Cuatrecasas

Cuatrecasas' ‘level of sophistication and total focus on client needs make it a great practice’. The 18-member team covers a broad range of of transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, distressed deals, commercial agreements, and asset and business transfers. The department also assists with licensing, corporate restructuring (including due diligence procedures), and contract drafting and negotiation. It additionally has a notable focus on private equity and venture capital investments The corporate and M&A practice is led by Roberto Guerrero V, who also coordinates the Santiago office’s capital markets and banking and finance practices; while Michel Diban is an ’excellent, sophisticated lawyer with extensive knowledge of the market and M&A trends’. The group further includes domestic and international M&A expert Macarena Ravinet, whose expertise encompasses the telecoms, food and retail sectors, as well as corporate restructuring, corporate governance and private equity; venture capital and energy M&A specialist, Josefina Yávar; and Tomás Kubick, who assists with joint ventures, associations, shareholder agreements, and asset purchases and sales. In the firm’s associate group, Pilar Illanes advises national and international clients on M&A transactions, as well as corporate governance plans. In mid-2025, Alfonso Ugarte, an experienced adviser on corporate and M&A mandates in the infrastructure sector, returned to the Santiago from the firm’s New York office; while former principal associate Franco Dalmazzo departed the firm in August 2024.