The 16-strong capital markets department at full-service firm Claro & Cia. handles high-end deals across various sectors, including energy, infrastructure, mining, retail and financial services. With ‘in-depth knowledge of every subject and impeccable delivery’, the team covers the gamut of capital market transactions, including IPOs, secondary offerings, debt issuances, and exchange offers. Major recent highlights include acting as the primary adviser to LATAM Airlines on its headline $456m return to the New York Stock Exchange through a secondary offering of American Depositary Shares. It also acted for Chilean chemical company SQM on its $850m notes issuance. The practice is co-led by Rodrigo Ochagavía, whose recent experience includes large-value bond financings; and José Luis Ambrosy, a regular adviser on project bonds. Other names to note are: Felipe Larraín, whose experience encompasses public transactions involving tender offers, equity offerings, securities laws and corporate governance issues; capital increase and tender offer specialist Luisa Núñez; banking and capital markets regulation practitioner Juan José León; and cross-border transaction expert José María Eyzaguirre F, whose ’advice is outstanding’. Beyond the partnership, counsel Cristián Lagos advises companies and financial institutions on capital markets offerings; while in the firm’s associate pool, equity deal lawyer Nicolás Aspillaga and María Jesús Argandoña, who acts on bond issuances, complete the group.
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Work Department

Capital Markets, Project Finance, Banking and Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Organizations.
Energy, Construction, Infrastructure and Transportation, Pension Funds, Investment Funds and Private Equity.

Position

Partner

Career

Mr. Ambrosy has concentrated his practice in corporate finance, capital markets, international finance transactions (including both corporate and project finance) and mergers and acquisitions.

He has represented a broad range of clients, including lenders, borrowers, purpchaser, sellers, goverments, investors, financial advisers, issuers, credit enhancers and underwriters. He has worked in projects involving regulatory involving regulatory authorities in the Chilean securities market and public work concessions in Chile.

He joined Claro & Cia in 1998 and is a partner since 2012. Previously, he practiced law at the legal department of a financial institution in Madrid, Spain (1996-1998). During the years 2003 and 2004 worked as a foreign associate with the project finance team at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, New York Office. He became a partner in Claro & Cia. in 2012.

He is admitted to practice in Spain and Chile.

Languages
Spanish and English.
Education

LL.M., University of Notre Dame School of Law, 2004.

Master in Business Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1998-1999.

J.D., Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 1997.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘This team is exceptional, with in-depth knowledge of every subject and impeccable delivery. They are professionals, strategists, and great lawyers.’

  • ‘They have no competition in the Chilean market, and in every transaction, they are simply the best and the ones who lead the way.’

Key clients

  • Latam Airlines Group
  • Santa Rita

Work highlights

Advised LATAM Airlines on its return to the NYSE and a $456m secondary offering of American Depositary Shares.