Carey y Cía

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Carey y Cía is Chile’s largest full-service law firm with over 140 professionals. It provides a complete range of financial and business legal services to many of the world’s most prestigious companies, as well as to international organisations, local public and private enterprises and institutions, and to individuals. It is perceived to be one of the best managed law firms in the country and is among the very top in Latin America. Jorge Carey, widely recognised for his leadership skills, was awarded Chambers’ Global 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award and Latin Lawyer’s Law Firm Leader of the Year Award in 2008. The firm is a member of the Pacific Rim Advisory Council, World Services Group, Terralex, International Network of Boutique Law Firms and The Interlex Group.

Main areas of practice

Antitrust: Carey y Cía has a proven track record in securing clearance for complex M&A and joint ventures. The firm’s antitrust practice encompasses all areas of antitrust law, including advice on regulatory compliance.

Banking & finance: The firm has a long tradition of representing leading Chilean and foreign banks in transactions of every kind.

Energy and oil & gas: Carey y Cía has worked on the implementation, financing and refinancing of some of the major energy projects in the country (including coal, hydropower, non-conventional and LNG projects), advising public and private sectors. The firm provides a complete service ranging from regulatory matters to M&A, joint ventures, negotiation, project development and financing.

Engineering & construction: The firm is market leader in this highly specialised area with a practice group devoted exclusively to advising clients doing construction and engineering projects in Chile, both as owners or contractors.

Government contracts: Carey y Cía represents multinational contractors and manufacturers in the defence, security, gaming, construction and other regulated and unregulated industries, in all their government contracting requirements in Chile.

IP: Carey y Cía’s IP practice merged with premier boutique law firm Estudio Harnecker in 2009. The new name for Carey’s IP practice is HarneckerCarey. The firm also has a strong expertise in consumer protection and product liability matters. In pharmaceutical, the firm provides counselling on areas such as patent prosecution, litigation, antitrust and regulatory matters.

Labour & immigration: Actively involved in collective bargaining in different industries. Vast experience in hiring processes, compensation packages (including stock related plans), terminations and massive lay-offs, labour auditing and legal compliance, subcontracting, labour due diligences, internal investigations, and taxation of employees. Also provides immigration services, such as work contract and temporary residence visas, work permits, and apostille of documents.

Litigation & arbitration: Carey y Cía has earned a national reputation for excellence in complex high-stakes, high-profile business disputes, including civil, commercial, criminal, labour, antitrust, tax and bankruptcy cases involving major multinational clients. The firm’s practice also includes national and international arbitration cases.

M&A: The firm has a market leading practice in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, associations, strategic alliances and public tender offers. It has been involved in many of the major M&A deals in Chile in the last two decades and has been widely recognised for its efficiency, time-effectiveness and creativity in achieving clients’ goals.

Natural resources & environment: The firm advises clients in all natural resources areas and has been involved in all kinds of mining, water, energy, conservation, industrial and forestry projects developed in the country, either as counsel to the project owners, sponsors or financiers. The firm advises clients in all environmental areas.

Real estate: Experience in acquisitions and disposals; joint ventures; portfolio sales and securitisation; real estate investment funds; tax efficiency structuring; real estate financing; sale and leasebacks; development; construction; leases and real estate management.

Tax: The firm’s tax group has positioned itself as the largest tax practice in the country and the leading competitor of the tax departments of large auditing firms. Constantly involved in structuring of major and most complex, national and international transactions, tax litigation, tax planning and tax due diligence processes.

Telecommunications, media & IT: Carey y Cía advises leading incumbents and technology providers and has a wide knowledge of the regulatory, financial and transactional aspects of this industry. The firm is heavily involved in and exposed to competition and litigation issues of the telecom market, and also active in the media and IT fields.