Region Area

Lawyers

Carlos Frías

Carlos Frías

HD Legal, Chile

Work Department

Compliance and Administrative Procedures.

Position

Director

Career

Carlos has extensive experience in the financial sector as in-house counsel for two different local banks (1995-2000 and 2007-2008), and 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 (in Washington D.C. 2001-2002).

He 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 money-laundering investigations in Colombia, Guatemala, and Switzerland. In this position, he participated in transnational money laundering investigations with the German Federal Police, the Colombian National Police, and the Dutch Police and intervened in money laundering trials in Chile.

He was Legal Manager (2008-2018) and Compliance and Internal Control Manager (2012-2016) of Moneda Asset Management and all subsidiaries of the group, in which he directly advised on the creation of local and foreign investment funds, as well as their business, transactions, litigation, and operations carried out by such funds, both in Chile and abroad.

Languages

Spanish and English.

Education

Attourney, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1993).

Master of Laws on International Business Law, American University, Washington College of Laws (2001).

Specialization Diploma in Economics and Finance for Lawyers, School of Economics, Universidad de Chile (1998).

Diploma in Administrative Litigation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2018).

Mentions