Mergers and Acquisitions
Jorge Carey
President Emeritus of Carey. His practice focuses on corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and international arbitration.
Diego Peralta
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Banking and Finance Group.
Pablo Iacobelli
Managing Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions Group. His practice is focused on advising national and international clients in the areas of corporate law, M&A transactions, securities, agribusiness, insurance and foreign investment.
Salvador Valdés
Partner at Carey, focusing on corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and restructuring. He advises international and local clients on corporate acquisition and restructuring processes, association or joint venture agreements, design and support for corporate governance structures, and public or private offerings of securities in the local and international markets. He is a frequent advisor to investment and private equity funds on the acquisition, structuring and financing of strategic companies and infrastructure projects. He also regularly advises banks and financial consultants such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, BNP Paribas and LarraínVial on the structuring of transactions, financial products and derivatives.
Francisco Ugarte
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions / Capital Markets / Banking & Finance Groups. His practice focuses on advising international and local clients in M&A and private equity transactions, including tender offers, joint ventures, debt issuances, public and private offering of securities, derivatives and project development.
Marcos Ríos
Partner of Carey and co-head of the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions / Insurance / Government Procurement Groups.
Guillermo Acuña
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions and Compliance Groups. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, national and international corporate financing, foreign investment, and insurance. Also, he has vast experience in aviation law matters including purchase contracts, various forms of leasing (dry lease and wet lease), aircraft and engines financing contracts and in specific issues of air operations. Additionally, he advises local and foreign companies on compliance matters, including anti-corruption policies and programs, preventive models, internal investigations and criminal corporate liability.
Cristián Eyzaguirre
Partner at Carey and co-head of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets Groups. His practice focuses on advising local and international clients—with a particular presence in the mining, infrastructure, and healthcare industries—in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital. The foregoing is combined with extensive practice on joint ventures, shareholders agreements and corporate governance in general. With respect to capital markets, he advises issuers, investors and brokers, with a special focus on fund formation, structuring, registration and management of investment funds.
Jorge Ugarte
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm's Corporate / Mergers and Acquisitions / Capital Markets Group. He advises international and local clients on all kinds of M&A transactions, including the purchase and sale of companies, negotiation of shareholders agreements, partnership agreements, joint ventures, reorganizations and corporate governance. He also acts as counsel to families and business groups on control structures and the corporate succession planning of their businesses.Jorge is professor of Civil Law and former professor of Corporate Law of Universidad Católica de Chile and author of the book "Share Transfer Agreements".
Francisco Guzmán
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Venture Capital / Private Equity / Fintech and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. He also leads Carey office in Miami. His practice focuses on representing local and foreign clients in mergers and acquisitions of companies, creation and structuring of investment funds, and investment in portfolio companies. He has vast experience in the internationalization of companies, international investments and cross-border operations.
Cristián Figueroa
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions / Capital Markets Group.
Patricia Silberman
Partner of Carey and co-head of the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets Group.
Alejandra Daroch
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions / Banking & Finance / Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring / Capital Markets Groups. Her practice focuses primarily on advising international and local clients in mergers and acquisitions, including negotiated transactions, auction processes, mergers, joint ventures, private equity, securities and debt offerings, distressed mergers and acquisitions and debt restructurings, derivatives and on the financing and development, representing both banks and financial institutions and debtors.
Jaime Carey A.
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. His practice focuses primarily on M&A transactions, corporate and commercial law, public works bidding processes, capital markets and international trade.
Deals
- In Mergers and Acquisitions, Carey has advised the following companies:
- Falabella
- Enel Chile
- Grupo Axo
- Hapag-Lloyd
- Omers Chile Holdings I and Enagás Chile
- Celeo Redes and APG Energy Infra Investments
- Mountain Capital Partners
- The shareholders of Ecocopter
- Urbaser
- Liberty Latin America
- Patria Investments
Team Services
Carey is a leader in structuring mergers and acquisitions, advising multinationals, funds and foreign companies, local and Latin American companies.
- Integral advise in negotiations: Assistance in structuring of taxes, financing, corporate governance, collaborative agreements (joint ventures, strategic alliances) and commercial relationships.
- Extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions: Experience in takeovers, minority share purchases, acquisitions of companies in various jurisdictions, private equity, regulated industries and insolvency.
- Corporate governance expertise: Assistance to public and private companies in compliance under local law, shareholders agreements, governance policies, related party transactions, board and committee composition, succession and removal processes and crisis management.
Client testimonials
Legal 500
‘A strong team, very agile in its responses, and with good knowledge of the issues that are typically addressed during M&A processes. Clients highlight the commitment to the client and the total willingness to work extended hours, weekends etc.’
Legal 500
‘The quality of the professionals is outstanding, not only in their level of experience and knowledge, but also in their temperance when facing complex and delicate moments that arise during negotiations.’
Awards and Recognition
LEGAL 500
Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A