Baker McKenzie Chile's ‘corporate and M&A practice is distinguished by its comprehensive and personalised approach to each transaction’. The practice has over 40 years’ experience in advising Chilean and international clients on regional and multinational cross-border deals, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions. The team’s expertise encompasses post-acquisition integration services, due diligence, general corporate law and corporate reorganisations, as well as commercial contracts, corporate governance and corporate secretarial work. The group additionally covers private equity-related deal structuring and regulatory advice. Jaime Munro has over 25 years’ experience in private and public M&A and venture capital and private equity transactions, along with real estate investments and infrastructure projects; corporate and partnership law specialist Fernando Castro advises on M&A, joint ventures, contractual law, and foreign investments; Diego Ferrada’s workload includes stock and asset deals and project finance transactions; and Sebastián Vivanco assists with M&A mandates, in addition to his banking and finance practice. The group further includes Cristobal Larrain, an adviser on corporate matters, tender offers, auction processes, joint ventures, private equity investments and corporate reorganisations; and of counsel transactional expert, Leon Larrain.  Promoted to partner in June 2024, corporate and company-law practitioner Martin Müller is experienced in M&A, joint ventures, contracts, foreign investments, and corporate reorganisations.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘High level of expertise with lots of commitment from all the team involved.’

  • ‘Connection and understanding of the issues, so as to offer the best possibilities in terms of results and efficiency.’

  • ‘Precision and professionalism.’

  • ‘Comprehensive and pro-business proposals, and innovative structuring.’

  • ‘The corporate and M&A practice is distinguished by its comprehensive and personalised approach to each transaction.’

  • ‘The team has extensive experience in M&A, corporate restructuring, and financing.’

Key clients

  • Ohio National Seguros de Vida
  • Aon Risk Services (Chile) Corredores de Seguros
  • Arval
  • Vida Security
  • Grupo Security
  • Thales Group
  • New Mountain Capital
  • Accenture
  • Swiss Steel France
  • Credicorp Capital
  • Tradition
  • Hitachi

Work highlights

Advised Ohio National Seguros de Vida on the acquisition of Zurich Chile Seguros de Vida’s annuity portfolio and its associated $2.6bn investment portfolio.
Advised Vela Software, a subsidiary of Constellation Software, on an internal reorganisation in Latin America, which involved merging three Chilean-domiciled subsidiaries. .
Advising Baxter International on the spin-off of its renal and acute therapy units.

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Practice head

Jaime Munro; Fernando Castro; Diego Ferrada; Sebastián Vivanco