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Matías Zegers

Matías Zegers

Managing Partner
Matías Zegers leads large corporate M&A projects with extraordinary planning, and with interdisciplinary teams from several countries — achieves formidable results. He is an exceptional lawyer — committed, with extraordinary experience in corporate matters.
— Legal 500 Latin America, 2025
Santiago
About

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.

Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsEmerging Growth and Venture CapitalFintechPrivate EquityTechnologyIndustrials
Bar admissionsChile, 1995

EXPERIENCE

Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. in the divestiture of the business of operating pharmacies and health and beauty stores under the trade name Farmacias Ahumada with more than 300 stores throughout the country
  • Giddings Fruit on the sale of 100% of the shares owned by the company's shareholders to Frutura LLC, a well-known global agricultural and exportation company based in California (USA)
  • Carsales.com Ltd in acquiring 50.1% of Autofact, an online platform that complements the car sales process by providing verified information on the vehicle being sold
  • IMCD N.V. in structuring, negotiating, and signing a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Blumos Group Companies
  • Modyo on the sale of 100% of its equity interest to Harris Holdings Chile SpA. The buyer is a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX: CSU)
  • Vestuá in its share acquisition by H&M Fashion AB, one of the largest clothes companies in the fashion industry. In addition, in an aggregate investment of USD 2,105,000 via equity in the UK
  • Uber and Cornershop as joint counsel, in acquiring a majority stake in Cornershop by Uber Technologies, Inc. This deal was awarded as Deal of the Year in Private M&A by Latin Lawyer 2021
  • The Coca-Cola Company - Andina - Embonor (USA - Chile) on the purchase of 100% of Comercializadora Novaverde S.A.- “Guallarauco” (USD 80 million).
Venture Capital 
  • Admetricks SpA in the sale of 100% of the shares owned by the company’s shareholders to Similarweb UK Ltd., an affiliate of the leading data analytics company Similarweb Ltd (NYSE:SMWB)
  • Wild Foods negotiated and prepared a US$25 million Series A investment round led by Glisco Partners, a Mexican private investment organization
  • SQM Lithium Ventures on different investment rounds via equity, SAFE, pre-seed, and Series A in Altilium Metals Limited, Electric Era Technologies, The Yield Lab Latam Opportunity Fund, L.P., Remote Waters, Salinity Solutions, Movener, Terraline, Chass, among others
  • Fen Ventures III Fund LP on different investment rounds via equity, SAFE, pre-seed, and Series A in Xeptiva Therapeutics, Kunzapp, Human Forest, Splight, Michroma, Vita Wallet, Praxis Biotech LLC, Dapta, Moovin, BioEutectics Corporation, Diio SpA among others
Corporate Governance
  • Aguas Andinas and Inversiones Aguas Metropolitana (IAM) on corporate governance structure, policies, and framework
Languages
  • Spanish
  • English
Education

  • LL.M., The University of Michigan Law School, 2002

  • Law Degree, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, School of Law, 1994

Awards

Chambers Global

  • Band 3, Chile: Corporate/M&A, (2024–2025)
  • Band 4, Chile: Corporate/M&A, (2021–2023)
  • Band 5, Chile: Corporate/M&A, (2019–2020)

Chambers Latin America

  • Band 1, Chile: Venture Capital, (2022, 2024–2025)
  • Band 3, Chile: Corporate/M&A, (2024–2025)
  • Band 4, Chile: Corporate/M&A, (2021–2023)
  • Band 5, Chile: Corporate/M&A, (2018–2020)

Chambers FinTech

  • Band 1, Chile: FinTech Legal, (2022–2025)

Legal 500 Latin America

  • Hall of Fame, Chile: Corporate and M&A, (2025)
  • Leading Individual, Chile: Corporate and M&A, (2022–2024)
  • Rising Star, Chile: Corporate and M&A, (2021)
  • Hall of Fame, Chile: Venture Capital, (2023–2025)
  • Leading Individual, Chile: Venture Capital, (2021–2022)
  • Recommended, Chile: Capital Markets, (2021–2025)
  • Recommended, Chile: Banking and Finance, (2022–2025)
  • Recommended, Chile: Data Privacy, (2024–2025)

