DEPARTMENT PROFILE

Prieto Abogados

Capital Markets

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Band 3

Chile

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What the team is known for

Prieto Abogados boasts an experienced capital markets team with a recognised practice in debt placements, company flotations and fund formation, with a particular focus on advising local corporate issuers. Well placed to represent private equity funds, assisting them with the development of investment vehicle structures.

Strengths

Clients laud the firm's work, with one noting: "The service is top-notch; they are highly knowledgeable about business issues and are always available for clients."

Work highlights

Prieto Abogados advised Plaza on three bond placements worth a total of approximately USD320 million.

Notable practitioners

Isabel Margarita Wolleter comes highly recommended by interviewees, who note her relevant activity in this field. A client singles her out for praise, noting her work on registering issuers with the CMF, adding that "she has the soft skills and the personality that you need in order to close deals."

Department co-head Patricio Prieto Larrain is known for his experience in the Chilean capital markets arena. A client describes him as "highly skilled."

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Overview

Prieto’s team has a recognized leadership on capital markets services regularly counseling its clients in their registration processes before local regulators as well as in the procedures needed for the public offering of shares, bonds and similar instruments both in Chile and abroad.

Among its practice Prieto’s team is a leader in advising Public Investment Funds and private equity funds. On the domestic market, it has participated in innumerable bond issuing transactions, intervening in more than one third of the corporate bond placements performed in Chile in the last few years.

Prieto’s lawyers, additionally of advising its clients in local processes and reporting requirements, have a broad experience in cross-border transactions including offerings of both shares and corporate bonds issued under Regulation 144A and Regulation S of the US Securities Act.

Contact: Patricio Prieto L and Isabel M. Wolleter.