Matías Zegers

Practice Areas

Corporate

Mergers and Acquisitions

Public Company and Corporate Governance

Emerging Growth and Venture Capital

Intellectual Property and Technology

Private Equity

Career

Matías Zegers serves as Managing Partner of DLA Piper Chile, leading the firm’s Corporate and M&A practice group. He is also a member of DLA Piper's Americas Executive Committee and Regional Co-Leader of the Latam Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group.

Matías focuses his practice on Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, and Venture Capital. He is considered one of the most experienced lawyers in Corporate Governance and Venture Capital in Chile and the region, consistently recognized by multiple rankings and publications.

In M&A, he has advised clients in several purchase and sale operations of public and private companies, both domestic and foreign. He has also participated in tender offers, privatization of electric and sanitary companies in Latin America, debt and equity issuances in the local and international markets, both registered and unregistered.

In Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship matters, he has advised clients in landmark transactions, many of them the first to be closed in Chile. Also, he has significant experience in investment funds and designing innovative solutions to fund venture capital, structuring financing products, and applying for public funds, among others. As one of the leading Chilean attorney in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship, Matías has been a pioneer assisting multiple tech and biotech companies in almost all the relevant verticals of the industry, both start-ups and scale-ups.

Matías is a reference at the regional level of good Corporate Governance practices, advising leading national and regional companies in matters such as boards and committees, directors' responsibilities and their evaluation, manuals and policies, among others.

Matías has developed an extended academic career. He is tenured professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile's Law School and Executive Chairman of the Centro de Gobierno Corporativo UC. He is also member of the Latin American Roundtable in Corporate Governance and TaskForce of Related Parties' Transactions, both of the OECD and board member of the Fundación Carlos Vial Espantoso.

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association

International Bar Association (“IBA”)

Member of the Latin American Roundtable in Corporate Governance, OECD

Member of the Task Force for Related Party Transactions, OECD