Legal 500 Chile

  • Lawyer of the Year, Chile, (2024)
  • Firm of the Year, Corporate/M&A: Mid-market, (2023)

Additional Recognitions
  • "Consecrated Expert," Corporate Governance, Leading Lawyers - Idealis, (2024)
  • "The professional who knows the most," Venture Capital, Leading Lawyers - Idealis, (2021)
  • "The most knowledgeable," Corporate Governance, Leading Lawyers - Idealis, (2020)
  • Excellent, Private Equity, Startups & Innovation, Leaders League, (2020)
  • Leading, Startups & Venture Capital, Leaders League, (2022–2024)
  • Highly Recommended, Intellectual Property: Technology, Leaders League, (2020–2024)
  • Highly Recommended, Corporate and M&A, Leaders League, (2020–2023)
  • Highly Recommended, Banking and Finance, Leaders League, (2022–2023)
  • Recommended, Banking and Finance, Leaders League, (2020–2021)
  • Leading, Startups & Venture Capital, Leaders League, (2021)
  • Excellent, Startups & Venture Capital, Leaders League, (2020)
  • Highly Recommended, Innovation, Technology and Telecoms: Telecommunications, Leaders League, (2020–2021)
  • Excellent, FinTech, Leaders League, (2021–2023)
  • Highly Recommended, FinTech, Leaders League, (2020)
  • Corporate and M&A, Latin Lawyer 250, (2019–2025)
  • Banking and Finance, Latin Lawyer 250, (2021–2022)
  • Corporate Governance, Latin Lawyer 250, (2019–2021)
  • Anticorruption Investigation and Compliance, Latin Lawyer 250, (2019–2021)
  • Highly Regarded, M&A, IFLR1000 Latin America, (2019–2024)
  • Highly Regarded, Private Equity, IFLR1000 Latin America, (2019–2024)
  • Highly Regarded, Capital Markets, IFLR1000 Latin America, (2019–2024)
  • FinTech & Blockchain: FinTech, Who's Who Legal, (2023)
  • Corporate and M&A and Acquisition Law, Best Lawyers, (2019–2025)
  • Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice, Best Lawyers, (2019–2025)
  • Venture Capital Law, Best Lawyers, (2019–2025)
  • Private Equity Law, Best Lawyers, (2020–2025)
  • Approved, Capital Markets, Latin American Corporate Counsel Association, (2019–2022)
  • Corporate and M&A, Latin Lawyer National, (2019–2020)
  • Corporate Governance, Latin Lawyer National, (2019–2020)
  • Anticorruption Investigations and Compliance, Latin Lawyer National, (2019–2020)
  • Banking and Finance, Latin Lawyer National, (2019–2020)

Pro Bono

  • Director, Carlos Vial Espantoso Foundation

Publications

  • Co-author, "Manual on Corporate Law," UC Edition, Second Edition, 2022
  • Co-author, "Corporate Interest, Directors' Duty of Loyalty and Conflicts of Interest in Multinational Companies: A Comparative Analysis with the Legislation of the United States of America," Chilean Law Gazette, Vol.31 N°2, 2004
     

Media Mentions

PODCASTS

Prior Experience

  • Other Major Chilean Firms, (1993-2001, 2003-2006)
  • American Multinational Law Firm, New York, (2002-2003)

Teaching Experience

  • Professor of Commercial Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, School of Law, (1997-present)
  • Professor of Mergers and Acquisitions in postgraduate programs, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, School of Law
  • Professor of Corporate Governance in postgraduate programs, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, School of Law
  • Director, Department of Commercial, Economic and Tax Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, School of Law, (2009-2019)
  • Executive Chairman, Corporate Governance Center UC, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, (2009-present)
  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, School of Law, (2016-2017)

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Chilean Bar Association
  • International Bar Association (IBA)
  • Member, Latin American Roundtable in Corporate Governance, OECD
  • Member, Task Force for Related Party Transactions, OECD

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