Matías Zegers

Corporate and Corporate Governance

Mergers and Acquisitions

Emerging Growth and Venture Capital

Fintech

Intellectual Property and Technology

Private Equity

Matías Zegers serves as Managing Partner of DLA Piper Chile, leading the Corporate and M&A practice group of the firm. He is also a member of the DLA Piper’s Americas Executive Committee.

Matías focuses his practice on Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, and Venture Capital. He has been consistently recognized by multiple rankings and publications.

In M&A, he has advised clients in multiple purchase and sale operations of public and private companies, both domestic and foreign. He has also participated in IPOs for a variety of corporations, the privatization of electric and sanitary companies in Latin America, and in the exits of multiple technology companies.

In Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship matters, he has advised clients in landmark transactions, many of them the first of their kind to be closed in Chile and the region. He also 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 attorneys in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship, Matías has been a pioneer in 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 manuals and policies, boards and committees, directors’ responsibilities, and their evaluation, among others.

Matías has developed an extended academic career. He is a tenured professor at the Law School for the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Founder and Executive Chairman of the Corporate Governance Centre at the same institution. He is also a member of the OECD’s Latin American Roundtable in Corporate Governance and several of its task forces; as well as Director of the Carlos Vial Espantoso Foundation.

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