Founding Partner, Baraona - Abogados / Chile - Switzerland

Spiess holds a law degree from the Catholic Pontifical University of Chile and a master’s degree in law from the University of Virginia in the U.S. He is currently a partner at Baraona – Abogados law firm. Before this, he worked for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and Frankfurt. He has advised the Chilean Ministry of Finance on public financing, derived instruments and corporate governance projects. Spiess is also part of the World Bank’s panel of experts and leads a project on pensions and capital markets reform for the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Ministry of Finance of Paraguay. He has also been a professor of commercial law, capital markets, finance and corporate governance, stock markets and corporate direction at a number of Chilean universities. [Chile – Switzerland] @maxspiess