Álvaro Caviedes Barahona

PARTNER

Alvaro practice covers corporate, telecommunications, finance, M&A, integral assistance to businesses, corporate governance, project finance, debt and capital issues.

  • Chief Legal Officer (2005 – 2013), CEO (2014) and board member (2008 – 2017) of the Copesa Group.
  • Legal Advisor to the Saieh Group (2005 – present).
  • President of the National Press Association (2010 – 2014).
  • Vice-President of the National Press Association (2014 – present).
  • Council Member of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (2012 – present).
  • Chairman of the Labor Committee of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (2018 – present).
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Press Association.
  • Vice-Chairman of the Committee on the Freedom of the Press and Information (IAPA) (2015 – present). 
  • President of the Social Communication Media Federation of Chile (2013).
  • Board member of several companies.
  • Professor of Commercial Law, University of the Andes Law School, Chile (1997 – 2011).
  • Professor of Information Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Law School (2012).
  • Member of the Executive Board and Professor in the Master in Business Law Program at Universidad de Los Andes (1998 – 2010).

Education

  • Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law. Admitted in 1995.
  • LL.M., University of Chicago, U.S.A. (1997).