About

Rafael Le-Bert joined Compañía Pesquera Camanchaca as general counsel in 2013, prior to which he enjoyed an extremely successful decade as a private practice lawyer at a number of extremely well-regarded firms including Russi & Eguiguren and Morales & Besa. Le-Bert believes that the company’s position in the fisheries business allows him an interesting opportunity to operate in a business area which attracts greater interest from the public than many others. However, this also comes with unique challenges: ‘The business of fisheries and salmon is the object of a keen scrutiny on the part of the citizenry, which demands compliance with standards superior to those that are merely legal. Understanding these standards, and contributing to their correct understanding and visibility by the company’s top management is one of the permanent objectives of legal management, one that I have successfully carried out. Understanding the business language and vision of those executives who work in the business areas and showing them how these visions need and can exist in harmony within legal perspectives, demonstrating that the creation of value is a joint effort, is also one of the most important experiences and skills that I have acquired as a general counsel’. Le-Bert has introduced a number of innovations within the team over the course of his tenure with the company, including ‘the standardisation of legal documentation and contracts and the sectorisation of legal advisory services’, which has led to more robust internal processes and increased efficiency in the selection of external legal advisors.