Lathrop Mujica Herrera & Diez

Lathrop Mujica Herrera & Diez Abogados is a Chilean law firm recognized for its strategic, multidisciplinary approach and its ability to deliver high-level legal advice tailored to the specific needs of high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and privately held businesses. Provides integrated legal services across core practice areas, including private wealth management, corporate law, tax, real estate, labor, and energy and natural resources, offering 360° legal solutions aligned with the evolving challenges faced by its clients.

Founded by five highly regarded partners—Fernando Lathrop, Pedro Pablo Mujica, Sebastián Herrera, José María Diez, and Francisco Cárcamo— combines exceptional academic backgrounds with extensive experience in both private practice and public service. All founding partners were previously part of leading Chilean law firms such as Eluchans, Cubillos Soza, Dentons (Rencoret & Urzúa), Recabarren & Asociados, and Caglevic y Santibáñez Abogados.

The law firm is distinguished by its focus on their client’s needs, which emphasizes close collaboration, technical excellence, and tailored legal strategies. Its legal team is composed of professionals with strong sectoral knowledge and practical expertise, enabling them to address complex and high-stakes matters with a strategic, analytical, and results-driven mindset.

The Private Wealth Law practice is spearheaded by the firm’s Corporate and Tax teams, which work in close coordination to deliver personalized and strategic legal advice, with a particular focus on family offices. Their services encompass corporate restructurings, succession planning, and comprehensive wealth management, all tailored to the specific needs and objectives of each client. The goal is to ensure efficient financial planning and seamless intergenerational wealth transfer, while safeguarding and enhancing family assets over the long term.

Lathrop Mujica Herrera & Diez Abogados support clients with cross-border wealth structuring, philanthropic planning, intergenerational wealth transfer, and tax-efficient strategies, delivering solutions that combine legal precision with a deep understanding of clients' financial objectives and family dynamics. The firm is especially valued for its ability to anticipate risks, structure investments, and support key decisions that preserve and grow family wealth over the long term.

In the last years, the firm has advised on complex and high-impact wealth management and corporate structuring matters for prominent Chilean and international families. Its legal work includes optimizing holding structures, aligning investment strategies with applicable tax frameworks, managing regulatory risks, and guiding the international flow of assets and capital.

The firm’s client portfolio includes both domestic and international companies and high-profile family businesses across a broad range of industries, such as agriculture, aquaculture, aviation, automotive, construction, philanthropy, real estate, biotechnology, energy, logistics, telecommunications, hospitality, insurance, finance, entertainment, gastronomy, manufacturing, and packaging.

Lathrop Mujica Herrera & Diez Abogados is also active in thought leadership within the legal and business communities. Regularly contributes to public debates by publishing legal updates, participating in national forums and media platforms, and maintaining a newsletter that shares insights into legislative trends, tax updates, and best practices in wealth management and private client law.

Through its strategic, personalized, and technically rigorous approach, Lathrop Mujica Herrera & Diez Abogados has earned the trust of some of the most prominent families in Chile. Its modern and multidisciplinary practice, designed to meet the complexities of family wealth, is a key factor behind the firm’s strong reputation in the Chilean legal market.