Practice Areas
Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions
Larrain y Asociados has a specialized team in general corporate advice, involving a comprehensive and permanent work on contractual issues, corporate restructuring, formation of new companies and review and analysis of documents related to all legal aspects of customers, including Corporate Government matters.
In addition, the firm has outstanding experience in establishing foreign companies in the country, in due diligence processes, in acquisition and sale of companies, strategic alliances, structuring and execution of public offers and in partnerships and joint ventures between local and international companies. In this context, we address all financial, corporate, tax and regulatory matters involved in these operations..
Our clients in these topics belong to industrial sectors as diverse as energy, mining, real estate, construction, port, aeronautics, education, hotel, agroindustrial and stock market and investment funds, among others.
Advised to Duqueco SPA and its shareholders I Scuared Capital and Orazul Energy Nehuen Generación SpA, in the reorganization process of Duqueco. Subsequently, the sale to Energía Llaima of all shares issued by Duqueco was carried out within the framework of such reorganization. The amount of the operation amounted to US$ 210,000,000.
Counsel on the sale of GasValpo SpA to Marubeni and two infrastructure funds managed by Toesca Investment Funds Administrator. Larrain y Asociados acted on behalf of the selling shareholders: Australian company Whitehelm Capital and funds managed by it, which included the participation of pension funds of the Australian Government.
Larrain y Asociados, advised Sociedad Punta del Cobre S.A. (Pucobre), in the reverse merger under which Pucobre absorbed its parent company Pacífico V Región S.A. Inasmuch as both parties are publicly traded corporations, the transaction must comply with the regulatory requirements applicable to these types of transactions, and comply with the rules of operations between related parties in Open Companies.
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