DLA Piper Chile

Corporate and Commercial Law, specialized in Mergers and AcquisitionsCapital MarketsCorporate GovernancePrivate Equity Venture Capital

Partner

Matías Zegers serves as Managing partner of DLA Piper Chile, leading the Corporate and M&A practice group of the firm. He is also a member of the DLA Piper's Americas Executive Committee.

Matías focuses his practice on Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance and Venture Capital. He is considered one of the most experienced lawyers in Corporate Governance and Venture Capital in Chile and in the region, having being consistently recognized as such by multiple rankings and publications.

In M&A, he has advised clients in several purchase and sale operations of public and private companies, both domestic and foreign. He has also participated in tender offers, privatization of electric and sanitary companies in Latin America, debt and equity issuances in the local and international markets, both

registered and unregistered.

In Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship matters, he has advised clients in landmark transactions, many of them the first to be closed in Chile. Also, he has significant experience in investment funds and designing innovative solutions to fund venture capital, structuring financing products, and applying for public funds, among others. As one of the leading Chilean attorneys in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship, Mr. Zegers has been a pioneer, assisting multiple tech and biotech companies in almost all the relevant verticals of the industry, both start-ups and scale-ups.

Matías is a reference at the regional level of good Corporate Governance practices, advising leading national and regional companies in matters such as boards and committees, directors' responsibilities and their evaluation, manuals and policies, among others.

Spanish; English

Chilean Bar Association

International Bar Association (BA)

Member of the Latin American Roundtable in Corporate Governance, OECD

Member of the Task Force for Related Party Transactions, OECD

Law, School of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994

Master of Laws (LL.M.), The University of Michigan Law School, 2002