Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos

‘Highly prepared to conduct all aspects of a transaction’, Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos' sizeable 48-member department is consistently mandated to advise on joint ventures, private equity and venture capital deals, private and public company acquisitions, domestic and cross-border deals, corporate mergers, spin-offs and restructurings (both with and without change of control). Recent mandates for the full-service firm’s corporate and M&A team include matters from the mining, energy, infrastructure, banking and financial services sectors, as well as insurance, media, aquaculture, healthcare, retail, food, water, utilities and agribusiness. The practice houses several deeply experienced practitioners, namely: Sergio Díez, a highly-rated adviser for corporate law, contracts and agreements; longstanding M&A specialist Gerardo Varela; Cristián Herrera, whose workload encompasses foreign investment and securities regulations, in addition to corporate and transactional matters; Juan Pablo Matus, whose track record includes company and asset acquisitions; corporate, natural resources and mining law specialist Carlos Pérez-Cotapos; and mining sector expert Gonzalo Grez. The practice further includes ’excellent’ corporate and commercial law practitioner Andrea Saffie; corporate and M&A partner Nicolás Lustig, a July 2023 arrival from BHP Minerals Americas, where he was vice-president of legal; and senior partner Francisco J Illanes, who has ‘great legal technical capability’. M&A-focused senior associates María Francisca Salas and Sergio Balharry complete the team. Since publication, Salas has been raised to the partnership - effective as of January 2025.