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Baraona Fischer & Cia is a leader among top-tier legal firms. Its recognized tax, corporate and finance teams are known for providing effective solutions in a fast-changing business and regulatory environment.

The firm gathers a diverse professional team in various practice areas, with a commitment to excellence, innovation and team work. It is led by partners and senior associates with a vast and prestigious professional background in Chile and abroad, combining highly innovative, comprehensive and business-oriented solutions, with close, reliable and continuous legal support to its clients.

Baraona Fischer & Cia’s tax practice is led by its senior partner Juan Manuel Baraona, and headed by Alex Fischer. Both have been consistently ranked, along with the firm as a whole, in the top-tier of most international law firm rankings; as well as being elected as ‘Firm of the Year’ in some of them. Partners Carolina Collantes, Isabel Espinoza, Boris Leon and Juan Cristobal Ortega are actively engaged by major local and international clients in a broad spectrum of tax-advisory areas, including general corporate matters, M&A transactions, financings, transfer pricing and estate planning and structuring. The firm also boasts a tax-litigation team that, with a conflict-resolution approach, is regularly engaged in complex and high-profile matters.

Also, Baraona Fischer & Cia is the only law-firm providing tax-compliance services as an integral part of its tax team. The increasing complexity and sophistication required to comply with tax laws and regulations is key to the strategic decision of integrating tax-compliance services to tax advisory practice.

The general corporate practice is led by founding partner Juan Pablo Baraona. The firm has advised and counseled local and international clients in numerous transactions involving mergers, acquisitions, business associations, joint ventures, tenders, sales and purchases of assets, bidding processes, tender offers, in all sort of economic sectors and industries. Additionally, it has led the structuring and development of venture capital and private entrepreneurship projects of all sizes and in all areas of industry, providing innovative and creative solutions in each case.

The financing and capital markets team has earned significant experience participating in several projects, including financing facilities in a broad array of types, purpose and complexity. It has also actively partaken in the developing banking regulation, derivatives, governmental and corporate financing, capital markets projects and in the trading of securities, bonds and commercial papers. It has worked in pioneering projects such as securitizations, negotiable instrument offerings and synthetic structures; together with advising on bills of law and legislature for different administrations.

Altogether, Baraona Fischer & Cia offers a reliable and solid support to its clients in all areas of general corporate practice, whether on specific matters and cases or their permanent needs within their regular business activities. The firm’s practice covers commercial contracting, labor matters, compliance and in general all such aspects pertaining to the corporate legal needs, with a permanent and consistent focus on the clients’ strategies and legal risk management.

In all, Baraona Fischer & Cia is a major player within the business-law service market, offering the full spectrum of business-oriented legal solutions.