Commercially minded finance advice

Global financial markets change with market dynamics, yet our job remains to help you realize your finance and investment strategies regardless of the current landscape. Our lawyers track new laws, market conditions, and financial products. We balance this with local, legal insight and sector-focused commercial sense to protect your interests in full.

From asset-based lending, corporate lending, leveraged finance, securitizations, structured finance, and venture and growth finance to debt capital markets, sports, media and entertainment, and projects and energy finance, our Finance team helps global providers of debt capital and the companies who borrow from them navigate their most critical and sophisticated finance transactions.

With 800+ finance lawyers across leading global financial centers and start-up hubs, the strength of our global platform delivers financing solutions when and where you need it. We advise on financing across borders, sectors, and products, and help overcome the legal, commercial, and political challenges of running a global business.

I wouldn’t use anyone else – they are really easy to work with. They know which battles to contest and what is easily conceded whilst always having our interests at the forefront.

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Ongoing regulatory and market changes are inevitable. We stay on top of how these might affect you and solve the issues they raise, researching trends and new technologies to give you the best advice. 

We advise you on financing across borders, sectors, and products, and help you overcome the legal, commercial, and political constraints of the countries you do business in. 

We’re a versatile team. Our 700+ finance lawyers are in the leading financial centers, from New York and London to Shanghai and Singapore. We advise on all types of domestic and international transactions, and of every size. We’ve acted for clients in new markets and on thousands of deals. 

Clients say we’re commercially minded and come up with ideas that work for their businesses. 

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In Chile

Our practice group provides legal services in Banking and Finance, offering support to international conglomerates and companies in their traditional financing needs and activities, including banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, and borrowers from all sectors such as energy, construction, and education.

Our team has experience advising banks, financial institutions, and syndicated club banks in structured finance and multilateral transactions. Our advice covers preparing, drafting, and negotiating credit agreements, ancillary documents, security packages, covenants, representation, and warranties.

In financing –including project finance– we advise clients from the beginning of the transaction, including due diligence analysis and report that is used to prepare and negotiate the relevant documents of transactions. We also assist clients in designing legal structures and creating corporate vehicles for financing and guarantees to be granted in favor of lenders.

Further, we advise clients in materializing warranties and securities packages to ensure their enforceability in Chile, on tax structures in Chile and cross-border transactions, and in complex private placement financing transactions.

In Banking, we advise on regulations applicable to banks, drafting and negotiating agreements, among others. We have participated in initiatives for laws and regulations in Chile, having advised the Financial Market Commission and the Ministry of Finance and Economy.

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