Garrigues Chile

Garrigues Chile's ‘service provided during negotiations is perfect’. The 22-member corporate and M&A practice fuses corporate law, M&A, governance and finance expertise for high-stakes deals in the telecoms, infrastructure, real estate and private equity sectors; and it is notably experienced in the acquisition of energy and mining companies and assets. The team, which has significant expertise in local and cross-border M&A, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures, is led by corporate law and M&A specialist Luis Felipe Merino, whose recent workload includes energy and retail-related transactions. The practice also comprises Rodrigo Fernández, who ’has excellent negotiating skills and outstanding commercial vision’; Jaime de Larraechea, a ‘particularly exceptional lawyer’ for telecoms, infrastructure and private equity-related M&A; and energy and corporate law expert Cristóbal Fainé. In the firm’s principal associate ranks, Hellen Brockway is ’an excellent lawyer with extensive legal knowledge’; Carlos Arias' experience covers corporate and commercial matters, M&A, corporate restructuring, and securities markets; and Constanza Velásquez focuses on M&A, commercial law and real estate. At senior associate level, Diego Torres' practice takes in M&A, commercial law, real estate and family offices; Juan Eduardo Vidal advises on corporate law, commercial contracts, and M&A; and Thomas Dawes assists with M&A, commercial law, corporate governance and sustainable development.