He specializes in providing legal advice on compliance, anticorruption, and prevention of asset laundering and terrorism financing. 

His experience also covers different areas of general corporate law, including company law, risk capital, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder disputes. 

On the compliance team, Diego is in charge of developing, supervising and monitoring compliance programs. He participates in preparing manuals, policies and codes of ethics, and trains personnel on asset laundering prevention. He also advises clients on filing suspicious transaction reports and on inspections by the National Secretariat for Anti-Asset Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (SENACLAFT).

In his risk capital practice he provides legal advice to entrepreneurs, angel investors, risk capital funds, and the Uruguayan government. He played a key role in the implementation of the Uruguay Innovation Hub program and advises major local risk capital institutions, such as Asociación Uruguaya de Capital Privado (Urucap) and Endeavor. In his experience at FERRERE, he has participated in some of the most important mergers and acquisitions in the Uruguayan market.

Diego earned his degree as attorney from Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, and holds an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary University of London, with specialization in Finance Law, Corporate Governance and China Business Law. He also has various certifications in Prevention of Asset Laundering and Terrorism Financing, and anticorruption.