Energy and natural resources
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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Profile
Work Department
Reorganization and Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Business Organizations.
Energy, Financial Services and Fintech, Pension Funds, Investment Funds and Private Equity, Private Client and Wealth Management, Infrastructure and Transportation, Construction, Healthcare.
Position
Partner
Career
Rodrigo Ochagavía has extensive experience in Corporate Finance, including Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions and Energy.
He has represented a broad range of clients, including lenders, borrowers, purchasers, sellers, governments, investors, financial advisers, issuers, credit enhancers and underwriters. In the energy sector he has represented generators, transmission and distribution companies.
He was one of the two most voted Chilean lawyers in a survey conducted by Latin Lawyer in 2003 choosing the twenty best Chilean lawyers under forty years of age. He also has been chosen as one of the leading Chilean practitioners in Banking and Finance, Projects, Energy and Mergers and Acquisitions by Chambers and Partners; in Banking and Capital Markets by Who’s Who Legal; and in Banking and Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions by IFLR.
Is a professor of Business Law at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Master in Business Law at Universidad de los Andes.
He is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and the International Bar Association.
He joined Claro & Cia. in 1997 and became partner in 2001. He was previously with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, 1996-1997 and Carey & Cia. in Chile,1990-1995.
Languages
Spanish and English.
Education
LL.M., University of Chicago Law School, Fullbright, Presidente de la República and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Scholarships, 1996.
J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1993.
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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.’
‘They cover every angle and every aspect of every matter.’
‘José María Eyzaguirre F has vast knowledge and his advice is outstanding.’
Key clients
- Latam Airlines Group Santa Rita Banco del Estado de Chile Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile Grupo Marina Molibdenos y Metales Itaú Unibanco Parque Arauco Gloria Foods
Work highlights
Advised LATAM Airlines on its return to the NYSE and a $456m secondary offering of American Depositary Shares.