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Juan Ignacio has knowledge and experience in Regulatory Law and Environmental Law, providing legal advice in matters related to such areas, including the development and operation of projects, Electric Energy Law, Natural Resources, Environmental and Indigenous Law. He has experience in electricity concessions, entry to the Environmental Assessment System, negotiation of contracts for the use of land for the installation of energy and mining projects, expropriation, actions of patrimonial responsibility and control of the State, administrative contracting, electrical and mining easements, permitting, use and exploitation of public goods, relations with communities and due diligence of projects.

Between 2009 and 2014, he worked as an attorney in the Litigation and Arbitration area of Guerrero Olivos Novoa y Errázuriz; then, between 2014 and 2018, he worked as an attorney in the Litigation and Arbitration area of Cubillos Evans, focusing his practice on litigation, applications and claims related to the area of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment, and in the management of due diligence of energy projects and relations with communities. Subsequently, he founded the firm Marín Abogados, continuing his advice in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Environmental Law matters between 2019 and 2024.

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Alberto has extensive experience advising national and international clients, companies, public agencies and non-profit organizations, in public, constitutional and administrative law, banking and financial regulation, as well as antitrust, corporate governance, consumer protection, litigation and arbitration.

He was director of Litigation, Regulation and Corporate Governance at BBVA Chile (2016-2018), and director of Litigation at Scotiabank Chile (2018-2024), being part of the team that successfully worked on the merger and integration of both banks in Chile.

In the public sector he served as coordinator of the Legal Division of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (2010-2012), co-leading the group of lawyers who advised on various matters to former President Sebastián Piñera in his first government, and then took over as prosecutor of the Ministry of Education (2012-2014) in charge of a team of over 50 people in one of the most complex ministries and with the largest budget in Chile.

He also served as an associate at the law firms Arteaga & Gorziglia (2014-2016), and Baker & Mckenzie (2003-2010), and as a solicitor at Baker & Mckenzie (1999-2002) advising national and international clients.

He is a member, since 2024, of the board of directors and of the board of directors of Iplacex S.A.

He has been a professor of the Public Law Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile for twenty years, both in undergraduate and graduate courses.

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THE LEGAL 500 GC POWER LIST.

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Juan Andrés knowledge and experience focuses in tax, corporate and family businesses matters, providing legal advice in such areas, including national, international, general and hereditary tax planning. Throughout his professional career, he has participated in projects related to corporate, M&A, financial and stock market matters, as well as business reorganizations and all kind of tax planning. He also has experience acting before the Chilean Internal Revenue Service and the Tax and Customs Courts on behalf of Chilean and foreign clients.

Previously (2011-2015) he worked as an associate lawyer in the tax and corporate areas in the law firm Del Rio & Compañía, advising clients both at corporate and personal / family level.

EDUCATION

Attorney, Universidad de Los Andes (2009).

Master’s degree in Taxation Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. (2016).

Master’s degree in Taxation from the School of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile (2018).

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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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Carolina has vast experience in matters related to investments by Chilean pension funds. In particular, she has advised several foreign fund managers on the approval processes for their mutual funds, exchange traded funds and closed-end funds before the Chilean Risk Rating Committee (Comisión Clasificadora de Riesgo – CCR) and in related registration processes in the Foreign Securities Registry kept by the Financial Market Commission (Comisión para el Mercado Financiero – CMF) for public offering in the Chilean market. She has also participated actively in structuring local public funds acting as feeder funds of foreign private equity funds, thus giving pension funds exposure to this investment alternative.

Previously she served as Senior Associate at Guerrero Olivos (2008- 2014). Before that, she worked as Senior International Analyst at the Chilean Risk Rating Committee (Comisión Clasificadora de Riesgo – CCR) (October 1997 – February 2008). In 1995, she worked as a Research Analyst at Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (SOFOFA).

EDUCATION

Degree in business administration with mention in Economics from Universidad Gabriela Mistral, summa cum laude (1996).

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Mauricio has extensive experience advising the development and operation of projects in the energy, mining, and infrastructure industries. His trajectory highlights the legal support to multinational companies in their investment decisions in Chile, the development and financing of greenfield energy projects, the advice of large-scale copper mines in the management of their legal requirements, participation in public and private infrastructure tenders and M&A operations of conventional and renewable energy assets.

He worked between 2007 and 2011 as an associate in the infrastructure and natural resources practice at Aninat Schwencke y Cía. Between 2011 and 2013, he acted as Chief Legal Advisor of the National Irrigation Commission and –after obtaining a master’s degree from the University of Dundee in 2014– he developed a career as an in-house lawyer, first at Generadora Metropolitana (formerly Biobío Genera) as Legal Coordinator, and then as the Senior Lawyer of Antofagasta Minerals in charge of attending the legal requirements of its 3 mining operations in the Antofagasta Region.

In the academic field, Mauricio has published and collaborated in various publications in Chile, United Kingdom and Germany, on matters such as the regulation of access to critical infrastructure, the development of policies to promote private investment in infrastructure, glaciers regulation and desalination policies, among others. The following publications are highlighted:

Mauricio is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and partner of the Chilean Mining Chamber.

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