Morales & Besa

Capital MarketsCorporate and M&ABanking & Finance

Founding Partner at Morales & Besa, head of Capital Markets and co-head of Corporate/M&A.

As founding Partner of the firm, Mr. Morales has vast experience advising both national and international companies in the processes of planning, negotiating and executing acquisition transactions and mergers, securities offerings, debt emission and corporate restructuring, as well as restructuring of liabilities.

He is the Honorary Legal Adviser of the British Embassy in Santiago and member of the Bar Association in Chile. Additionally, he is legal counselor and director of Make a Wish Foundation (Chile).

During 1987 and 1988, he practiced as a foreign associate in New York at White & Case and was Secretary of the Inter-American Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Associate.

Spanish and English.

He is the Honorary Legal Adviser to HMA British Embassy in Santiago and member of the Chilean Bar Association, Fundación Pro Bono Chile, the British-Chilean Chamber of Commerce, and the North American Chilean Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, he is legal counsellor and director of Make-a-Wish Foundation (Chile) and Ambassador of the "Mujeres en Finanzas" corporation.

Master of Laws (LLM), University of Chicago Law School (1987). Law degree, graduated magna cum laude, Universidad de Chile, Law School (1983).