DLA Piper Chile

DLA Piper Latin America's Team offers full-service business legal counsel to domestic and multinational companies with interests in and operations throughout the region. Our integrated approach to serving clients combines local knowledge with the resources of the DLA Piper global platform. With over 400 lawyers practicing throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, our teams frequently work with our professionals throughout the LatAm region, Iberian Peninsula, and around the globe to ensure our clients receive the depth of service they require to meet their legal and business objectives.

Our office in Chile, is a full-service business law firm with more than 50 lawyers, many trained both locally and abroad.

With extensive knowledge and experience across a range of sectors, we advise on matters related to corporate and M&A; financing; inbound and outbound capital investments; capital markets; investment funds; corporate governance; private equity and venture capital; natural resources and energy, mining, oil and gas; environmental; regulated markets; telecommunications; concessions; public procurement, regulatory and administrative law; privacy and data protection; antitrust; litigation; white collar; compliance and internal investigations; labor, employment and immigration; tax; and real estate, among other areas of law.

DLA Piper in Chile represents the firm’s pan-hemispheric approach and is a fully integrated part of its global platform.

Main areas of practice: Our team of highly experienced lawyers handles the most sophisticated corporate transactions. The work of our strong M&A team spans a range of industries, and we also bring notable experience in venture capital and corporate governance as well as knowledge of Chile’s investment environment.

Corporate: Our team of highly experienced lawyers handles the most sophisticated corporate transactions. The work of our strong M&A team spans a range of industries, and we also bring notable experience in venture capital and corporate governance as well as knowledge of Chile’s investment environment.

Services

• Corporate law
• Financing and credit
• Investment funds
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance
• Foreign investment
• Capital markets
• Private equity
• Venture capital

Energy and natural resources: In an ever-changing market for energy /oil and gas, we leverage our local knowledge of the Chilean marketplace with the vast experience of DLA Piper’s global energy sector. We are acutely familiar with projects and infrastructure opportunities in Chile, as well as the challenges of working with clients that have interests and operations here. In the increasingly active renewables market, DLA Piper Chile lawyers have taken part in some of the most significant deals in Chile.

Services

• Conventional energy
• Renewable energy
• Natural gas and LNG
• Mining
• Environment

Regulated markets: Successful business deals cannot be concluded without careful regulatory compliance – both Chilean and international. DLA Piper Chile provides comprehensive legal advice on regulatory requirements and developments and practical solutions to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives.

We have lawyers with broad experience in representing our clients before local, municipal and national authorities and agencies throughout Chile, as well as in various administrative procedures, in bidding processes convened by
different public entities and in the defence of their interests before ordinary and special courts, such as the Public Procurement Court.

Our clients hail from many of the regulated industry sectors, including telecom, energy, food and beverage, technology, healthcare and life sciences.

Services

• Telecommunications
• Public concessions
• PPPs
• Regulated markets
• Administrative public law
• Public contracting
• Data protection and information privacy

Antitrust: This area includes all areas of legislation on antitrust, including litigation before the Tribunal for the Defense of Free Competition (Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia), defense in investigations, advice on negotiation agreements with the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (Fiscalía Nacional Económica) and notification of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, among others.

Services

• Matters related to concentration operations
• Advice on investigations before the National Economic Prosecutor (Fiscalía Nacional Económica)
• Litigations before the Antitrust Court (Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia) and Supreme Court (Corte Suprema)
• Design and implementation of compliance programs

Resolution of Controversies: We represent and defend the interests of our clients in litigious matters before courts, Chilean and international arbitrations, as well as before special courts.

Services

• Civil and commercial trials
• Arbitration / alternative
• Dispute resolution
• Mechanisms
• Consumer law
• Trademark and patent trials

White-collar: We assist clients manage a crisis, provide guidance through an investigation (whether national or international) and provide advise on becoming fully compliant with specific regulations wherever in the world you operate.

Services

• Advising in highly complex criminal litigation
• Compliance and internal investigations

Labor and immigration: We closely support our clients in all legal aspects of personnel management, and provide specialized advice on highly complex matters.

Services

• Comprehensive corporate advisory on labor and social security
• Assistance in business reorganizations
• Collective negotiations
• Expatriation and immigration of workers
• Executive compensation plans
• Litigation
• Labor taxation
• Due diligence and audits

Tax: We provide tax advisory and reorganization services both at a corporate and individual level, designing and implementing strategies to address the development of investment projects and the daily activities of companies and individuals. In addition, we advise on the resolution of controversies that may arise with the Chilean supervising body and before the Tributary Courts.

Services

• Tax consultancy
• Tax reorganization
• Double Taxation Agreements
• Cross-border Agreements and Transfer Pricing
• Tax litigation

Infrastructure, real estate and construction: We advise our clients in the development of real estate projects from their initial phase to their final sale, including the tax planning and implementation phase for its development, such as those areas of legal nature related to title studies, urban planning and construction and commercialization of projects.

Services

• Infrastructure projects
• Real estate advice
• Real estate projects
• Construction contracts (standard, EPC, BOT, etc)
• Urbanism

Industries: Our firm has great understanding regarding a varied number of industries, either due to transactional work or specific analysis carried out in them.

Services

• Agricultural
• Energy
• Financial sectors
• Hospitality
• Insurance
• Science
• Sports and entertainment
• Energy / sanitary / goods for public use
• Real estate and construction
• Mining
• Retail
• Health / laboratories
• Technology / bio technology
• Telecommunications and media
• Transport