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Fuente: Carey has helped Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI) acquire Walmart Chile’s credit card businesses for US$148 million. Walmart enlisted Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (Chile) for the deal, which was signed on 19 December. BCI’s acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018, pending approval from Chile’s superintendence of banks […]

Fuente: Cuatrecasas in Barcelona and Carey in Santiago have helped the Chilean arm of Spanish car park operator Saba restructure debt worth 20 billion pesos (US$33 million). The bank, Bice, hired Morales & Besa to help them grant the loan. Saba received a secured loan from BBVA and Bice in 2012. Following BBVA’s assignment of its […]

Fuente: Carey has helped private equity firm Mesoamerica acquire a majority stake in Chilean ice-cream shop operator Heladerías Savory. The Albagli, Nassar and Aguirre families, who sold the shares, relied on Chilean law firm Albagli Zaliasnik. Unifood, the food chain operator in which Mesoamerica holds a majority stake, becomes the largest operator of fast-food stores in […]

Fuente: El Mercurio Legal

Fuente: Grandall in Nanjing and Carey in Santiago have helped China’s Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery acquire a 12.5% interest in Chilean wine-producer Viña San Pedro Tarapacá (VSPT) for US$65 million. Jiangsu Yanghe acquired the shares in a stock auction on 3 January, beating off competition from Chile’s Grupo Luksic. VSPT, one of Chile’s largest wine exporters, is […]

Fuente: Linklaters in Hong Kong and New York, Guerrero Olivos in Santiago and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima have helped China Southern Power Grid acquire Canadian private equity investor Brookfield’s 27.8% interest in Chilean transmission company Transelec for US$1.3 billion. Brookfield hired Goodmans LLP in Toronto, Herbert Smith Freehills in Madrid and Carey in […]

Fuente: Diario Financiero

Fuente: Carey

Fuente: Diario Financiero

Fuente: Torys LLP in Toronto and Carey in Santiago have helped Canadian lender Scotiabank buy a majority stake in BBVA Chile for US$2.2 billion. Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (Chile) advised Spanish banking group BBVA. The deal was signed on 4 December. BBVA sold 68.19% of its stake to Scotiabank after getting approval from Chile’s […]

Fuente: Revista INSOL World

Fuente: Ávila, Rodríguez, Hernández, Mena & Ferri in Miami, Garrigues in Madrid and Carey in Santiago have helped Chile’s Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI) expand its presence in the US by acquiring Miami-based bank TotalBank from Santander for US$528 million. Santander, which acquired TotalBank’s parent company Banco Popular in June, relied on Cravath Swaine & […]