CMS Carey & Allende

Corporate/M&A | Energy | Projects & Infrastructure

Adolfo is a senior associate in the Corporate/M&A team at CMS Carey & Allende. His practice focuses on cross-border M&A and private equity, with an emphasis on energy, infrastructure and technology. He acts for international sponsors, infrastructure funds and strategic investors on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures in Chile and across Latin America. He runs transactions from due diligence and structuring through SPA negotiation, R&W insurance and closing, and regularly coordinates multi-jurisdictional deals across the CMS network.

Recent work includes advising:

• Global Infrastructure Partners (BlackRock), AIP and MGX on the Chilean aspects of their acquisition of Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management;

• Visma on three consecutive SaaS acquisitions across Chile, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia, including Talana;

• the sellers on the sale of Los Guindos Generación to Generadora Metropolitana and a Trafigura affiliate;

• The Heritage Group on the Chilean aspects of its cross-border acquisition of FORTA; and

• KKR on its USD 1 billion fiber-optic network acquisition in Chile and on subsequent transactions in the country.

In 2024–2025 he was an international visiting attorney in the Corporate Transactions team at CMS in London, focusing on energy and infrastructure M&A.

Adolfo is admitted in Chile and New York. He co-authored the Chile chapter of the Chambers Global Practice Guide: Energy & Infrastructure M&A 2025 and contributes to the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Energy Advisor and LexLatin.

Key clients: KKR, GE Vernova, Visma, Schörghuber Group (SHKG).

2017 – Admitted to practice in Chile
2018 – Joined CMS Carey & Allende as associate
2024–2025 – International visiting attorney, Corporate Transactions team, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, London
2025 – Promoted to senior associate
2026 – Admitted to the New York Bar
2026 – Recognized as a Leading Associate, Corporate and M&A: High end, The Legal 500 Latin America 2027

English, Spanish

2017 – Law Degree, magna cum laude, Universidad de los Andes
2024 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), Columbia Law School