Héctor Herrera

Associate

hherrera@carey.cl +56 2 2928 2215

His practice focuses primarily on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, agribusiness, aquaculture, international trade and foreign investment.


REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • General Electric on the sale of its subsidiary GE Industrial Solutions to ABB, a Swiss technology leader company, for USD2.6 billion.
  • PepsiCo on legal support to its day-to-day operations in Chile.
  • Ferrero Group, Italian agribusiness conglomerate, global leader in the production of branded chocolate and confectionery products, on its investments for Hazelnut farmland in Chile.
  • Cargill and its Chilean subsidiary Ewos on legal support to their production and industrial operations in Chile.
  • Team Foods, a Colombian business group, on the acquisition of BredenMaster, Chile´s frozen pre-baked bakery products and pastries market leader.
  • Salmones Camanchaca, a subsidiary of Compañía Pesquera Camanchaca, a Chilean publicly held corporation dedicated to the breeding, production, commercialization and export of salmon and trout, on a due diligence for its simultaneous IPOs in the stock exchanges of Oslo and Santiago.
  • MetLife on the reorganization of its subsidiaries in Chile, obtaining complex regulatory approvals from the authority.
  • Precision, a US based company and one of the largest worldwide players in the pulleys and idlers industry, on the acquisition of a local manufacturing plant.
  • AFP ProVida, the largest pension plan manager in Chile, on the merger between AFP ProVida and MetLife.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

RELATED AREAS

  • Agribusiness
  • Insurance and Reinsurance
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

EDUCATION

  • Law, Universidad Católica de Chile.
  • LL.M., Columbia University (2014).

ADMISSIONS

  • Chile (2010).

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish.
  • English.