Francisco Ugarte

Experience

Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions / Capital Markets / Banking & Finance Groups. His practice focuses on advising international and local clients on M&A and private equity transactions, including tender offers, joint ventures, debt issuances, public and private offering of securities, derivatives and project development.

Activities and Memberships

• Member of the Board of Votorantim Andina, Compañía Industrial El Volcán and VIVO. He has also been a member of the Board of SQM, Bci Corredor de Bolsa and Liberty Seguros.
• Professor of the LL.M. program at Universidad Católica de Chile (since 2010). He has also been a professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2009-2012) and Universidad del Desarrollo (2009).
• Vice chair of the M&A Joint Ventures Committee (2020-2023) and vice chair of the Latin America & Caribbean Committee (2017-2023) of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA).
• Member of the International Bar Association.Foreign associate, Shearman & Sterling, New York (2001-2003).Member of the Chilean Bar Association.
  

Publications

• Co-author of the Chilean chapter in ICLG - Derivatives, Global Legal Group (2020).
• Author of the Introduction “Legal innovations that foreign investors should be aware of”, ILFR Guide (2014).
• Co-author of “Secured Transactions South of the Border: Chilean Highlights and Recent Developments”, Conference on Consumer Finance Law, Quarterly Report, Vol.66, n°3 y n°4, Oklahoma City University Law School (2012).
• Author of the Chilean chapter in “Essentials of Merger Review”, International Antitrust Committee, American Bar Association (2009).
• Co-author of the Chilean chapter in “Merger Control Worldwide”, Cambridge University Press (2005).
• Contributor in several legal reforms promoted by the Chilean government and other non-governmental entities, including the NCG 30’s reform by the Insurance and Securities Commission regarding the registration of securities and debt offerings; the new regulation on corporations; the new law that facilitates the registration of a new business and the code for the certification of mining projects that seeks to facilitate the financing and IPO of new and junior mining companies; among others.

Seminars

• Frequent lecturer on various corporate finance, securities, M&A, private equity and corporate governance topics in seminars and conferences organized by the ABA, Latin Lawyer and the Chilean Bar Association, among others.