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Cristóbal  Eyzaguirre

Cristóbal Eyzaguirre

Work Department

Litigation, Antitrust and Economic Regulation, Arbitration, Mergers and Acquisitions, Administrative Law and Administrative Procedural Law, Reorganization and Insolvency, Banking and Finance, Constitutional, Capital Markets.

Position

Partner

Career

Cristóbal Eyzaguirre specializes in Corporate, Banking and Financing matters, Mergers and Acquisitions, Syndicated Loans, Capital Markets, Project Financing, Debt Restructuring, Bankruptcy, Private Equity Investments, Antitrust and Commercial Arbitration and Litigation.

From 1997 through 2003, he served in various senior positions at Citigroup, including Managing Director, General Counsel and Compliance Director of Citigroup Latin America (based in Florida, U.S.A.), General Counsel of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank of Citigroup Latin America (based in Florida, U.S.A.), and General Counsel of Citigroup Chile (Santiago). Previously, he was with Shearman & Sterling, New York, 1994-1995.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, Tucson, Arizona, 2002-2003, and Chairman of the Law School Association of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile1990.

He is professor of the Master in Business Law at Los Andes University Law School and of Civil Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School. Previously he was professor of the Master in Business Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School and at University Adolfo Ibáñez Law School.

He joined Claro & Cia. in 1988,  and is a partner since 2004.

Languages

Spanish and English.

Education

LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1994, Fulright Scholarship.

J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1991.

Recipient Tocornal and Pedro N. Montenegro Awards, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Law, granted to the best student of his class, 1991.

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