Chile

Garrigues

ELIGE TU PAÍS / ESCOLHA O SEU PAÍS / CHOOSE YOUR COUNTRY / WYBIERZ SWÓJ KRAJ / 选择您的国家

  • Karen Werner joins Garrigues as partner to head the Dispute Resolution practice in Chile

    Garrigues brings Karen Werner on board in Santiago de Chile as partner in charge of the Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration practice. Her appointment is pending ratification by the next Garrigues Partners’ Meeting.

  • Garrigues wins the award for best law firm in the Andes in banking law

    Garrigues has been named Team of the Year for the Andean States in banking and finance law by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR), which each year selects the best deals carried out in Latin America. The editorial board of this prestigious publication focused on the cross-border component, innovation, and the valuation of the companies involved in each of the deals it analyzed.

  • Garrigues receives the award as the best law firm in Chile from ‘LatinFinance’

    Garrigues was presented with the award by LatinFinance as the 'Law Firm of the Year in Chile' last night in New York. This recognition, one of the most prestigious in the Latin American legal field, takes into account key factors such as innovation and excellence demonstrated by the lawyers, as well as ESG impact and the success of the transactions advised.

  • Chile: Publication of Law No. 21.592, which establishes a whistleblower protection statute

    The law conceives access to protection as a right of any whistleblower who reports irregularities within organisations and guarantees their personal integrity and that of their property, as well as the preservation of their living and working conditions, which could be threatened as a result of their whistleblowing or their participation in the respective investigations.

  • Garrigues, the firm of choice for financial institutions in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru

    The firm tops the LACCA/Latin Lawyer ranking of law firms advising the 50 biggest banks in Latin America.

  • Chile: Implementation of the Energy Efficiency Law moves forward

    With the issuance of Resolution 13 of 2023, the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Law of 2021 (Law 21305) is moving forward. This new resolution lists the companies that must actively manage their energy consumption and how it should be implemented.

  • Chilean Congress approves the Fintech Bill

    On October 12, 2022, the Chilean Congress approved the Fintech Bill (Fintech Law), which now only needs to be enacted by the president of the Republic to become a law. In this information alert we detail the highlights of this new regulation.

  • Key differences between traditional M&As and venture capital

    Contracts for mergers and acquisitions mainly look to spread the risk between the buyer and seller and to regulate shareholder relations within the company. The same occurs with venture capital, but the differences between traditional and venture capital investment bring a number of specific circumstances into play, as explained below, with specific examples from Latin America.

  • Labor law and outsourcing: increased restrictions on this means of hiring personnel

    Regulations governing outsourcing in several countries in Latin America are hindering the use of this strategic option for companies in certain areas of business. 

  • Evolution of non-traditional project finance in Latin America

    In recent years, project finance has gained in importance for funding private projects across a range of industries in Latin America. Due to presenting a number of advantages in its structure, this new mechanism has replaced typical corporate finance. In this article, we discuss the evolution of non-traditional project finance in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.