Garrigues Chile

Garrigues Chile’s nine-member group in Santiago is ‘fast, hard-working, and offers excellent advice’. The practice fields experts in transactional tax planning, as well as tax structuring, reorganisations, and audits and controversies involving transfer pricing and cross-border payments. It also acts in high-stakes litigation and administrative proceedings before Chile’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and tax courts. Compliance, wealth management and succession planning are other notable areas. The tax team is led by ’top-notch’ tax expert Oscar Ferrari, who specialises in corporate tax and tax litigation. Fellow partner Ignacio Campino has longstanding experience in advising Chilean and international businesses on tax and asset-related matters, while next generation figure Pilar González Cofre – a July-2026 arrival following the offices absorption of the former Barros Silva Varela Vigil – focuses on tax advisory services (including the structuring and reorganization of businesses and personal estates, the design of tax-efficient structures, assessment of tax contingencies and litigation of tax disputes. In the associate ranks, seniors Magdalena Casenave Prat and Simón Aqueveque, are both experienced tax practitioners. Former principal associate María Jesús Hidalgo Larraín left the firm in May 2026.