Partner Profile

Jorge Ugarte

Carey

Chile

LL 250

Biography

Partner at Carey and co-head of the firm’s corporate, mergers and acquisitions/capital markets groups. He advises local and foreign clients on all kinds of mergers and acquisition transactions, including the purchase of shares, equity and assets of both public and close corporations, public takeovers, private equity transactions, shareholders agreements, issuance and securities transactions. He also acts as counsel to family companies and holdings on the corporate organisation of their business and the structuring of their estate successions. Jorge is professor of civil law and former professor of corporate law at Universidad Católica de Chile author of the book Share Transfer Agreements

Practice areas

Mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, family companies and holdings.

Education

Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (Distinction Scholarship Award granted to the best student of the class, 1999).

LLM, Columbia University, New York (2009).

Family Business Management Programme, ESE Business School (2017).

Family Governance LATAM Program, Wharton Business School, Miami (2017).

Admissions: Chile (2006).

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