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Latin America Guide 2023
Chile Banking & Finance
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3 Ranked Lawyers

About

Provided by Carey

Carey has extensive experience advising creditors, investors and borrowers in all types of banking and financial transactions, as well as in regulatory matters.

The firm has represented domestic and foreign clients in bilateral or syndicated loans, secure and unsecured; liability management; public and private offers and placements of capital and debt, both local and international; securitizations; project financing; structured products and operations with derivatives; and regulatory matters before the regulator as well; among many others.

Carey has also participated in a series of initiatives to update laws and regulations in Chile, having advised the Central Bank of Chile, the Financial Market Commission, the ministries of Finance and Economy and the Chilean Banking Association.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Chile
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Band 1
What the team is known for

Carey is a front-running full-service firm that is held in high esteem for its banking and finance practice, which offers extensive experience advising on secured and unsecured, term and revolving, bilateral and syndicated loans to finance projects in Chile. The law firm also earns market endorsement for its role in liability management and corporate debt refinancing, as well as in regulatory banking mandates. The team at Carey is well equipped to offer counsel to an impressive client portfolio, including multinational development and investment banks, as well as local and international borrowers from the mining and real estate sectors.

Work Highlights

Provided by Carey
  • Carey's banking and finance lawyers advised Qatar Airways on the negotiation and execution of a DIP financing for the Chilean aviation company LATAM Airlines.

Notable Practitioners

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Diego Peralta
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Diego Peralta
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Senior Statespeople

Senior statesperson Diego Peralta has longstanding experience in banking and finance mandates and remains a leading figure in the Chilean legal space. A market commentator enthuses: "Diego Peralta always delivers great-value advice, combining good judgement, legal knowledge, and business understanding."

Felipe Moro
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Felipe Moro
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Band 1

Key partner Felipe Moro is lauded by clients for his banking and finance practice in Chile, which is focused on lending transactions, project financing, structured products and derivative transactions. One market commentator enthuses: "He is on top of all your legal and business needs as a client. He is very experienced and is very effective in the negotiations of complex contracts." Another respondent adds: "The experience and knowledge of Felipe Moro in the financing of energy projects allows him to provide sound and functional legal support."

Fernando Noriega
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Fernando Noriega
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Up and Coming

Up-and-coming partner Fernando Noriega focuses his Chilean practice on banking law, corporate lending transactions and project financing. He is praised by market observers, one of whom remarks: "Fernando Noriega has very strong commercial awareness and provides practical solutions." Another market commentator enthuses: "He is an innovative counsel with clear understanding of the financing trends in the market."

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Carey

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Diego Peralta
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Diego Peralta
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Senior Statespeople
Felipe Moro
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Felipe Moro
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Band 1
Fernando Noriega
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Fernando Noriega
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Up and Coming