Mr Diego Noguera > DLA Piper Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Fielding seven practitioners, DLA Piper Chile‘s ‘highly thorough’ capital markets practice handles IPOs, private and public placements, securities issuances and capital increases. Other areas of strength range from mergers and divisions, to publicly-held companies’ share exchanges, stock options, American depositary receipts, stock options, and bond issuances and credit line registrations. Senior partner Diego Noguera is a recognised and long-standing corporate, capital markets and securities specialist; he co-leads the department with Jorge Timmerman, who was made partner in January 2021 and who is experienced in securities issuances and the registration of funds before the Financial Markets Commission. The ‘very active’ Matías Zegers, who is a corporate governance and venture capital expert of note, rounds out the senior team.

DLA Piper Chile‘s 19-strong corporate and M&A practice has significant experience in assisting international clients with their activities in Chile and abroad, routinely handling aspects including due diligence, corporate governance and post-closure follow-up, as well as venture capital investments. Department head and venture capital specialist Matías Zegers consistently advises both funds and large-scale ventures; Marco Salgado is a public and private M&A expert; Diego Noguera‘s practice covers M&A transactions, capital markets, compliance, corporate governance and family wealth matters; and recently promoted Jorge Timmermann focuses on M&A structuring, and stock purchase and shareholder agreements. Counsel Josefina Consiglio has M&A experience (particularly as regards the acquisition of energy projects), but is particularly focused on corporate governance matters.

DLA Piper Chile‘s compliance practice has enviable experience in the forestry, mining, retail, energy, publishing and heavy machinery sectors. The scope of the team’s expertise includes regulatory compliance assessments, the implementation of risk-matrix compliance control mechanisms; designing Law 20,393-related compliance programs; criminal liability prevention models; compliance certification processes; and corporate compliance-related internal investigations. The practice is co-headed by corporate and capital markets specialist Diego Noguera, who routinely identifies potential conflicts of interest between private entities and public agencies; and Mauricio Halpern, whose recent experience includes assisting Finning Chile with a corporate criminal liability compliance programme. At associate level, in addition to her dispute resolution practice, Andrea de la Vega advises companies on criminal liability-related regulatory compliance matters.