Key areas for the multidisciplinary team at Deloitte Legal Chile include corporate restructuring and commercial law services; the acquisition, sale and merger of companies; and purchases and sales of minority shareholdings. During cross-border transactions, clients additionally benefit from the firm’s legal services network, which is present in over 80 countries. The team’s principal figures are Ruby Soteras, whose experience includes acting for clients from the banking, mining, energy, payments and healthcare sectors; along with director José Tomás Lavín Burgos and senior associate Oscar Cáceres, who are 2022 recruits from Garrigues Chile and Barros Silva Varela & Vigil, respectively. Former senior manager Carla Fortes departed the firm in July 2022.
Key clients
- Clean Capital
- Transbank
Work highlights
- Advised Clean Capital on the ongoing operation of PV plants in Chile, including devising a corporate legal structure and corporate governance mechanism for a new Chilean subsidiary of the group.
- Providing legal services (through an LPO model) to Transbank.