Cristián Venegas-Puga received his law degree from Diego Portales University School of Law, in Santiago, Chile, and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law, United States.

He is an Associate Partner at BTG Pactual, where he serves as head of the legal teams in Chile, Peru and Europe, and as head of Compliance for Chile and Peru. He joined the group in 2012. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of Banco BTG Pactual Chile and BTG Pactual Chile S.A. Administradora General de Fondos.

Prior to joining BTG Pactual, he worked at Moneda Asset Management and Banco de Chile, for more than eight years. From 2005 to 2016 he taught Commercial, Bankruptcy and Corporate Law at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Diego Portales, where he also served as head of the Department of Commercial Law and member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Law. From 2021, he is professor of Commercial Law and Financing at Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile. During 2007 and part of 2008 he worked as a foreign associate at Mayer Brown LLP, Washington DC., United States.