Ricardo Escobar

Practice Areas

Ricardo Escobar concentrates his professional practice on corporate, tax and foreign investment, dispute resolution.

He has vast experience in both the public and private sectors. During the last two decades, Mr. Escobar has played a pivotal role in the design of public policy and legislation in matters related to concessions for public works, double taxation and the capital market. He has also worked at the Foreign Investments Committee and has acted as a negotiator of foreign investment protection treaties and conventions to avoid double taxation. He was the Commissioner of the Chilean Internal Revenue Service (SII) from 2006 to 2010, where he led one of the key teams in the process of the incorporation of Chile to the OECD.

Mr. Escobar has acted as an advisor for the Government of Paraguay (IDB Program for Tax Reform) and delegate of the Finance Ministry of Chile before the Fiscal Affairs Committee of the OECD.

He received his law degree (J.D. equivalent) from Universidad de Chile and obtained a Master’s Degree (L.L.M.) at the University of California at Berkeley.