Tomás Kubick > Cuatrecasas > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Cuatrecasas‘ restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice has extensive experience in complex business crises, including cross-border insolvencies. ‘Very skilled in insolvency and restructuring issues’, the team also advises creditors, debtors, management teams and shareholders on deal restructurings and production unit sales. The multidisciplinary group is further able to leverage the firm’s expertise in litigation, finance and M&A. Practice leader Gianfranco Lotito regularly advises lenders and investors on distress-related scenarios involving company restructurings, liquidity injections and M&A. Tomás Kubick and Alfonso Ugarte (currently located in the firm’s New York office) are additional partner-level contacts for insolvency work – particularly cross-border matters in the case of Ugarte); while principal associate Andrés Lafuente specializes in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, particularly in relation to insolvency proceedings (bankruptcy reorganisation and liquidation).

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.