About

JP Morgan’s Chilean legal department has a number of challenges on any given day, given the sheer size of the operation that the three-person, Santiago based, function has to support on a comprehensive basis. Fortunately the team’s leader, Alejandro Rubilar, who has constantly had a keen eye on innovative working methods, has introduced a number of technical and organisational improvements to smoothen its workload. With key changes centring on the rollout of new technologies, mapping of new obligations, regulatory change management and the development of new financial products, the team has become more efficient in the last two years, delivering superior advice on key transactions. Besides its involvement on landmark deals such as IPOs, M&As and capital markets refinancing deals, Rubilar’s team takes particular pride in its management of ongoing projects, for which the team identifies emerging legal risks and sets cross-border rules of engagement. Thanks to its improved efficiency and operational fluidity, besides its core responsibilities the team is also actively engaged in sustainability efforts. These include policy formulations, development of position statements and refocusing on new business models. According to Rubilar mere compliance is now ‘the lower bar’ in many respects, so his team now ensures that the organisation goes beyond simply adhering to regulation and must ensure that its corporate values share the same principles underpinning the law. Other areas of excellence for the team have included setting high standards on how to understand and apply diversity, as well as influencing regulatory change by implementing and contributing to updates to laws such as the Electronic Fiduciary Pledge, netting legislation and banking act reforms to adhere to Basel III. Besides Rubilar, the company also employs two fantastic lawyers; Fernando Eyzaguirre, who is the executive director and counsel for Chile as well as co-chair of JP Morgan’s Global Pro Bono Program, in addition to Caroline Lüders, associate counsel for Chile.