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Jorge Allende
Jorge Allende
Jorge is a senior partner and head of the Mining and Energy & Climate Change teams and co-head of Infrastructure & Projects team for CMS Carey & Allende. He also is very active within the Corporate/M&A practice group. He advises several national and multinational companies in the mining, engineering and construction, energy and natural resources industries. He also has extensive experience in project finance and M&A transactions, particularly in the areas mentioned. Previously, as member of the board  of large companies and knowing the private-sector needs from the inside, he has advised clients in connection with numerous large-scale mining projects in Chile since 1990, including the negotiation of multimillion-dollar EPC and EPCM contracts, acquisition of large mining concessions, foreign investment contracts and project finance deals. Key clients:  Inversiones Alxar (Empresas Copec’s mining assets company), Worley Chile S.A. (former Jacobs Chile), Elecnor (Spain), Nol-Tec Chile, Enagás (Spain), AECOM.
Jorge Allende Destuet
Jorge Allende Destuet
Jorge is partner and the co-head of the Corporate/M&A team. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital market operations, startups, and private equity. He counsels international clients on matters of finance, hospitality, and natural resources. He is also well recognized for his active practice in the capital markets arena and he has regularly participated in cross-border business combination operations, advising both local clients in their expansion endeavours in Latin America, as well as for foreign clients in their businesses in Chile, and in other regions of Latin America. Key clients: Sun Dreams S.A., The Blackstone Group L.P., Enagás S.A., Centerbridge Partners, AquaChile S.A, KKR.
Hannah Cane
Hannah Cane
Hannah is a partner in the insurance group. She is a professional indemnity and dispute resolution lawyer specialising in the defence of high value and complex claims against construction and property professionals, including contractors, architects, engineers, surveyors, planners, property managers and interior designers. She is head of the firm’s construction insurance practice, leading a team of experienced construction insurance lawyers across our national offices.   She acts for many of the major insurers regularly advises on policy coverage. She is a member of the British Property Federation’s Insurance Committee.   Hannah also has significant experience defending other professionals, in particular, solicitors, accountants, brokers and independent financial advisers.   The Legal 500 names Hannah as “tough yet commercially astute” and “incisive in her analysis” and that she “goes out of her way to put the clients’ needs at the heart of the excellent service she delivers”.
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark is a Partner at CMS Vienna and attorney-at-law for Banking & Finance. He has over 25 years’ experience in cross-border financing and real estate transactions and has represented clients on their most important transactions in the CEE and SEE regions and around the globe. In addition to senior secured and unsecured transactions, he has extensive experience advising on construction and subordinated debt matters as well as real estate investment, agricultural and timber funds in their acquisitions and dispositions.
Oliver Dreher
Oliver Dreher
Oliver Dreher, LL.M. (King’s College), is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and Head of the Debt Capital Markets (DCM) practice group in Germany. His main areas of expertise include corporate, bank and sovereign bonds, MTN-, CP- and structured issuance programmes, structured finance products, Schuldschein loans and registered bonds (Namensschuldverschreibungen), derivatives and advising on financial infrastructure, such as the clearing and settlement of financial instruments.
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner is partner and global head of the CMS Public Procurement Group. He is a leading expert in the fields of public procurement, antitrust and public law. He studied law at the University of Vienna and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 1993-94 he worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Constitutional Court for the constitutional judges Prof. Dr. Karl Spielbüchler and Prof. Dr. Karl Korinek. In 1997 he practised European competition law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. From 2004 to 2010 he was Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. He has more than 24 years of professional experience in Vienna and Brussels. Bernt Elsner is one of the leading Austrian experts in the dynamic and constantly changing field of public procurement law. His numerous publications and lectures have had a significant impact on Austrian public procurement law. He advises public entities on the structuring of complex tenders, advises bidders on their participation in award procedures, especially public-private partnerships (PPP projects), and frequently represents them in public procurement disputes. He has extensive experience in tender-relevant compliance issues.
