed the firm in September 2022, as did senior associate Andrea Alarcón in October 2023.