Juan Pablo Schwencke

Juan Pablo Schwencke is a leading business lawyer and advisor in Chile and the region. He has lived in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, New York and Miami, gaining a tremendous cross-border experience blended with deep local knowledge. During his career of over 25 years, he has successfully represented clients in several M&A transactions, project financing, debt and insolvency restructuring, international litigation, arbitration and tax matters. Juan Pablo Schwencke has been a partner of PAGBAM SCHWENCKE Chile since 2020. Prior to this, he was founding partner of Schwencke & Cia, partner of Barros Letelier & Cía. and associate lawyer of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in the New York and Frankfurt offices. He is also a director of several companies with activities in Chile and some with regional scope. In addition, he is a permanent columnist in La Segunda, a newspaper in Chile specialised in politics and business, and has carried out academic activities at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, at the Law School of the Universidad Diego Portales and at the Business School of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Juan Pablo Schwencke holds a Law Degree from the Universidad de Chile, and an L.L.M. from the Columbia University Law School, New York, USA.