LEGAL


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Mining & Energy

We offer a complete range of legal services to help you develop your projects in Chile:


  • Land Title Rights.
  • Indigenous Rights. (Labor Organization Convention - ILO 169)
  • Mining & Geothermal Concessions.
  • Preliminary audit reports, including background searches.
  • Mining/Geothermal due diligence of companies and projects.
  • Investment advice and assistance capital flows.
  • Taxation structure advice.
  • Set up the corporate structure that best suits your needs as a foreign investor.
  • Legal reports for your IPO.
  • Joint ventures.
  • Options to purchase agreements & purchase of concessions.
  • Mining project finance.
  • Water rights.
  • Easements.
  • Engineering and Construction projects: project creation, bidding process, preparation, review and negotiation of all types of contracts such as EPC, EPCM and service contracts with industry suppliers.
  • Environmental law and Environmental impact studies and Environmental Impact Statements .
  • Purchase of Land.

Commercial

Conducting business across the globe can be risky. We aim to mitigate that risk. Whether it be drafting a distributorship agreement or facilitating the sale and purchase of businesses between international parties, we can cater to a variety of needs providing well informed commercial advice.
Services include:


  • Advertising, sponsorship and marketing rights.
  • Business and transaction structures. (including mergers and acquisitions)
  • Buying and selling businesses.
  • Consultancy agreements.
  • Distributorship agreements.
  • Industrial Relations, Employment law and HR.
  • Franchise agreements and general franchise law.
  • Manufacturing - product development, invention, manufacture and delivery.
  • Product licenses.
  • Restrictive trade practices, resale price maintenance, refusal to supply.
  • Shareholders' agreements.
  • Management and service agreements.
  • Strategic alliances, Anti Trust or Trade Practices Act advice.
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Corporate

We specialise in helping our clients establish and operate in the corporate world. From establishing a new enterprise to providing ongoing support such as raising capital. With the advantage of knowing how the Australasian and Latin American corporate worlds work we provide our clients with informed advice and tailored services to our clients.
We provide advice in areas including:


  • Set up of companies and corporate entities.
  • Corporate governance advice and support.
  • Establishing new enterprises.
  • Transaction and business structuring.
  • Due diligence reporting.
  • Capital raising.
  • Public and private mergers and acquisitions.
  • