Roberto Guerrero V
Latin America Guide 2024
Band 2 : Corporate/M&A
About
Provided by Roberto Guerrero V
Practice Areas
Specialist in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and banking and finance, having participated in many landmark transactions in the Chilean market. He has participated in designing, negotiating and implementing complex deals in many sectors of the economy, such as commerce, energy, finance, fishing, food and beverages, industry, infrastructure, mining, services, and telecommunications.
Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked as a foreign associate at US law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
Career
He is a professor of the School of Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (“the PUC”), where he has lectured on commercial law since 1995. From 2010 to 2015, he served as the dean of the PUC School of Law, after having served as vice dean, and previously as director of studies of the Master in Business Law.
Professional Memberships
He is a member of the Chilean National Television Council and a former member of the country’s Council for Transparency. Both are autonomous and constitutional bodies that safeguard aspects of public interest, including transparency in public service, access to information and the correct functioning of television services.
Personal
Master in Comparative Jurisprudence, New York University, 1994.
Bachelor of Laws, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 1994.
Articles, highlights and press releases
12 items provided by Cuatrecasas
CGE. Local bond offering and placement in the financial market
Guerrero Olivos represented CGE in a USD350 million bond offering and registration with local regulator and in the placement of one of the lines in the financial market.
Banco Santander-Chile. Special purpose corporation
Guerrero Olivos represented Banco Santander-Chile in the structuring, incorporation and registration with the banking regulator, of a special corporation, (bank subsidiary) which will engage in the business of operating cards.
Caja Los Andes. Local bond offering
Guerrero Olivos represented the leading social security services provider in Chile, in the registration of a local bond offering of USD336 million. BICE bank acted representing the bondholders.
Remote participation and voting at shareholders meetings
Guerrero Olivos represented 12 listed companies in the implementation of remote shareholders meeting including technological resources for the participation of the shareholders and remote voting mechanisms.
Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A. Capital increase
Guerrero Olivos represented Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A. (CSH), affiliate of open corporation CAP S.A., leading iron ore and pellets producer on the Pacific Coast, largest steel producer and the most important steel processing company in the country, in a USD43,1 million capital increase.
Kenbourne Investment. Bond issuance 144A/Reg. S
Guerrero Olivos represented TMT company WOM as borrower and bond issuer, Kenbourne Invest. in a USD450 million loan under a 144A/Reg S. international bond scheme
Guerrero Olivos represented TMT company WOM as borrower, in a syndicated loan.
Guerrero Olivos assisted represented CGE, Naturgy in the sale of its affiliate, Transemel, to Portuguese company REN, which acquired Transemel through its local affiliates Apolo Chile and Aerio Chile, represented by Prieto Abogados.
Incorporation of Caja Los Andes' special corporation for issuing prepaid debit cards
Guerrero Olivos assisted Caja de Compensación de Asignación Familiar de Los Andes, one of the most relevant regulated private social security entities in the incorporation and registration of a special corporation with exclusive purpose, which will issue prepaid debit cards.
Sale of BC Bearing Corporate Services Ltd. (“BCB”)
Guerrero Olivos assisted one of the largest industrial distributor in the world BCB, in the sale of its participation in its Chilean, Peruvian and Colombian affiliates to Küpfer Hermanos S.A.
Caja Los Andes. Local debt offering
Guerrero Olivos assisted Caja Los Andes, leading social security services provider in Chile, representing more than 60% of the Chilean market. This time we were in charge of all legal aspects in connection with a local bond offering equivalent to US$91.3 million.
Gas Natural Fenosa Group. Corporate restructuring process
Guerrero Olivos assisted Compañía General de Electricidad (“CGE”) in the first stage of Gas Natural Fenosa Group’s corporate restructuring process worth US$760 million.
CGE. Local bond offering and placement in the financial market
Guerrero Olivos represented CGE in a USD350 million bond offering and registration with local regulator and in the placement of one of the lines in the financial market.
Banco Santander-Chile. Special purpose corporation
Guerrero Olivos represented Banco Santander-Chile in the structuring, incorporation and registration with the banking regulator, of a special corporation, (bank subsidiary) which will engage in the business of operating cards.
Caja Los Andes. Local bond offering
Guerrero Olivos represented the leading social security services provider in Chile, in the registration of a local bond offering of USD336 million. BICE bank acted representing the bondholders.
Remote participation and voting at shareholders meetings
Guerrero Olivos represented 12 listed companies in the implementation of remote shareholders meeting including technological resources for the participation of the shareholders and remote voting mechanisms.
Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A. Capital increase
Guerrero Olivos represented Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A. (CSH), affiliate of open corporation CAP S.A., leading iron ore and pellets producer on the Pacific Coast, largest steel producer and the most important steel processing company in the country, in a USD43,1 million capital increase.
Kenbourne Investment. Bond issuance 144A/Reg. S
Guerrero Olivos represented TMT company WOM as borrower and bond issuer, Kenbourne Invest. in a USD450 million loan under a 144A/Reg S. international bond scheme
Guerrero Olivos represented TMT company WOM as borrower, in a syndicated loan.
Guerrero Olivos assisted represented CGE, Naturgy in the sale of its affiliate, Transemel, to Portuguese company REN, which acquired Transemel through its local affiliates Apolo Chile and Aerio Chile, represented by Prieto Abogados.
Incorporation of Caja Los Andes' special corporation for issuing prepaid debit cards
Guerrero Olivos assisted Caja de Compensación de Asignación Familiar de Los Andes, one of the most relevant regulated private social security entities in the incorporation and registration of a special corporation with exclusive purpose, which will issue prepaid debit cards.
Sale of BC Bearing Corporate Services Ltd. (“BCB”)
Guerrero Olivos assisted one of the largest industrial distributor in the world BCB, in the sale of its participation in its Chilean, Peruvian and Colombian affiliates to Küpfer Hermanos S.A.
Caja Los Andes. Local debt offering
Guerrero Olivos assisted Caja Los Andes, leading social security services provider in Chile, representing more than 60% of the Chilean market. This time we were in charge of all legal aspects in connection with a local bond offering equivalent to US$91.3 million.
Gas Natural Fenosa Group. Corporate restructuring process
Guerrero Olivos assisted Compañía General de Electricidad (“CGE”) in the first stage of Gas Natural Fenosa Group’s corporate restructuring process worth US$760 million.
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