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Sebastián is HD’s managing partner and founder, leading the area of capital markets and asset management, insurance and venture capital. He has a vast experience on corporate and financial matters, with special emphasis on the administration or asset management and collective investment vehicle (funds), structuring of financial products and derivatives, investment advisory, M&A, debt and/or equity issuances, IPOs, securities brokerage, as well as in advising and defending entities under supervision of the financial regulator.

Previously, joining HD, he worked as chief lawyer at Banchile Inversiones and subsequently he was a lawyer in various and recognized law firms in the country.

Since 2018 he has been accredited by the Committee for the Accreditation of Knowledge in the Securities Markets (CAMV).

He is a member of the Legal Committee of the Chilean Association of Investment Fund Administrators.

In his academic career, he has been a professor of the Master in Tax Law on capital market taxation at Universidad Diego Portales and also a professor in the Diploma on Certification of Investment Funds at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Currently, he is a professor in the Internal Investigations course on violations to the Securities Market Law of the Diploma in Corporate Internal Investigations at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

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Rebeca has an extensive experience in advising legal entities in the design and implementation of effective compliance programs, prepared on the basis of the activities the Companies carried out, including the detection, treatment and mitigation of crime risk (especially those that could result in the emergence of Corporate Criminal Responsibility, in accordance with Law 20,393), corruption, financial and antitrust crimes, tax crimes, breaches of consumer matters, data protection, information security, and breaches in labor matters.

Rebeca has also advised on Due Diligence processes for the evaluation of the compliance and anti-corruption systems of different companies, reviewing their activities, programs, policies and controls, in order to detect and mitigate the risks of legal transmission of corporate criminal liability. In matters of litigation, she has concentrated her practice on complex criminal litigation, punitive procedures and defense.

In addition to being a partner at HD Compliance, since December 2019 she has been head of the Labor and Employment practice at HD Legal. Between 2015 and 2019 she served as Head of Compliance and Criminal Law Area at Morales & Besa Law Firm, where she also fulfilled functions as Crime Prevention Officer for different companies, acting with full independence and reporting directly to the Board of Directors. Previously, between 2012 and 2015, she worked as an associate in the Criminal Department at Claro & Cía.

Rebeca is a Professor of Criminal Law at Central University and Gabriela Mistral University, and in the Gender Perspective Diploma for change in organizations at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile.

She is a member of the Chilean Bar Association A.G. since 2013; and Women In Compliance Chile, since 2018. She is also Executive Secretary of the World Compliance Association, Chilean Chapter, since 2020 and member of Transparent Chile since 2021.

In 2024, she was in charge of certifying Entel, the first company in Chile to have its Consumer Protection Compliance Plan approved by Sernac through the certifier HD Systems.

She is the author of the book Corporate Internal Investigations. A Compliance Approach (Der Ediciones).

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Carlos has extensive experience in the financial sector as an in-house lawyer at three different local banks (1995-2000 and 2007-2008) and also as a consultant in the Special Situations area (insolvency and restructuring) at the former Inter-American Investment Corporation. , today the financial arm of IDB Invest ( Washington DC 2001-2002).

Carlos was deputy director (2004-2007) of the Specialized Unit on Money Laundering, Economic Crimes and Organized Crime of the National Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Ministry, where he attended courses on property investigations in matters of money laundering in Colombia, Guatemala and Switzerland. In that position, he was involved in transnational money laundering investigations with the German Federal Police, the Colombian National Police and the Dutch Police, in addition to intervening in money laundering trials in Chile.

He was General Counsel (2008-2018) and Compliance Manager (2012-2016) of Moneda Asset Management and all the subsidiaries of the group, in which he directly advised on the creation of local and foreign investment funds, as well as in their business, transactions, litigation and operations carried out by said funds, both in Chile and abroad.

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Sara has 13 years of experience leading strategic projects in compliance, corporate governance, and crime prevention in regulated companies across various sectors. Her professional practice combines a legal approach with an organizational perspective, enabling her to collaborate directly with senior management teams, lead complex processes to implement and strengthen prevention and internal control models, and advise companies subject to oversight by the CMF, UAF, and Superintendency of Pensions.

She has developed her career in the corporate world, working as an in-house lawyer for multinational companies such as Masisa and AFP ProVida (part of the MetLife group), where she was in charge of corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters. Later, as Compliance Officer at GSI Capital, a fund manager (part of the Patria Investments group), she led regulatory compliance and the implementation of crime prevention and ethical behavior programs.

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Camilo joined HD in 2024 as an associate in the Compliance area, specializing in commercial law, consumer law, antitrust and personal data.

Previously, he worked as a corporate lawyer at Infante Valenzuela Molina Abogados (2022-2024).

He was an intern at the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic and at Lorenzini Consultores Law Firm (2018).

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Hernán joined HD in 2025, specifically the Compliance team. He previously worked as a junior legal counsel at Crystal Lagoons (2024), an associate in the Tax/Corporate area at the Palma law firm (2023-2024), and a compliance officer at Fonmoney Chile SPA (2022-2023).

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Josefina is a lawyer specialized in corporate law, with vast work experience in legal departments and with multidisciplinary teams in international companies in the areas of mass consumption, health and energy. She has extensive knowledge in the drafting and negotiation of contracts, compliance with corporate obligations, labor law, analysis and legal risk assessment.

In addition, her career has been highlighted by the leadership and management of several large projects, such as corporate restructurings and collective bargaining, along with a solid track record in large international companies with global reporting, particularly in the UK.

Previously she served as corporate counsel senior manager at British American Tobacco (2018-2021), as prosecution lawyer at BUPA (2017-2018) and at Metrogas (2013-2017).  In 2011 and 2012 she worked as corporate counsel at Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana.

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María Paz joined HD Compliance in August 2025. She has more than 5 years of experience in compliance, intellectual property, and sports law.

She specializes in prevention models, with experience in due diligence, training, corporate policy review, and the use of technological solutions for compliance management.

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María Gracia concentrates her practice in compliance, regulatory compliance, governance and administrative sanctioning procedures.

Previously, during the year 2021, she worked as a lawyer in the corporate and real estate area at Artigas & Cía.

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Rodrigo joined HD’s Compliance team in August 2023, specializing in criminal matters.

Previously, he carried out his professional practice at the Public Defender’s Office, in the adolescent criminal responsibility unit.

In the academic aspect, Rodrigo was an assistant at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in the Public International Law course led by Professor Álvaro Paul (2018-2021); assistant at the same university in the Criminal Law course led by Professor María Elena Santibáñez and Claudio Feller (2020-2022); and assistant at the same university in the International Criminal Law course led by Professor José Ignacio Escobar (2022).

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Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2023).

Course (MOOC) “Corporate Governance. Myths and Realities”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (March 2023).

Course (MOOC) “Children’s Human Rights – An Interdisciplinary Introduction”, Université de Genève (December 2022).