Mr Mauricio Halpern > DLA Piper Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Chile Offices
El Golf 150
10th Floor
Las Condes
Chile
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Mr Mauricio Halpern
Work Department
Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Projects and Infrastructure; Global Governance and Compliance; Restructuring
Position
Partner
Career
Mauricio Halpern leads the Banking and Finance practice group in Chile, and has wide practical experience in the restructuring, leveraged finance, acquisition financing, project and corporate finance areas, both nationally and internationally.
Also, considering his vast experience as an in-house lawyer, Mauricio Co-heads the Compliance group, assisting clients in the development and implementation of regulatory compliance models, according to Act 20,393 and its amendments, preparation of policies, procedures, reporting channels, risk matrixes, and control panels, providing them with the best practices and market standards.
His extended experience includes also Corporate and Capital Markets, as well as Insurance. Mauricio has stood out by leading the processes of first issue stock placement, public offering of shares, bond issuance, and trade bills. He has actively participated providing strategic advice to boards of directors and senior management of public and private corporations, both local and foreign, in addition to collaborating in corporate restructuring processes, dispute resolution and complex negotiation between shareholders.
In connection with Insurance & Reinsurance, Mauricio advises foreign clients in their establishment in Chile in compliance with local special regulation, insurance’s liquidation and claims, among others.
Languages
Spanish; English
Memberships
Chilean Bar Association
Education
Law, School of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2001
Master of Laws (LL.M.), School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Banking and finance
DLA Piper Chile
‘s team is widely respected for its energy-sector expertise, particularly regarding photovoltaic solar projects. Clients notably benefit from the Santiago office’s ability to leverage the firm’s global network, which facilitates interaction with other jurisdictions during financings. It additionally caters to non-traditional financial needs, such as fintech matters, investment and personal finance, P2P lending, and cryptocurrencies. The team is led by Mauricio Halpern, who routinely advises banks, multilateral financial institutions and syndicated club banks, while Matías Zegers
is an investment funds expert. At associate level, Eduardo Araya and Natalia Cox are both active in finance work.
Chile > Compliance
DLA Piper Chile‘s five-member compliance practice is consistently mandated on regulatory compliance assessments, the creation and implementation of risk matrix compliance control mechanisms, criminal liability prevention models, and the design of compliance programmes in accordance with Law 20,393. It also prepares clients for compliance certification processes and advises on corporate compliance-related internal investigations. Clients additionally benefit from the Santiago office’s access to the firm’s global platform of over 90 offices, as well as the compliance team’s sector expertise in energy, forestry, mining, retail and publishing among other areas. The ‘very committed’ practice group is co-led by corporate and banking and finance expert, Mauricio Halpern, who can leverage his previous experience as an in-house counsel for compliance work; and corporate and capital markets’ partner Diego Noguera, a specialist in identifying potential conflicts of interest between public agencies and private entities. In addition to dispute resolution, experienced associate Andrea de la Vega advises on regulatory compliance issues.