Escribano

What Escribano does

Escribano & Cía. SpA is a Santiago-based professional services firm founded in 2012 that delivers legal, accounting and financial advisory work focused on the Chilean mining sector. The firm operates a multi-disciplinary practice across three verticals — Mining & Suppliers, Accounting & Finance, and Legal Services — serving mining suppliers competing for tenders with majors (notably Codelco), growing companies needing corporate and tax counsel, and firms requiring IFRS-compliant accounting and tax optimization. Revenue streams are a mix of monthly subscription (External Legal Counsel with predictable monthly fees), project-based professional engagements (legal, accounting, mining consulting) and, as of 2024, a managed AI service.

The firm's differentiator is its 2024 AI-powered Procurement Audit & Control product, which performs continuous surveillance over contracts, purchase orders, tenders and payments to detect collusion, nepotism and fraud in mining supply chains. The four-module platform combines anomaly detection with a corporate relationship graph (linking suppliers through shared addresses, legal reps, domains and phone numbers) and is explicitly aligned with Chile's Economic Crimes Act (Law 21,595) and Personal Data Protection Law (Law 21,719). Implementation is phased (2-4 week diagnosis, 4-6 week graph build, then ongoing advanced models), positioning the offering as a Crime Prevention Model tool for mining procurement compliance.

Commercial operation is domestic Chile with a single Vitacura office, direct consultative sales, and a 49-employee organization led by three partners with senior backgrounds at Deloitte Chile, PwC Chile, ACU Abogados, WOM Chile, Minera Escondida, Anglo American, SQM and Codelco. The firm has no disclosed external funding, operates on quote-based pricing across all service lines, and depends on its website and direct outreach for lead generation.

Name

Escribano

Legal name

Escribano & Cía. SpA

Website

https://escribanoycia.cl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Escribano & Cía. is a Santiago-based legal, accounting and financial advisory firm specializing in the Chilean mining sector, serving mining suppliers, growing companies, and firms needing IFRS accounting, with a 2024-launched AI procurement audit product for mining supply chains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Services (Legal, Accounting & Financial Advisory)

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHAFAL

Fraud Risk Management & Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption (ABAC)

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Risk, Compliance & Governance Advisory

SECONDARYBPAHAFAE

Financial Crime, AML/CFT & Sanctions Compliance

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Risk, Compliance & Governance Advisory

Keywords

• Mining legal advisory
• Accounting financial advisory
• Corporate tax law
• Procurement audit AI
• External legal counsel

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. External Legal Counsel Services: Permanent access to specialized lawyers with predictable monthly fees. Service includes unlimited availability by email, phone and video call, recurring contract review, attendance at strategic meetings, and preferential rates for litigation and special projects. Cost savings of up to 60% compared to maintaining a full-time internal lawyer.
2. Accounting and Financial Advisory: Complete accounting services including balance sheet, income statement, monthly closings, payroll administration, and compliance with accounting and tax regulations. Financial advisory including financing alternatives, budget control, and operational KPI determination.
3. Legal Services - Project Based: Specific legal engagements including corporate law, tax law, labor law, litigation and dispute resolution. M&A advisory, incorporation, mergers, acquisitions and shareholder agreements.
4. Mining Consulting Services: Specialized advisory in strategy, tenders, risk management and innovation for mining suppliers. Includes review and negotiation of bases, contracts and guarantees, regulatory compliance implementation, and innovation management.
5. AI Procurement Audit Service: Continuous surveillance service with phased implementation (Diagnosis in 2-4 weeks, Corporate graph in 4-6 weeks, Advanced models ongoing). Includes Risk Watch, Supplier Graph, Case Manager, and Reporting components.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Escribano & Cía. is a Chilean professional services firm providing legal, accounting, and financial advisory specialized in the mining and corporate sector. Its core offerings include external legal counsel on a monthly subscription basis, mining consulting (tenders, regulatory compliance, supplier approval), accounting and tax compliance services, and an AI-powered Procurement Audit & Control service that detects collusion, nepotism, and fraud across mining supply chains through corporate relationship graph analysis.

Product overview

Escribano & Cía. is a legal, accounting, and financial advisory firm specializing in the Chilean mining sector. Its primary AI-enabled product is the Procurement Audit & Control with AI service, a continuous surveillance platform composed of four modules — Risk Watch, Supplier Graph, Case Manager, and Reporting — designed to detect collusion, nepotism, and fraud in mining supply chains. Alongside this technology product, the firm offers a portfolio of professional services: accounting (financial advisory, bookkeeping, and compliance/audit), legal services (corporate, tax, and labor law, plus external legal counsel), and mining consulting (contracts, tenders, regulatory compliance, and innovation management). The AI procurement audit service is distinct from the core advisory offerings and is positioned as a specialized technological component of Crime Prevention Models under Chilean law.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• External Legal Counsel

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 60% cost savings compared to maintaining full-time internal lawyer
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría: Major Latin American law firm with strong Chilean mining and corporate practice. Comparable as a peer firm offering legal counsel to Chilean miners and suppliers.
• Claro y Cía: Chilean law firm with a long-standing mining and natural resources practice. Comparable to Escribano as a domestic legal advisor competing for mining-sector mandates in Santiago.
• Aninat Schwencke & Cía: Chilean law firm with corporate, tax, and mining expertise (and a prior employer of Escribano partner Francisca Baeza). Directly comparable as a similar-sized multidisciplinary legal/tax firm serving Chilean corporates and mining.
• Carey Abogados: Largest Chilean law firm with a deep mining, energy, and natural resources practice serving Codelco, BHP, Anglo American and other majors. Direct comparable as a multidisciplinary legal/accounting/financial advisory firm competing for the same Chilean mining clients.

Others

• SAP Ariba: Enterprise procurement and supplier-risk-management platform used by large miners. Not a direct professional-services competitor but adjacent technology ecosystem that could integrate with or compete against Escribano's AI procurement audit module.

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte Chile: Big Four firm with mining industry practice in Chile and a forensics/risk advisory practice that competes for procurement-fraud and compliance engagements. Broader portfolio than Escribano but overlapping target buyers.
• Baker McKenzie Chile: Global law firm with established mining practice in Chile, advising majors on cross-border transactions. Comparable at the overlap of mining legal services but operates as a much larger global platform.
• KPMG Chile: Big Four firm offering audit, tax, and advisory in Chile including mining-sector engagements. Comparable as a broad incumbent competing for compliance and risk advisory work.
• PwC Chile: Big Four firm with tax, legal, and risk advisory services in Chile (and a prior employer of Escribano's tax/legal partner). Overlaps on tax, accounting, and compliance mandates for mining and corporate clients.
• EY Chile: Big Four firm with a global mining & metals center in Santiago. Comparable at the audit/tax/advisory overlap with mining clients, though far broader in scope than Escribano.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/escribano-y-cia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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