Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos' seven-strong team advises start-ups and emerging companies at all stages of their development. The group focuses on company start-ups, financing rounds and shareholder agreement negotiations, along with compensation plans, due diligence processes, the exploitation of different technologies and tax restructuring. The team also advises on corporate law, M&A and IP. The IP, technology, privacy, start-up and venture capital teams are led by Rodrigo Lavados, who routinely advises on software licensing, trade mark and technology transfer contracts; while the sector expertise of M&A specialist Andrea Saffie covers casinos, oil, agro-industrial, hotels, investment funds, family offices, and paper and forestry.
Key clients
- WeWork
- Datamart
- Desert Point
- Krealo (Credicorp branch)
- Alpha FX
- qScire
- Metafin Capital
- Arauco
Work highlights
- Advised Datamart on the Chilean section of its flip to Delaware, its corporate restructuring in Chile, and the negotiation of investment documents.
- Advised Acroventus on the creation of a company with an innovative structure for raising capital, as well as tax structuring and corporate issues.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Andrea Saffie, Rodrigo Lavados