Career Biography

Mauricio Gregorio Santos Diaz is a senior legal executive with more than twenty-five years of professional experience in the financial services and insurance sectors, advising boards of directors, senior management teams and multinational organisations on complex legal, regulatory, corporate governance, compliance, M&A, capital markets, tax and strategic business matters. He currently serves as General Counsel of Zurich Chile, where he leads all legal, regulatory, corporate governance, and public affairs matters for the Zurich Group’s operations in Chile, providing strategic support to the Board of Directors and executive leadership team in one of the country’s most highly regulated industries.

Throughout his career, Mauricio has built a reputation as a trusted business partner capable of combining deep legal expertise with practical and commercially focused advice. Since joining Zurich in 2018, he has been responsible for overseeing legal and regulatory matters across the group’s Chilean operations, managing relationships with key regulators, including the CMF, SERNAC and anti-trust authorities, while supporting business growth, innovation and transformation initiatives. His responsibilities have included leading significant M&A transactions, advising on corporate governance matters, coordinating responses to regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, managing complex litigation and consumer protection matters, and driving compliance and risk management initiatives aligned with international standards.

Prior to Zurich, Mauricio spent a decade at Itaú Corpbanca as Institutional and Securities Legal Manager, holding responsibility for corporate, securities, banking, treasury, tax and regulatory matters of the bank and its subsidiaries. During this period, he participated in some of the most significant cross-border transactions in the Latin American financial sector, including the landmark merger between Itaú Chile and Corpbanca and the acquisition and integration of major financial institutions and subsidiaries in Chile, Colombia, Panama and other jurisdictions. He advised boards, senior committees and executive management on capital markets transactions, public securities offerings, international financing transactions, banking regulation and corporate governance matters involving local and international regulators, including the former SBIF and SVS in Chile, as well as the U.S. Federal Reserve, SEC and OCC.

Earlier in his career, Mauricio was a partner at a Chilean law firm specialising in corporate, banking and tax matters and held senior legal positions within major banking institutions, developing extensive expertise in corporate law, real estate finance, leasing, mortgage lending and taxation. He holds a Law degree from the University of Chile, an LL.M. in Tax Law from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and a Diploma in Insurance Regulation from Universidad de los Andes. He has also completed specialised training in banking regulation, capital markets, taxation and international financial law and participated in professional programs in the United States. Mauricio is widely recognised for his leadership, technical excellence and sound business judgment, helping organisations successfully navigate complex legal, regulatory and reputational challenges while fostering strong governance, integrity and sustainable growth.