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About
Provided by Octavio Bofill
Practice Areas
Corporate/M&A; Capital Markets; Banking and Finance; Restructuring and Insolvency.
Career
Founding partner Octavio Bofill has dedicated his more than 30 years of practice to corporate matters, especially mergers and acquisitions, financing, restructuring and insolvency, and capital markets, among others, both at the local and international level. Octavio has also acted in countless major local and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as on behalf of issuers and investors in capital markets operations.
He has been a professor of Commercial Law at the University of Chile for over 20 years. He is also a member of the list of arbitrators at the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and has been a member of the panel of arbitration of concessions agreements at the Ministry of Public Works since 2010.
Professional Memberships
Member, Panel of arbitrators for concessions agreements, Ministry of Public Works;
Member, List of arbitrators of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce;
Member, Chilean Institute of Commercial Law;
International Bar Association (IBA);
Member of the Board for several open and closed corporations;
Member, Chilean Bar Association.
Chambers Review
Latin America
Prominent practitioner and head of department Octavio Bofill has renowned experience in Chile's M&A and corporate fields. He is often sought out to represent clients in complex transactions, including cross-border deals.
Partner Octavio Bofill co-leads the department and is recognised by interviewees for his work in the Chilean banking and finance arena. He offers a multidisciplinary approach to lead complex structurings and restructurings of financing agreements.
Octavio Bofill is noted for his skills in restructuring matters in Chile by market commentators. He has experience representing debtors and creditors in reorganisation and insolvency processes.
Octavio Bofill of Bofill Mir Abogados focuses his practice on advising on bond issuances. Market commentators note how his extensive knowledge of banking and finance and corporate transactions informs his capital markets advisory.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Octavio Bofill is a very good lawyer with a lot of knowledge and ability to advise clients on complex issues without losing business focus."
"It is a luxury to have a legal advisor like Octavio Bofill, who has mastered an important variety of issues. He has a strategic vision of the business, and is always attentive in his responses."
"Octavio Bofill is a great legal professional who is is very smart and deal oriented."
"Octavio Bofill has high technical knowledge and a lot of experience. He is a good strategist."
"Octavio Bofill offers an impressive level of knowledge and timely service, along with a global vision of the market."
"Octavio Bofill is a very good lawyer with a lot of knowledge and ability to advise clients on complex issues without losing business focus."
"It is a luxury to have a legal advisor like Octavio Bofill, who has mastered an important variety of issues. He has a strategic vision of the business, and is always attentive in his responses."
"Octavio Bofill is a great legal professional who is is very smart and deal oriented."
"Octavio Bofill has high technical knowledge and a lot of experience. He is a good strategist."
"Octavio Bofill offers an impressive level of knowledge and timely service, along with a global vision of the market."