About
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Our group provides commercially driven legal advice on the full spectrum of financial matters – from local lending transactions to complex cross-border deals. Our extensive experience enables us to navigate any legal, regulatory, and business challenges our clients may face while growing, operating, or financing their businesses.
Our expertise covers a broad range of banking and finance matters, such as acquisition finance, leveraged finance, mezzanine finance, asset-backed lending, assets finance, leasing, corporate lending, syndicated, bilateral, club deals, project finance, sustainability-linked financings, debt capital markets bonds, private placements, medium-term note programs, commercial paper programs, loans participations, green bonds, derivatives and structured products and foreign trade finance, among others.
We advise domestic and foreign banks and financial institutions, including multilateral organizations, regarding structuring financing to Chilean companies, either owned by Chileans or local subsidiaries of international companies. We are regularly involved in corporate financing, project financing, restructurings, and rescheduling for different industries, such as energy, mining, agriculture, and financial services.
We have also counselled local companies in secured loans from local and international banks, including bond issues and the placement of shares in foreign markets. And we advise local banks on regulatory issues.
Chambers Review
Dentons Chile is an active practice group offering expertise across a broad range of mandates pertaining to the Chilean banking and finance sphere. The department has notable strength in advising a diverse array of lenders and borrowers with the structuring of bridge loans, senior credit facilities and debt refinancing mandates within the energy, mining and agribusiness industries.
Work Highlights
- Dentons Chile advised Banco de Crédito e Inversiones on an acquisition finance linked to the purchase of Energía de la Patagonia and Aysén.
Strengths
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"Dentons Chile stands out for meeting high professional standards and in-depth knowledge of matters related to the financial field, which allows its lawyers to provide excellent advice."
"Dentons Chile stands out for meeting high professional standards and in-depth knowledge of matters related to the financial field, which allows its lawyers to provide excellent advice."
Notable Practitioners
Department head Felipe Rencoret routinely advises banking groups on a wide range of corporate finance transactions. He also assists lenders with credit facility agreements in Chile.
"Felipe Rencoret provides a very direct, efficient and results-oriented advice and service."
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Members
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Ana Azócar
Head of Department
Luis Izquierdo
Matías González
Paula Alarcón
Pedro Valdés
Clients
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BID Invest (IIC and IADB)
Banco BTG Pactual Chile
Banco Falabella
Banco Internacional
Banco Santander Chile
Banco de Crédito e Inversiones
Coopeuch
Credit Agricole CIB
IFC
Itaú Corpbanca
Scotiabank
Industries
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Financial Institutions