Mr Diego Ferrada > Baker McKenzie Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Baker McKenzie Chile‘s nine-member antitrust team in Santiago has longstanding experience in antitrust issues, including private competition litigation, merger control, and cartel (and other conduct) investigations. It also assists with compliance work and internal investigations. The practice’s client base takes in the banking, healthcare, insurance, retail, infrastructure, aviation, telecoms, and mining sectors; and the local team is additionally able to leverage the firm’s enviable global competition practice across 47 jurisdictions. Heading the firm’s dispute resolution and antitrust practice groups, Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés ‘conveys peace of mind with his advice’; he is flanked by Diego Ferrada, a telecoms and technology specialist. The antitrust experience of associate Juan Ignacio Donoso covers cartels, mergers, abuse of dominance cases and compliance.

With ‘a clear understanding of both business and multinational companies’ requirements’, Baker McKenzie Chile‘s 10-strong team acts for local and international clients on regional and multinational cross-border deals concerning Chile; its sector expertise ranges from real estate, insurance and finance, to natural resources, telecoms, energy, technology and consumer products. The group’s coverage encompasses M&A and joint ventures, and its assistance including post-acquisition integration services, due diligence, antitrust clearance, and debt and equity financing. The practice additionally advises on corporate reorganisations, dissolutions and liquidations, privatisations, commercial contracts and corporate governance. The department is co-led by Jaime Munro, whose broad expertise includes private and public M&A, along with venture capital and private equity deals; corporate and company law practitioner Fernando Castro; M&A expert Diego Ferrada; and Sebastián Vivanco, who advises on M&A alongside his banking and finance practice. Also key to the team, Cristobal Larrain (promoted to partner in July 2023) assists with tender offers, auction processes, joint ventures, private equity investments and corporate restructuring; and of counsel Leon Larrain has longstanding transactional experience. At associate level, senior Martin Müller assists with corporate law mandates, particularly corporate compliance and governance; but Verónica Barrios and Macarena Salazar both left the firm during the course of 2023.