Jaime Carey > 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.

The tax practitioners at full-service market stalwart Carey ‘understand the tax environment in Chile very well and obtain good results’. Consisting of a multidisciplinary group of lawyers, certified accountants and an economist, the sizeable, 21-strong tax team is routinely mandated for complex national and international transactions, as well as high-stakes tax litigation, tax planning and tax due diligence processes. The practice, which is also highly experienced in private client work and tax compliance, is co-led by managing partner Jaime Carey T, an advisor to private wealth clients on personal and corporate tax planning, domestic and international tax consulting, and foreign investment transactions; Jessica Power (‘highly recognised by peers throughout the region’), who has extensive experience in tax advisory work, tax planning and tax litigation, along with M&A, restructuring and financing; Manuel José Garcés, an expert in local and international tax, personal and corporate tax planning, foreign investments, and tax litigation; and Manuel Alcalde, who is ‘a great partner with deep knowledge of the area he leads’. In the firm’s associate team, Pedro Gutierrez‘s workload encompasses tax planning, domestic and international taxation, business reorganisation-related tax issues, as well as defending audits and undertaking tax litigation; and Daniela Pfeffer and Diego Hormazábal, both of whom are also experienced tax practitioners.