Egon Engin-Deniz
Egon Engin-Deniz
Dr Egon Engin-Deniz is a partner in the firm and has been with CMS since 1991. Egon Engin-Deniz is an attorney-at-law for intellectual property law and a leading expert in the fields of Life Sciences & Healthcare and TMC - Technology, Media & Telecommunications. He heads the Intellectual Property and Media Department of CMS in Vienna. He has extensive expertise in contentious and non-contentious trademark, domain and patent law, copyright including access control law, distribution and unfair competition law. His team specialises in the prosecution of product piracy and the examination of parallel imports. Egon Engin-Deniz is a recognised expert in cross-border litigation and licensing. Equally important as his intensive involvement in litigation activities are the strategic "cradle to grave" advisory services he provides to companies, starting from the choice of names and portfolio management to trademark, patents and licensing strategies. Up until 2008, Egon Engin-Deniz was state commissioner for the Austrian collecting societies OeSTIG und LSG.
Ignacio Errazquin
Ignacio Errazquin
Ignacio is head of  Technology, Media & Communication (TMC) Group at CMS Carey & Allende. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, telecom, project finance with an emphasis on mining and non-conventional renewable energy projects, private equity and the structuring of joint ventures for businesses in different sectors. He also advises on antitrust matters in connection with merger control procedures. During the first half of 2018, Ignacio worked on the Corporate/M&A team at CMS Francis Lefebvre in Paris, France, where he participated in multiple cross-border transactions within Europe and with the US. He also advises French companies on their establishment as well as their business development in Chile.  
Gregor Famira
Gregor Famira
Gregor Famira is partner at CMS Vienna and an expert for the hotel and leisure industry and  in corporate law/M&A. He is founder and head of the CMS offices in Zagreb (2003) and Ljubljana (2008) and also coordinates the firm’s activities in the area of Real Estate in CEE and has been active in CEE for 20 years. During this time, he has advised on numerous corporate and real estate transactions in the region Gregor Famira focusses on the asset classes ‘hotels’ and ‘trade’; he advises owners, financiers and operators/traders not only on transactions, but also on rental and lease agreements as well as franchise and hotel management contracts and real estate developments. Gregor Famira’s second pillar (since 2005) is advising mainly Austrian start-up companies.
Julio Frías
Julio Frías
Julio is a partner and leads the Labor & Pensions team at CMS Carey &  Allende. He has more than ten years of experience, in which he has focused on labor litigation, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution. In addition, Julio has advised national and international companies in Chile on o including prevention of damages and strategic labour law advice to both local and international clients on a daily basis. He provides comprehensive advice to companies in various economic sectors, providing support in the hiring of personnel, the definition of special labor conditions, the structuring of compensation packages, occupational safety, the management of terminations and representation in labor litigation. The team he leads collaborates closely with the corporate and tax areas, actively participating in due diligence processes related to mergers and acquisitions.
Pabla Gainza
Pabla Gainza
Pabla is partner and leads the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She has been active in the sector for over two decades, she is a go-to practitioner for urban planning and zoning matters, development of pipelines, electric lines and other easement matters, as well as expropriation processes and regularisation of industrial plants and other real estate assets. Pabla was a part of the team that developed a Methodology for Integrated Projects for Santiago’s Inner Circle, for the World Bank’s PNUD program. She has also provided urban legal consulting for the Metropolitan SEREMI MINVU (Regional Secretariat for Urban Development Ministry of Chile), for the modification and creation of the Santiago Metropolitan Regulation Plan, on matters related to Patrimony and Public Areas. She is highly involved in the practice of contentious administrative cases, before the various State public entities, such as the Comptroller General of the Republic, SEREMI MINVU, Health Ministry Regional Secretariat’s Office, Urban Development Division, Public Works Directorate, etc. Key clients: Antofagasta Minerals (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB)), Banco Santander Chile S.A., Aki KB Minibogedas SpA., Banchile Inversiones S.A., Nevasa S.A. Administradora de Fondos, Unilever Chile S.A., Estée Lauder S.A.  (Cela Cosméticos S.A.)
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp is an attorney-at-law who has specialized for many years in the fields of capital markets law and financial market regulation. He regularly advises on preparing issuance programmes as well as  bonds issuanceand regulatory capital instruments. He also focuses on the structuring and support of securitization transactions, new business models proposed by financial service providers, as well as giving comprehensive regulatory advice to banks, insurance companies and securities firms. Walter Gapp is repeatedly mentioned as a leading lawyer in the field of capital markets law and banking regulation, he has been described as "highly regarded" (IFLR 1000) and placed on the list of "best lawyers (banking and finance law)" (Handelsblatt 2019).
