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.

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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