Javier D\u00edaz is a partner at Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz whose practice focuses on financial and capital markets regulation, fintech and payments, corporate governance, compliance and regulatory proceedings. He regularly advises domestic and international companies, financial institutions and other regulated entities, issuers, asset managers, insurance companies and fintech businesses on complex regulatory matters, licensing and authorization processes, the structuring of new businesses, corporate governance and transactions involving significant financial or regulatory components. He also represents clients in investigations and proceedings before financial regulators and advises on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions involving regulated industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to joining Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz, Javier spent ten years as an attorney with the Securities Division of Chile\u2019s Superintendency of Securities and Insurance (SVS), now the Financial Market Commission (CMF). During his tenure, he participated in registration and authorization proceedings involving issuers, securities and regulated entities, investigations and enforcement matters relating to violations of Chilean securities laws, and the drafting of legislation, regulations and other financial regulatory rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Javier serves as Chairman of ChilePay, an industry organization bringing together leading participants in Chile\u2019s payments ecosystem. He also represented the Government of Chile before the UNIDROIT Committee of Governmental Experts responsible for the preparation of the Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities and served as a member of its Drafting Committee.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":248,"template":"","meta":{"_bye_sort_name":"D\u00edaz Vel\u00e1squez, Javier","_bye_role":"Socio","_bye_email":"jdiaz@bye.cl","_bye_phone":"+562 23788987","_bye_photo_card":245,"_bye_vcard":246,"_bye_areas":[7,52,86,92,98,22,59,56,19,49],"_bye_languages":["Espa\u00f1ol","Ingl\u00e9s","Franc\u00e9s"],"_bye_education":[{"title":"Master\u2019s Degree in Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany","date":"2003"},{"title":"Postgraduate Diploma in Economics and Finance for Lawyers, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile","date":"1996"},{"title":"Law Degree, Universidad de Chile School of Law, Santiago, Chile","date":"1997"}],"_bye_experience":[{"title":"Socio, Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz","date":"desde 2014"},{"title":"Abogado asociado, Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz","date":"2007\u20132013"},{"title":"Attorney, Securities Division, Superintendency of Securities and Insurance (SVS), now the Financial Market Commission (CMF)","date":"1997\u20132007"},{"title":"Professional internship, Securitization Practice, Hengeler Mueller Rechtsanw\u00e4lte, Frankfurt am Main, Germany","date":"2003"}],"_bye_academic":["Delegado del Gobierno de Chile ante el Comit\u00e9 de Expertos Gubernamentales de UNIDROIT encargado de la preparaci\u00f3n de la Convenci\u00f3n sobre Valores Intermediados; integrante de su Comit\u00e9 de Redacci\u00f3n (2005\u20132006)","Delegado del Gobierno de Chile ante el Grupo de Trabajo CIDIP VII de la Organizaci\u00f3n de los Estados Americanos sobre garant\u00edas mobiliarias y registros electr\u00f3nicos para la implementaci\u00f3n de la Ley Modelo Interamericana sobre Garant\u00edas Mobiliarias (2006)"],"_bye_memberships":[],"_bye_awards":["Band 4, Chambers Latin America 2027, Chile, Compliance","IFLR1000 2021 \u2013 Notable Practitioner, Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity; Corporate\/M&A"],"_bye_publications":["Coautor, Manual para Directores de Sociedades An\u00f3nimas: una aproximaci\u00f3n pr\u00e1ctica a su funci\u00f3n y responsabilidades, Libromar, Santiago, 2025","Las garant\u00edas sobre valores mobiliarios en la Convenci\u00f3n de UNIDROIT sobre valores intermediados, DeCITA, vol. 7\u20138, Brasil, 2007"],"_bye_old_id":9751,"_bye_old_path":"\/abogado_socio\/diaz-velasquez-javier\/","_bye_translation":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/abogado_socio\/diaz-velasquez-javier\/?lang=en","footnotes":""},"grupo":[2],"etiqueta":[],"industria":[14,16,48,49,54,58],"class_list":["post-247","persona","type-persona","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/persona"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grupo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grupo?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"industria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industria?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}