Mr. Guerrero was selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer-review assessments with thousands of leading lawyers each year. And the designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.
Roberto Guerrero V. is a partner of Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa y Errázuriz. He is member of the firm's corporate area and his practice focuses on general corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and banking & finance, project finance and capital markets. Other practitioners from the firm that were named by Best Lawyers in other practice areas were Roberto Guerrero del Río, Roberto Guerrero V., Sebastián Guerrero and Jorge Delpiano in Corporate and M&A; Sebastián Guerrero in Tax; Martín Santa María in Environmental Law and Gonzalo Delaveau in Natural Resources.
Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa y Errázuriz has three decades of experience representing Chilean and international financial institutions and advising its clients on all manner of credit and financings. Guerrero also advises financial institutions (banks, investment funds, fund administrators, institutional investors, brokerages, etc.) and corporations on legal and regulatory changes in the banking industry of Chile.
The firm has been involved in very important deals in the past few years, such as: -Facilitation of US$530 million of external credit received by the buyer of an electricity distribution company.
- US$400 million of external credit received by a firm linked to the transportation sector. -US$65 million local syndicated loan received by a port operator.
- The financial structure of student loans for students of two Chilean professional institutes, guaranteed by a multilateral organization, worth approximately US$54 million.
- Credit of US$5.4 billion granted by Investments Anglo American Sur to a company related in UK to the product of the sale of part of the stakes of ex Disputada Las Condes to the Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation.
- Project finance of US$1.1 billion for the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant in Central Chile.
