Francisco Guzmán > Carey > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Carey‘s ‘M&A team has extensive experience and knowledge’. The enormous 66-member group (including 14 partners) is widely lauded for its structuring of high-stakes M&A transactions for multinationals and funds. The full-service corporate and transactional practice also advises foreign companies when investing in Chile for the first time, along with domestic and Latin American companies expanding their businesses throughout Chile and the region. The group’s M&A coverage encompasses takeovers through public offerings, minority share purchases, the acquisition of companies and asset packages in various jurisdictions, private equity deals, and insolvency and reorganisation scenarios. The practice contains several experienced partners, including: firm chair and renowned M&A and corporate law expert Jorge Carey; managing partner Jaime Carey T who advises on both foreign investment transactions and tax; corporate law, M&A and foreign investment specialist; Pablo Iacobelli; Salvador Valdés, whose ‘leadership and experience are unmatched’; and highly-regarded M&A practitioner Francisco Ugarte. The extensive partner-level group further includes Marcos Ríos, Guillermo Acuña, Cristián Eyzaguirre, Jorge Ugarte, Francisco Guzmán, Cristián Figueroa, Patricia Silberman, Alejandra Daroch and Jaime Carey Jr, all of whom play pivotal roles within the M&A team. In the firm’s senior associate ranks, Josefina Marshall is experienced in M&A, foreign investment, international trade, and corporate and commercial law.

According to certain clients Carey‘s ‘venture capital team is the strongest in Chile’. The full-service firm fields a 13-strong practice that has extensive experience in supporting start-ups at both initial and internationalisation stages. The group also routinely acts for entrepreneurs and young companies at every stage of their growth, including seed capital, early-stage, Series A, late-stage, and growth equity rounds; and it further comprises experts in venture debt, angel rounds and technology transfers. The team additionally advises domestic and international venture capital funds on the purchase and sale of companies. With a ‘strategic mindset and undeniable leadership skills’, practice leader and current President of the Chilean Venture Capital Association, Francisco Guzmán, is an adviser to large corporate ventures on their investments in technology start-ups; and also assists start-ups with their internationalisation processes. Guzmán is supported by Guillermo Carey, who advises high-impact entrepreneurs on both developing globally and as regards technology transfers. At associate level, Sebastián Melero advises on private equity and venture capital transactions; Carlos Alcalde assists companies with their Chilean operations and financing rounds; Andrés Latorre‘s experience includes advising investor Manutara Ventures on a financing round for Xepelin Holdings; and Carolina Miller focuses on both venture capital and fintech work.