EXPERIENCE

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.

EDUCATION

• Lawyer, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2015).
• Minor in Global Business Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2012).
• Minor in Entrepreneurship Management, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2012).
• Diploma in Adaptive Leadership for Senior Management (Promociona), Adolfo Ibáñez University (2018).
• Course on Economic Crimes, Diego Portales University (2023).
• Course on Personal Data Protection Delegates, Diego Portales University (2025).
• CAMV Certification – Securities Market Knowledge Accreditation Committee (2023–2027).
• GRI Certification in sustainability reporting and ESG performance (2018).

EXPERIENCE

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.

EDUCATION

• Lawyer, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (1993).
• Master of Laws, Mention in International Business Law, American University, Washington College of Laws (2001).
• Diploma of Specialization in Economics and Finance for lawyers, Faculty of Economics, University of Chile (1998).
• Diploma on Administrative Litigation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2018).
• Fintech Course: Innovation and Open Finance, Universidad del Desarrollo (2023).

RECOGNITIONS

LEADERS LEAGUE

• Highly Recommended in Compliance (2021, 2022).
• Recommended in Dispute Resolution / White Collar Crime (2021, 2022, 2024).
• Excellent in Compliance (2024, 2025).
• Recommended in Economic Criminal Law (2025).

BEST LAWYERS

• Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice, Venture Capital Law (2020 a 2026).