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz is a partner at CMS in Vienna and head of the specialist Employment and Pension Law Department. Bernhard Hainz is one of the leading specialists in Austria and for more than 30 years has primarily advised companies in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including the negotiation of collective agreements, works agreements, social plans, disputes with works councils and employees, service agreements and dissolution agreements as well as pension and pension fund matters. As a result of his previous position as an assistant at the Vienna University Institute for Employment Law and Social Law, Bernhard Hainz and his team combine high-level academic qualifications with many years of practical legal experience. In addition, Bernhard Hainz has expertise in the area of art law and in this connection he represents artists and art institutions both nationally and internationally.
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl is an attorney-at-law for infrastructure projects & public private partnerships and a leading expert in public procurement law as well as real estate & construction. He is a specialist for national and international construction projects, infrastructure and public private partnerships as well as energy projects. He has particular expertise in national and international construction contract law, public procurement law including concessions, infrastructure-oriented dispute resolution including litigation and arbitration, real estate and energy law. Thomas Hamerl has experience in infrastructure projects for roads, railways, airports, hospitals, schools, waste collection and disposal, site remediation, power plants (PV, wind, biomass, water). He has been working as a legal consultant for around 20 years and joined CMS in 2009. He brings to the consulting practice his experience as in-house counsel of an international construction group, where he was head of the legal department in Vienna and head of the group-wide “Legal Practice Group PPP”. Prior to that, he worked for renowned Viennese law firms in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the European Commission in Brussels.
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik is a partner in the transactions team of CMS Vienna, focusing on finance transactions, restructurings and corporate transactions. As head of the transactional finance team of CMS Vienna, he supports clients in high-profile projects in Austria and CEE. He continuously acts on behalf of leading European financial institutions as well as large corporations. Günther Hanslik has been teaching at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for many years.  
Peter Huber
Peter Huber is head of the International Corporate Transactions team of CMS Austria. He looks back on more than 25 years of professional experience in corporate transactions, including more than four years with major investment banks. His main areas of practice are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Huber advises a range of major Austrian corporations and major shareholders as well as groups of shareholders on corporate transactions, restructurings, shareholders’ agreements and governance structures, including advice on legal issues resulting from shareholder activism. He also advises major private equity houses on investments and exits.
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek is an attorney-at-law for real estate law. He advises national and international clients on a wide range of topics from financing agreements to the acquisition, sale and development of commercial real estate and real estate portfolios. For many years he has advised numerous Austrian and international clients—including insurance companies and funds—on real estate transactions (including mortgage-backed syndicated loan agreements), privatisations and corporate restructurings. In addition, he regularly supports international (luxury) brands in their market entry and the establishment of flagship stores in Austria. Johannes Hysek has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for many years and is a lecturer at the FH for Real Estate Management. Johannes Hysek has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek is managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and an expert in technology, data protection and business law. He has extensive experience in handling complex legal cases in the areas of IT law, data protection and commercial law. Among other things, he advises clients on the implementation of compliance regulations in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). His clients include technology, software and industrial companies, banks and healthcare companies. Johannes Juranek also represents clients before courts and arbitration tribunals in these areas.  
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner is a partner at CMS and leads our dispute resolution group as well as the insurance industry team. In addition, she is a member of our teams for corporate and commercial law. She has many years of experience with highly complex litigation and arbitration cases for clients from various industries, with a special focus on the energy, media, banking, financial services and insurance industries. She represents Austrian and international clients at courts and at arbitration courts with a focus on cases involving damages, contracts, product liability, corporate and competition law. During and after law school in Vienna and Paris, she held assistant positions with the University of Vienna Law School (e.g. at the Department of Civil Law). She has over 20 years of experience as a lawyer in Vienna and Linz. In addition, she is a sought-after speaker at executive seminars as well as author and co-author of various expert articles.
Gonçalo Madeira
Gonçalo Madeira is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency & Restructuring teams. With over 20 years of experience, he represents a roster of clients, in disputes arising from commercial relations between companies, purchase and sale agreements, supply and service agreements, works contracts, agency agreements, or commercial concession agreements in general, among others. He also has experience in disputes relating to non-contractual civil liability. Gonçalo advises national and international clients both in the pre-litigation stage and in disputes before judicial or arbitral courts. Gonçalo is recognised for Litigation and Insolvency and Reorganization Law by Best Lawyers since 2019. He is also acknowledged as Excellent for Restructuring & Insolvency by Leaders League 2024 Joined CMS Rui Portugal in 2022.
