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
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
- 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.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Carey presents the experiences of its professionals from other practice areas for the same problem, which gives a global perspective to each of the solution alternatives. This leads to a high level of sophistication in the proposed solutions, which are not necessarily complex to implement."
"Carey always provides high-quality services with quick responses. The lawyers have excellent ability and availability."
"Carey presents the experiences of its professionals from other practice areas for the same problem, which gives a global perspective to each of the solution alternatives. This leads to a high level of sophistication in the proposed solutions, which are not necessarily complex to implement."
"Carey always provides high-quality services with quick responses. The lawyers have excellent ability and availability."
Notable Practitioners
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."
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."
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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