Fernando Hurtado Morales

LLB, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School (1991); Graduate of Master of Law Program, Universidad de Chile Law School. Senior Partner at VGC. Previously, Associate of Cariola Diez Pérez-Cotapos & Cía; Legal Advisor of ARCADIS; Attorney at Legal Office of National Environmental Commission. Professor of environmental law at several graduate and postgraduate programs including programs for the Judicial Academy. Head of the litigation department, responsible...

A lawyer graduated from the Universidad de Chile School of Law, Santiago, and LL.M. from Columbia University, New York. In his more than 30 years of professional experience, Mr. Blanco has developed his practice representing local and foreign clients in corporate matters, M&A, antitrust, foreign investment, energy, litigation, insolvency and reorganization; in industries such as metal manufacturing, real estate, construction, construction materials, energy generation, farming, financial s...

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE Between june 2008 and march 2020, he was Head of Tax & Legal at BDO in Chile. Between 1999 and 2004, he served as attorney for the Department for the application and interpretation of International Tax Rules at the Chilean Internal Revenue Service (SII) and negotiator of agreements to avoid double taxation. In those years, the main agreements were negotiated and have been enacted in recent years. He was a representative of Chile of O.E.C.D. (Organization for Economi...

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LLB, Universidad de Chile Law School. Specialization Program “Environmental Policy Development and Implementation”, organized by the Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC, United States. Senior Partner at Vergara Galindo Correa Abogados. Previously, partner of Urrutia & Cía; Head of the Legal Office National Environmental Commission, Director of National Environmental Commission of Metropolitan Region and Secretary of Decontamination Commission of Metropolitan Reg...

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