Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos' seven-strong team advises start-ups and emerging companies at all stages of their development. The group focuses on company start-ups, financing rounds and shareholder agreement negotiations, along with compensation plans, due diligence processes, the exploitation of different technologies and tax restructuring. The team also advises on corporate law, M&A and IP. The IP, technology, privacy, start-up and venture capital teams are led by Rodrigo Lavados, who routinely advises on software licensing, trade mark and technology transfer contracts; while the sector expertise of M&A specialist Andrea Saffie covers casinos, oil, agro-industrial, hotels, investment funds, family offices, and paper and forestry.
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Key clients

  • WeWork
  • Datamart
  • Desert Point
  • Krealo (Credicorp branch)
  • Alpha FX
  • qScire
  • Metafin Capital
  • Arauco

Work highlights

Advised Datamart on the Chilean section of its flip to Delaware, its corporate restructuring in Chile, and the negotiation of investment documents.
Advised Acroventus on the creation of a company with an innovative structure for raising capital, as well as tax structuring and corporate issues.

Lawyers

Practice head

Andrea Saffie; Rodrigo Lavados