Miguel Coddou > Guerrero Olivos > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

The 17-member banking and finance department at Guerrero Olivos is regularly mandated for cross-border project and acquisition financings, as well as debt restructuring deals. Such work frequently involves structured products and syndicated lending facilities. The team particularly excels in heavily-documented New York law-governed deals that comprise underlying collateral or credit enhancements. In recent highlights, the team was especially active in cross-border refinancings involving renewable energy portfolios. The ‘sophisticated‘ practice is co-led by syndicated loan, debt restructuring and project finance specialist Miguel Coddou; Jorge Delpiano, who advises on structured and acquisition financing deals; and international financing expert Juan Enrique Allard. Elevated to the partnership in February 2022 and January 2023, respectively, César Gálvez is a banking, finance, capital markets, corporate and M&A lawyer; and Benjamín Novoa assists with energy and mining sector-related syndicated loans and project finance. Within the firm’s associate pool, Sofía Middleton specialises in syndicated loans, debt-restructuring and project finance deals, while Florencia Cortés is active in project and acquisition finance work.

Recent highlights for Guerrero Olivos‘ sizeable data privacy group include advising Chinese technology-sector player Newegg on the review of its privacy policy. The experienced team is also drawing in new clients such as the UK’s Featurespace, along with Chilean tech start-ups Vinko and Dogkas. Beyond the TMT sector, the data privacy department advises financial services multinational Western Union on data privacy regulations. Other notable areas include assisting with cross-border data regulation compliance and the regulations applicable to data centres. Co-heading the group are Juan Enrique Allard, whose TMT practice takes in data privacy work; Miguel Coddou, a key adviser in the firm’s data protection, banking, finance, new technologies and corporate teams; and Eduardo Cordero, who heads the public law and regulated markets group. At associate level, senior Diego Morandé and Alejandra Leiton both maintain active data privacy practices.

‘Great for its commitment to clients’, Guerrero Olivos’ 16-member department routinely advises on the financing and development of significant energy and infrastructure projects, as well as the acquisition and sales of projects. On the energy side, the team is highly experienced in solar, wind, power plant, green hydrogen and LNG regasification terminal projects. The firm’s expertise further extends to projects involving desalination and water supply facilities, transport infrastructure (roads and -more recently- cable cars), and social infrastructure such as hospitals. The practice’s key advisers are energy and infrastructure project expert Clemente Pérez; Sebastián Abogabir, who acts for energy companies and international lenders on the financing, development and permitting of non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) projects; Miguel Coddou, who assists with lender-side project financings; and recently-raised partner Felipe Frühling, whose energy sector credentials encompass solar power and green hydrogen projects. Promoted to partner in January 2023, Benjamín Novoa is a project finance expert, while senior associate  Francisca Pellegrini specialises in the development of energy projects.

The fourteen-strong capital markets practice at Guerrero Olivos ranges from debt and equity issuances, to structuring investments funds and fund managers (as well as their transactions). It also assists mutual and public investment fund managers with the registration and placement of private and public funds in the Chilean market. Among the group’s several active advisers, Jorge Delpiano assists banks and financial institutions with ongoing capital markets issues; Pedro Pellegrini is a capital markets’ transactional expert; Miguel Coddou advises on domestic debt offerings, international securities issuances and senior guaranteed notes, along with capital markets regulatory work; and Pedro Lyon is a specialist in assisting foreign investors with trading in local securities. César Gálvez, who was raised to the partnership in early 2022; senior associate Sebastián Marambio and associate Diego Rodríguez also all advise on capital markets matters.