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Jorge Carey

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Santiago,  Chile
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Practice Areas

  • Business Law
  • Finance
  • Government
  • Investments
 
Mailing AddressIsidora Goyenechea 2800 - Floor 43 - Las Condes, 832-0198, Santiago, Chile, 7550647
 
EducationNew York University Law School, New York, U.S.A. (Master in Comparative Jurisprudence, 1967)
 
Admitted1966, Chile
 
Born1942
 
Biography

Jorge Carey is the present senior partner of Carey y Cía. His practice focuses on corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and international arbitration.

Mr. Carey is a non-executive chairman and member of the board of directors of several publicly traded corporations, including Melón, Enaex, Danone, Masisa, Compañía Minera Quebrada Blanca and Moneda Chile Fund. He is also a member of the National Television Review Board (CNTV)- to which he was appointed by the President of Chile with the unanimous approval of the Senate- and Vice-Chairman of the Center for American and International Law in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. Additionally, he is Conciliator of the Center for the Settlement of International Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., designated by the Chilean Government for the 2005-2011 period and member of the panel of arbitrators of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago.

Mr. Carey has served as staff attorney of both the International Monetary Fund and the International Finance Corporation in Washington D.C., as a Professor of Economic Law at the Universidad Católica de Chile's School of Law, as chairman of both the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce and the Canada Chile Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the board of AMCHAM. In addition to authoring several legal publications, including "Debt to Equity Conversion: a Chilean Legal View" (1988), Mr. Carey is a frequent lecturer in legal seminars, meetings and conferences, both in Chile and abroad. He is a member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Mr. Carey devotes substantial time to philanthropic and pro bono activities. Currently, he is a member of Corporación del Patrimonio Cultural.

In 2007 Chambers and Partners Legal Publishers awarded him with Chamber's Global "Lifetime Achievement Award". In 2008, LatinLawyer Magazine selected Mr. Jorge Carey as 2008's Law Firm Leader of the Year.

Mr. Carey attended the Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law, where he graduated as first in his class in 1965, having won the Tocornal, Montenegro and Gutiérrez Alliende awards. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the New York University Law School, from which he received a Master's Degree in Comparative Jurisprudence.

He is fluent in Spanish and English.

 
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Jorge Carey
Carey y Cía
Isidora Goyenechea 2800 - Floor 43 - Las Condes
Santiago,  7550647
 

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