Carey elects two new partners

Chilean law firm Carey has elected Patricia Silberman and Manuel José Garcés as its new partners, bringing the firm’s total number to 34.  

Patricia (pictured) focusses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, national and international financing and capital markets. She graduated from Universidad de Chile and holds an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice law in Chile and the United States. After starting her professional career at Carey, she worked for five years as an associate of an important New York law firm (2006–2011).

Currently, she is an arbitrator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and a member of the International Steering Committee of the Women in the Profession (WIP) Program of the Vance Center.  

Manuel José focusses on tax consulting, advising large multinationals on foreign investment processes and business reorganizations, as well as on their defense in tax audits and complex litigation cases.

He graduated from the Universidad Católica, and holds a graduate degree in tax law from the Universidad Diego Portales (2010) and an LLM in international taxation from the University of Florida).

From 2013 to 2018, Manuel José was a professor in tax law at master’s level at the Universidad Diego Portales.

He is a frequent lecturer in seminars, both in Chile and abroad, including conferences about tax law for the International Bar Association (IBA).