Diego Rodríguez
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 1 : Venture Capital
About
Provided by Diego Rodríguez
Practice Areas
Diego is partner and head of the Venture Capital and Fintech Groups at A/C/R Legal. His practice is focused on M&A, private equity, financing rounds and regulatory matters in Chile and abroad, which he complements with joint ventures, flips, negotiation of different types of agreements, advice on corporate governance matters and design and implementation of corporate structures for the materialization of businesses. He also provides legal advice and mentoring to start-ups at different stages of development.
He is commended for advising and keeping clients informed on how trends and new legislation may affect their business, particularly the Fintech industry, and the opportunities such changes represent.
Career
2009 Joined Carey & Allende (since 2017 CMS Carey & Allende) as associate
2013-2014 Worked at Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffy LLP as international associate
2014 Promoted to senior associate
2018 Promoted to partner
2019 Appointed as co-head of TMC group and head of CMS equIP programme in Chile
2021 Appointed head of Venture Capital and Fintech groups
2024 Founded A/C/R Legal
Chambers Review
Latin America
Distinguished practitioner Diego Rodríguez of ACR specialises in advising emerging growth companies on capital raising, predominantly involving early-stage investments. He is strong in transactions in the fintech space.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Diego Rodríguez provides an outstanding service with a commercial mindset. He is both flexible and sophisticated."
"Diego is very approachable, always willing to collaborate. You can tell that he has knowledge of various topics and has helped entrepreneurs a lot in their expansion challenges."
"Diego Rodríguez provides an outstanding service with a commercial mindset. He is both flexible and sophisticated."
"Diego is very approachable, always willing to collaborate. You can tell that he has knowledge of various topics and has helped entrepreneurs a lot in their expansion challenges."
