Rodrigo Fernández is a partner of the Commercial Law and M&A team, where he practices civil, commercial and commercial law and works constantly on M&A transactions. He has a vast experience advising Chilean and foreign companies, investors and investment and private equity funds. He has been involved in numerous domestic and international M&A transactions in a broad range of industries. He works permanently with clients in multiple sectors, advising many international investors in Chile. He works frequently with controllers and boards of companies in complex and strategic matters and conflicts. He obtained his law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a LL.M. from The London School of Economics and Political Science. He worked as an international associate at the firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Nueva York, USA. He has been recognized in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
Partner since March 2016, when Garrigues Chile was create.
He has a vast experience advising Chilean and foreign companies, investors and investment and private equity funds. His work comprises civil, commercial and commercial law and M&A transactions. He permanently works with an ample client base on multiple industries, with whom he commonly act as leading counsel in the country. he also works constantly on M&A transactions. He advises many international investors in the country.
He has been involved in numerous domestic and international M&A transactions in a broad range of sectors, including energy, telecom, technology, mining, industrial, entertainment, retail, agro and services.
He works frequently with controllers and boards of companies in complex and strategic matters and conflicts.
He works with familly owned-companies in corporate and strategic matters.
He has an excellent command in English.
Law degree, Faculty of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1999.
Master of Laws (LL.M.), The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008.
Chilean Bar Association and the International Bar Association (IBA).
Chambers & Partners y The Legal 500.
Chambers & Partners 2023, band 5 M&A, "Rodrigo Fernández goes above and beyond for his clients and has been instrumental in managing several of the risk-related issues on our transaction with a deep sense of pragmatism."
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