Chile
Teresita Maria Gonzalez
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Teresita Gonzalez specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital markets, and project development. Their practice focuses on highly sophisticated transactions, advising Chilean and foreign clients on energy, real estate, and various industries such as technology, life sciences, agribusiness, and consumer goods.
Additionally, Teresita provides comprehensive advice in due diligence processes, evaluating the corporate status of the involved entities and managing the preparation, structuring, and negotiation of transactional documents. In this regard, they have extensive experience in drafting and reviewing joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements, commercial contracts, and corporate aspects of insurance policies, as well as negotiating representations and warranties clauses and liability clauses, adapting to the specific nature of each project.
Furthermore, Teresita has experience in Capital Markets, advising clients engaged in operations or activities regulated by the Financial Market Commission.
Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsFinanceEnergy and Natural ResourcesFinancial Services
Bar admissionsChile, 2021
EXPERIENCE
- CarbonFree Technology Inc. throughout all stages of development of photovoltaic power plants, from due diligence processes in a greenfield stage to acquisition, execution of EPC and O&M contracts, and the operational stage of the power plants. We have conducted due diligence on more than 60 projects and advised the client on acquiring more than 40 photovoltaic power plants in recent years, many of which are already operational.
- Inversiones Santa María in selling its stake in the cybersecurity company Neosecure, which has a presence in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, and Brazil, to the Brazilian fund Patria. We also advised them on terminating the shareholders' agreement and future obligations with The Rohatyn Group, which also sold its stake in Neosecure.
- Agrovision, a company dedicated to the development, production, and export of high-quality agricultural products, with a focus on sustainability and technology, on the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Zurgroup S.A. and its subsidiaries, a company undergoing judicial reorganization and dedicated to the farming, packing, and exporting of berries, cherries, and other berry varieties.
- SQM Lithium Ventures in negotiating and preparing a US$3 million equity investment in Terraline, an electromobility company based in the US, in a Series A investment round.
- Almar Water Solutions Latam S.A. and its subsidiary in issuing two legal opinions regarding the operation and maintenance contract for two desalination and seawater supply and transportation systems to mining sites in Sierra Gorda, in the framework of financing the infrastructure projects.
- A private equity investment firm in the negotiation and closing of an agreement to terminate a joint venture incorporated in Chile together with a prominent Chilean family through a Settlement Agreement that contemplates the spin-off of its businesses through the rescue of assets, subsequent corporate acts and a series of guarantees to ensure the execution of such agreement.
- A European underwriting company, in the due diligence and negotiation process of a buyer-side warranty and indemnity insurance policy, aimed to cover the buyer’s liability in the acquisition of 100% of a photovoltaic power plant in operation.
- A Canadian company that provides technological services in geology in a public bidding procedure before a leading Chilean state-owned oil company, in the review of bidding conditions and documentation preparation for the provision of geological technology and geophysical data processing services required by the oil company.
- An energy company in the acquisition of two wind power projects developed in the Lakes Region. The acquisition will materialize with the acquisition of 100% of the shares of two companies incorporated in Chile, and the projects will reach a generation capacity of 18 MWac.
- A private equity investment firm on the negotiation and closing of an agreement to terminate a joint venture established in Chile together with a prominent Chilean family, by way of a settlement agreement providing for the spin-off of their businesses through the rescue of real estate assets, subsequent corporate acts and a series of guarantees to ensure the execution of such agreement.
- A sustainable energy company that funds management company specializing in infrastructure investments in the acquisition of two wind power projects developed in the Lakes Region. The acquisition will materialize with the acquisition of the shares of two companies incorporated in Chile.
- An international insurance company on the negotiation and drafting of a buyer-side representations and warranties (R&W) insurance policy for the acquisition of water desalination infrastructure in Chile.
- A significant investment company with a Polish parent company in the review, negotiation, and investment in the Brazilian group producer of industrial adhesives, specialty laminates, and footwear supplies. Our advice included complete due diligence on its Chilean subsidiary's activities, liabilities, and assets and in the study of potentially materializing the investment through the Chilean subsidiary.
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Education
- Law Degree, School of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2020
- Diploma in Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile, 2023
Connect
Phone
+56 2 27982664
(Work, Santiago)
