HD Legal

Highly experienced in the creation and implementation of compliance programmes, HD Legal‘s six-strong team routinely assists with the detection and mitigation of criminal risks, such as corruption, financial crimes, illegal competition and tax crimes. The firm is also home to specialists in corporate criminal liability involving consumer violations, data protection, information security, labour law, and environmental issues. It additionally advises companies on the establishment of mechanisms that promote diversity and inclusion, including assistance with the incorporation of transsexual workers in companies. Of particular note, the firm’s sister organisation HD Compliance is a compliance consulting firm that certifies companies’ compliance programmes. Recent highlights include advising retirement fund managing company, Caja de Compensación de Asignación Familiar de los Andes, on updating its crime prevention model. The group also assisted Chilean public bank BancoEstado Microempresas with developing a protocol that established behaviour-related guidelines for the workplace. The practice is headed up by Rebeca Zamora, who has extensive experience in advising on the design and implementation of compliance programmes; and José Luis Honorato is an arbitration and dispute resolution specialist. At director level, the career of financial sector expert Carlos Frías includes working as a Moneda Asset Management general counsel and compliance manager.