{"id":1085,"date":"2024-07-30T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/?post_type=team&#038;p=1085"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:23:35","slug":"alberto-vergara","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/en\/team\/alberto-vergara\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Vergara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>EXPERIENCE<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In the public sector he served as coordinator of the Legal Division of the Ministry General Secretaria of the Presidency (2010-2012), co-leading the group of lawyers who advised on various matters\u00a0 former President Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era in his first government, and then he was appointed as general counsel of the Ministry of Education (2012-2014) leading a team of over 50 lawyers in one of the most complex ministries and with the largest budget in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as an associate at the law firms Arteaga &amp; Gorziglia (2014-2016), and Baker &amp; Mckenzie (2003-2010), and as a paralegal at Baker &amp; Mckenzie (1999-2002) advising national and international clients.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member, since 2024, of the board of directors of Iplacex S.A.<\/p>\n<p>He is professor of the Public Law Department of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile, teaching for more than twenty years, both in undergraduate and graduate courses.<\/p>\n<h2>EDUCATION<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile (2003).<\/li>\n<li>Master of Laws (LLM), Northwestern University, Chicago, United States (2007).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>RECOGNITIONS<\/h2>\n<p>THE LEGAL 500 GC POWER LIST.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognized among the most outstanding In-House lawyers in Chile in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BEST LAWYERS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Administrative and Public Law (2026).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1086,"template":"","section":[9],"class_list":["post-1085","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-director"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":1085,"es":1084},"meta_box":{"member_sexo":"hombre","member_email":"","member_telefono":"avergara@hdgroup.cl","member_cargo":"Director","cargo_esp":"Director"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdgroup.cl\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}