Tiziana Masone
Tiziana Masone
Tiziana Masone began her collaboration with the firm in 2013 as Associate. She is a member of the Administrative and Public Law Department. Her experience focuses on the field of administrative law, with particular reference to aspects of legal advice, drafting of court documents and legal opinions, legal research, assistance to public and private companies in both judicial and extrajudicial matters (disputes before administrative courts). Tiziana assists companies operating nationally and internationally, in particular in the areas of public procurement and expropriation, public concessions and utilities.
Indir Osmić
Indir Osmić is an attorney at law in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz admitted to the FBiH Bar. He joined CMS Sarajevo in 2011. His main fields of expertise are Corporate law, Finance law, Tax Law, Energy Law and Compliance.  Indir’s work also includes corporate finance work, such as coordinating M&A deals with focus on finance structuring and regulatory. He has expanded his experience by working as a country team leader in complex regional cross-border transaction projects.    Besides mentioned, Mr. Osmic possesses experience in commercial, administrative and tax litigation cases where he advised and represented a number of international clients.
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter is an attorney-at law for Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMC), FinTech & Digital Assets, IT Law, Data Protection, Digitalisation & Start-ups. Klaus Pateter advises and represents his clients in the areas of regulatory law, digital assets, IT law, licensing of technology and software (domestic & international), data protection law and medical technology. He also specialises in advising tech start-ups in all phases of growth and advises on setting up corporate structures as well as on founding and financing, in particular in the area of venture capital. He heads the Start-up Advisory Group of CMS Austria and coordinates equIP, CMS' renowned legal accelerator for tech start-ups.
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer is an attorney-at-law for banking and finance law, specialising in financing, asset-backed financing (securitisation), restructuring/insolvency law, derivative transactions and (banking) supervisory law. As an expert in banking and finance, he has advised on both large (real estate) financing and large (cross-border) restructuring transactions. Another focus of his previous work is the area of bank restructuring and settlement. Most recently, he focused on the area of New Technologies such as SmartContracts and Blockchain where he is active as both legal advisor of FinTech companies as well as lecturer. Stefan Paulmayer has more than eleven years of professional experience.
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić is a partner at CMS in Vienna and has been the managing partner of the Serbian CMS office in Belgrade since its establishment in 2000. As a leading expert in the fields of corporate/M&A, competition law & EU, corporate law, commercial law as well as finance and project financing, he has more than 20 years of experience in extensive commercial and M&A transactions and development projects throughout the CEE region. He has an in-depth understanding of all corporate and financial issues faced by companies operating in transitional markets. He is also an experienced advisor to regulators in these markets. Radivoje Petrikić is one of Serbia's leading M&A lawyers, leading a team that has advised on many landmark corporate and commercial law cases, as well as privatisations, in a variety of industries over the past 20 years. He has been appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as senior legal advisor on the revision of Serbian corporate law and PPP legislation
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna. He is a leading expert for corporate law/M&A as well as private equity and insolvency & restructuring. Alexander Rakosi advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions in the areas of M&A, private equity and restructuring in both domestic and international projects. After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LLM), Alexander Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. Alexander Rakosi is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Group at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. For many years, Johannes has been one of the leading corporate lawyers in Austria and a highly esteemed litigator. As professor at the University of Vienna, Law school he has an outstanding academic reputation. He is author of various commentaries, books and articles with a particular focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and partnership law, including the leading commentary on the Austrian Act on limited liability companies. He is co-editor of “ecolex”, the leading Austrian commercial law journal. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Enrique Remón
Enrique Remón
Enrique Remón, Partner of the Dispute Resolution & Arbitration department of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, is a Public Prosecutor on professional leave of absence and is an expert in criminal law. He is recognized by Legal 500 as a Leading Partner in the White Collar Crime category. His renowned career in the field of white-collar crime has developed within the Public Prosecutor's Office, notably as Public Prosecutor of the province of Madrid and dean of the White-Collar Crime Section of the Province of Madrid Public Prosecutor's Office. In this role, he was responsible, inter alia, for the supervision and carrying out of investigations into and prosecutions of white-collar crimes, and of managing the Judicial Police assigned to this section.
