Rodrigo Ochagavía

Practice Areas

Reorganization and Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Business Organizations.

Experience

Rodrigo Ochagavía has extensive experience in Corporate Finance, including Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions and Energy.

He has represented a broad range of clients, including lenders, borrowers, purchasers, sellers, governments, investors, financial advisers, issuers, credit enhancers and underwriters. In the energy sector he has represented generators and transmission and distribution companies.

He was one of the two most voted Chilean lawyers in a survey conducted by Latin Lawyer in 2003 choosing the twenty best Chilean lawyers under forty years of age. He also has been chosen as one of the leading Chilean practitioners in Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Projects, Energy and Mergers and Acquisitions by Chambers and Partners; in Banking, Project Finance, Capital Markets, M&A and Governance and Energy by Who’s Who Legal; and in Banking, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions and Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000.

Is a professor of Business Law at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and was a professor of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Master in Business Law at Universidad de los Andes between 2007 and 2017. Between 2019 and 2023 he was the Director of the Department of Economic, Business and Tax Law of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

He is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and the International Bar Association. In 2023 he was elected as a member of the Board of the Chilean Bar Association.

He joined Claro & Cia. in 1997 and became partner in 2001. He was previously with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, 1996-1997 and Carey & Cia. in Chile, 1990 -1995.

Education

Languages Spoken

Spanish and English.