Gerardo Varela

Practice Areas

Corporate Law; M&A; Family Offices and Holdings; and Energy.

Career

Partner since 1996. Universidad de Chile Law School (LLB, 1990). His area of practice is Corporate Law, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he is an expert advisor and trial lawyer in Competition Law matters. With more than 30 years of professional practice, he has been involved in mergers and acquisitions of more than 50 companies in areas as diverse as electricity, salmon production, and retail, among others.

In addition, he is a director of several companies in the areas of health, agriculture, transportation and energy.

He has also served in different positions in private companies, unions and with the State. Currently, he is President of Sonacol S.A. and he has been a Director of SOFOFA, a Member of the Ethics Tribunal of the Bar Association, President of the Observatorio Judicial de Libertad y Desarrollo, President of Soprole S.A. and Minister of Education of the Government of President Sebastián Piñera. He is Arbitrator of the Chilean Chamber of Commerce of Santiago and has been Minister of the Ethics Tribunal of the Bar Association.

Professional Memberships

-International Bar Association.

Languages Spoken

Spanish and English.