Categoría: Practices

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil has a team specially dedicated to provide general corporate advice to its clients, both national and foreign, who set up and operate in the country, offering legal assistance in all aspects related to the operation of the company, its contractual relationships, reorganizations, acquisitions, transformations and, in general, in all the challenges that arise in the day to day operation of a company.

From the national point of view, Barros Silva Varela & Vigil advises issuers and underwriters of stocks, bonds, bills of exchange and securities in general, both public and private offerings, in the process of structuring and registration of the issuer and its securities before the Financial Market Commission (CMF) and the stock exchanges as well as, subsequently, in the periodic compliance with information reporting duties. Likewise, we advise public and private investment funds from the establishment of the administrators, the structuring and placement of the funds and their ongoing regulatory compliance. We have experience presenting regulations on capital matters to the CMF’s internal sectoral prosecutors, and we have advised large companies in the placement of bonds and bills of exchange, as well as underwriters in similar processes. Regarding derivatives, we assist our clients in the documentation and negotiation with the ISDA.

Regarding foreign markets and/or actors, we have advised Chilean companies in obtaining international financing through 144A Bonds in the United States, as well as foreign companies in the Chilean chapters of multi-jurisdictional takeover bids.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil provides specialized advice on mergers and acquisitions, in all phases of the process that these types of agreements involve, from the preliminary treaties or negotiations and the complete legal audit or due diligence process, to the preparation of all documents pertaining to the transaction, such as memoranda of understanding, promises to sell, merger agreements, purchase contracts, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, etc.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil has represented clients in bilateral and syndicated loans; public and private offers and placements of capital and debt, local and international; securitizations and project financing.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil has extensive experience in advising mining companies, both Chilean and foreign, in all stages of the project and its implementation, to the exploration phase, the start of its activities and full operation, until the end of its useful life with the site closure.

This working group represents its clients in the corporate, regulatory and judicial field, advising them in financing, mergers, acquisitions, energy supply contracts, in their relations with the authorities and in disputes and litigation specific to this area.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil advises national and foreign market actors in the generation, transmission and distribution of energy. The members of this team have participated in the development, construction, operation and financing of hydroelectric, solar photovoltaic, wind and thermoelectric power plants, among others.

This working group represents its clients in the corporate, regulatory and judicial field, advising them in financing, mergers, acquisitions, energy supply contracts, in their relations with the authorities and in disputes and litigation specific to this area.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil has a team specially dedicated to regulatory matters and administrative procedures, before the Office of the Contraloría General de la República, the Constitutional Court, ordinary courts of justice, the Public Procurement Tribunal and various Superintendencies, in tariff regulation, sanctioning procedures, legislative advice, among other areas of public law.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil advises clients in all aspects related to the care of the environment, including all aspects related to the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA, Spanish acronym for Sistema de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental), the relationship and negotiation with communities, litigation, administrative disputes, due diligence processes, territorial regulations and environmental responsibility and obtaining permits.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil has an experienced team of lawyers dedicated exclusively to advising clients in all stages of real estate development projects.

Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil offers its clients a wide range of tax advice. This extends to the design and tax planning of the most diverse activities, in order to undertake, develop and exploit them in the most efficient way possible.

Our Firm has extensive experience in proceedings before the tax authority, representing its clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the Tax and Customs Courts, and before the superior courts of justice.