Mr Marco Salgado > DLA Piper Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

DLA Piper Chile
El Golf 150
10th Floor
Las Condes
Chile

Work Department

Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance

Position

Partner

Career

Marco Salgado has extensive experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters. He acts for corporate investors and companies across various sectors, including consumer goods, infrastructure, and energy. He is the LatAm co-lead of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice and serves as head of the media, sport and entertainment practice in Chile.

Marco assists international companies setting up their activities in the country and on their corporate matters. He has experience advising state-owned, public and private institutions on corporate governance and has also acted as lead counsel in local and international commercial arbitration and judicial cases, appearing before local and foreign courts with proceedings executed both in Chile and abroad.

Languages

Spanish; English

Memberships

Chilean Bar Association

Education

Law, School of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2003

Master of Laws (LL.M.), School of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006

Grotius Research Fellow, School of Law, The University of Michigan, 2010

Lawyer Rankings

Chile > Corporate and M&A

DLA Piper Chile‘s 18-strong group has a notable track record in high-end M&A transactions, corporate governance and venture capital, its coverage encompassing both due diligence and post-closing stages; and with hundreds of lawyers practising throughout Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, clients can additionally avail themselves of the firm’s enviable regional platform. The ‘great corporate and M&A team’ is led by Matías Zegers, a venture capital, M&A and corporate governance expert, who has ‘extraordinary experience in corporate matters’. Providing notable support, Marco Salgado advises corporate investors and companies from the consumer goods, infrastructure and energy sectors; and Jorge Timmermann -who ‘always delivers timely and quality responses’- handles matters including the structuring of M&A operations and the drafting and negotiating of stock purchase and shareholder agreements.