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen is CEE partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on corporate, M&A, commercial, banking and employment matters as well as experience in dispute resolution. Nedzida is experienced in setting up corporate and business structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina and regularly advises clients on the regulatory and commercial environment under Bosnian law. She also represents clients in litigation. Nedzida has an LLM from a US university and has been continuously selected as a leading lawyer in BiH. Nedžida Salihović-Whalen was a member of several international legal working groups and took part in drafting laws regarding legal and economic reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is heavily involved in major banking and finance deals, both transactional and project-based work. Her involvement ranges from supervising the deals, to advising clients on particular aspects of the transactions. Nedzida is an examiner of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Bar Exam Commission for commercial law for the last ten years.
Eva Selvaggiuolo
Eva Selvaggiuolo
Eva Selvaggiuolo joined CMS Rome office in 2012, focusing on banking and finance law, commercial and corporate law. Eva assists leading national and international financial institutions such as banks, payment institutions, IMELs, financial intermediaries, on regulatory aspects relating to both domestic and cross-border operations as well as on  extraordinary business reorganization transactions, expansion and start-up operations, as well as on the set-up of the financial contractual documentation (leasing, acquiring, current account and financing agreements, anti-money laundering forms, etc.). Eva assists various Italian and foreign companies operating in the Fintech sector. Eva regularly advises leading commercial companies active in different sectors and in both domestic and foreign markets on financing, corporate finance, project finance, intra-group financial, commercial, private equity and M&A transactions as well as on anti-money laundering aspects. Eva has also gained significant experience in the energy sector, assisting leading foreign players operating on the Italian market in corporate financing, restructuring and reorganization transactions, and managing every corporate and financial aspect relating to the management of day-to-day business.
Peter Šimo
Peter Šimo
Peter Šimo is Of Counsel at CMS in Bratislava, Head of German Desk in Bratislava and a member of the international transaction team. He has a track record of more than fifteen years acting as an advisor to international and local clients in CEE, in particular in the area of Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance and Property transactions Peter Šimo has advised on several of the most significant corporate and financing transactions in Slovakia and the CEE region, including syndicated financings, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border mergers, private equity deals, corporate restructurings as well as day-to-day banking and corporate matters, regulatory issues and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders' agreements). He advises clients from various sectors including financial institutions, insurances, real estate & construction, automotive, retail and manufacturing business. Peter Šimo also regularly performs overall project management in due diligence exercises.
Peter Šimo 
Peter Šimo 
Peter Šimo is Of Counsel at CMS in Bratislava, Head of German Desk in Bratislava and a member of the international transaction team. He has a track record of more than fifteen years acting as an advisor to international and local clients in CEE, in particular in the area of Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance and Property transactions Peter Šimo has advised on several of the most significant corporate and financing transactions in Slovakia and the CEE region, including syndicated financings, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border mergers, private equity deals, corporate restructurings as well as day-to-day banking and corporate matters, regulatory issues and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders' agreements). He advises clients from various sectors including financial institutions, insurances, real estate & construction, automotive, retail and manufacturing business. Peter Šimo also regularly performs overall project management in due diligence exercises.
Matías Somarriva
Matías Somarriva
Matías is Head of the Intellectual Property Group at CMS Carey & Allende. He has over 20-years of experience in cases relating to trademarks, patents, industrial designs, litigation, copyright, and unfair competition, among other matters. He is the React partner In Chile. Endorsed in Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and WTR 1000. Ranked among Latin America’s best anti-counterfeiting experts by World Trade Review, 2018. He was recognised with the Membership Champion Award  by International Trademark Association (INTA) for helping to grow membership, increase awareness, and promote member benefits, demonstrating his passion for trademark and related intellectual property law.
Gabriela Staber
Gabriela Staber
Gabriela Staber is an attorney-at-law specialising in intellectual property and unfair competition law with a sector focus on life sciences & healthcare and TMC (technology, media & telecommunications).  She advises on issues related to the marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices as well as the protection of intellectual property. Her expertise includes advertising and product labelling, compliance, restructuring of distribution systems, reimbursement / market access, clinical trials, licensing, counterfeits and parallel imports and dispute resolution.
Stuart Tait
Stuart Tait
Stuart specialises in acting for debtors and for lending syndicates, banks, funds and other financial institutions in consensual and non-consensual restructurings, for investors in distressed acquisitions and for insolvency practitioners during pre-packaged and unplanned insolvency processes. He works predominantly in the North West and London. He advises on realising and maximising value in distressed situations, including consensual workouts and restructurings, whether these are delivered through distressed sales, enforcement, insolvency processes or distressed debt trading.
Pamela Turok
Pamela Turok
Pamela is a senior associate based in our Glasgow office. She advises on all aspects of environmental regulatory compliance and enforcement including waste management, pollution prevention and control issues, and contaminated land. Pamela also regularly provides transactional support to our corporate and property departments. Pamela spent a year on secondment to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency where she advised on all aspects of environmental regulation and enforcement as well as being heavily involved with the training of the new environmental specialist procurator fiscals.
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón is co-head of the Corporate/M&A practice area and leads the Technology, Media & Communications team. His practice focuses on corporate; capital markets & finance; M&A and private equity transactions, both in Chile as well as in other Latin American countries, where he has played a major part in the international expansion of various Chilean companies. In capital markets, Ramón advises issuing companies and investment banks in the issuance, registration, and placement of securities, assisting companies that enter into this market on all essential matters, ensuring transparency and timeliness in the information to the market, and continual improvement of corporate governance, securing future access to the market as a source of financing.  In this regard, Ramón has lead various public tender offers (OPA), including non-solicited takeover bids. Ramón is a well-known expert in sectors related to telecommunications and information technologies. Key clients:  Sonda S.A, Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), Bupa S.A., Salfacorp S.A., Karün, American Tower Corp., Besalco S.A., KKR Investment Fund.
Enrique Vergara
Enrique Vergara
Enrique is partner and head of Banking & Finance Group at CMS Carey & Allende since 2015. His practice focuses on financing, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate law. He has advised local and foreign clients on banking and financial matters, especially in syndicated loans, project finance for the infrastructure and energy sector, debt restructurings, credit transfers, and in the issuance and placement of corporate bonds that are publicly listed and offered on the market.
Jens Winter
Jens Winter
Jens Winter is an attorney-at-law in the field of employment law. He is a partner at CMS and advises national and international companies mainly on questions of individual and collective employment law, data protection law in the area of employment law and company pension law. He is the author of numerous publications and is frequently asked to lecture on this area of expertise. He has many years of experience representing national and international clients before courts and public authorities. In addition, he has extensive practical experience in the implementation and realisation of company restructuring and the spin-off or merger of businesses or individual business units in the course of domestic or international transfers of operations. He has also been called on for his employment law expertise in the evaluation and realisation of several domestic and cross-border transactions.
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf is a partner at CMS and heads the employment and pensions team together with Bernhard Hainz. For over 15 years he has been particularly advising companies with respect to judicial and extra-judicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, negotiating works agreements and redundancy plans as well as settling disputes with works councils and employees.  An additional focal point of his work revolves around providing support to former state-owned companies, as well as dealing with various labour law-related issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on legal issues concerning the international secondment of staff as well as all labour law topics relevant in the field of compliance. In addition, Christoph Wolf has served and continues to serve as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Danube University Krems as well as the Medical University of Vienna.
Álvaro Yáñez
Álvaro Yáñez
Álvaro is a Partner of the firm and co-leads the Energy & Climate Change team. He is a Doctor of Law from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Álvaro began his career as a civil judge in Cúcuta (Colombia) and later moved to Bogotá where he opened his independent law firm. He has advised various national and foreign companies, including Financial Institutions, Oil & Gas Companies, Industrial and Commercial Corporations. On multiple occasions he has been appointed to represent the interests in dispute as legal representative of various companies in the energy sector. In addition, he is a former member of the board of directors of the Franco Colombian Bank, the Colombian-French Chamber of Commerce, and was a founding member of the Colombian-Chilean Chamber of Commerce. He has also been a professor of commercial law at the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Santo Tomás.
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is an attorney with experience in legal work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, admitted to the Bar after passing the Bar exam. She joined CMS Sarajevo in 2010. Her fields of expertise range from Banking and Finance and Corporate, litigation with significant experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas. Besides mentioned, Ms Zubovic-Devedzic possesses experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas and for the past seven years she advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues.Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is a partner in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She specialises in banking and finance and the corporate field and has significant experience in litigation and legal advising in a number of other practice areas. For the past nine years, she has advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues. She is experienced in banking and finance law, having been involved in some of the most innovative and ground-breaking banking and finance projects conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with particular emphasis on the local regulatory framework and structuring of the transactions. In particular, she has advised clients on the regulatory aspects of the different types of financial operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, coupled with transactional advice regarding financing projects including loans, capital markets, and syndicated structures, NPL restructuring and corporate aspects relevant for the finance industry.