Macarena Ravinet > Cuatrecasas > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Cuatrecasas‘ sizeable banking and finance practice in Santiago advises a range of financiers on high-level finance transactions. The team is particularly active in restructuring, refinancing, project finance, and banking regulatory matters. The department is co-led by Roberto Guerrero V, whose impressive track record includes deals in the energy, finance, fishing, infrastructure, mining, telecoms, and the food-and-beverage sectors; and ‘super competent‘ project finance and capital markets specialist, Macarena Ravinet. The group also includes structured and distressed finance expert Alfonso Ugarte, who is currently working in the firm’s New York office; and principal associate Federico Espinosa, who advises financial entities, sponsors, borrowers and developers on a broad range of banking and finance matters.

Cuatrecasas‘ 18-strong corporate practice advises on a range of high-end transactions, such as M&A (including distressed matters), joint ventures, commercial agreements, licensing, corporate restructuring, and asset and business transfers. The group’s coverage encompasses due diligence procedures, as well as contract drafting and negotiation. It additionally specialises in private equity and venture capital investments. Recent highlights for the Iberian firm’s Chilean office include deals in the energy, investment, automotive, banking, forestry and mining sectors. The corporate and M&A team is led by Roberto Guerrero V, who also coordinates the capital markets and banking and finance practices in Santiago, and whose track record includes tranactions in the commerce, energy, finance, fishing, infrastructure, mining, telecoms, and the food and beverage sectors. The practice further includes M&A specialist Michel Diban, a December 2023 recruit from Morales & Besa, where he was corporate and M&A co-head; national and international M&A expert Macarena Ravinet, whose practice has particular emphasis on the telecoms, food and retail industries; Tomás Kubick, an adviser on the purchase and sale of assets, joint ventures, shareholder agreements and legal structures; and Josefina Yávar, who focuses on domestic and international M&A, venture capital, corporate governance and private equity. The local practice group also works in conjunction with its Bogotá, Lima and Mexico City outposts on a frequent basis, along with the Madrid and New York offices; currently based at the latter, corporate/M&A specialist and Chilean national Alfonso Ugarte frequently works with Santiago-headquartered infrastructure investment fund manager, CMB-Prime. At associate level, principal Franco Dalmazzo also heads the office’s German desk and Pilar Illanes is an up-and-coming intermediate; former senior Fernanda Anguita moved in house in December 2023.