Ricardo Escobar

With more than three decades of experience, Ricardo is a key figure in tax law, fiscal policy and economic regulation in Chile. His practice combines extensive public and private-sector experience, and he has participated in the development of public policy and legislation relating to infrastructure concessions, capital markets, domestic taxation and international taxation.

Ricardo served as Director of the Chilean Internal Revenue Service and represented Chile’s Minister of Finance before the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs. He also advised the Government of Paraguay through an Inter-American Development Bank tax reform program and participated in the negotiation of double taxation treaties and investment protection agreements.

In private practice, Ricardo was a partner at Carey and later at Ernst & Young, where he was responsible for Tax Policy for the Americas and served as a global Tax Policy partner for the mining industry. In 2013, he co-founded Bofill Escobar Silva Abogados, where he practiced until the firm ceased operations at the emend 2025.

In 2026, he co-founded ESYF Abogados.

Ricardo has served as a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and as a member of the Board of the Chilean Bar Association.

He is a professor at the University of Chile Law School, where he hast tought Tax Law and Introduction to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. He is also a visiting professor in the LL.M. program at the University of Miami, where he teaches the seminar “Taxation of Business Transactions in Latin America.”

Ricardo obtained his law degree from the University of Chile and an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley.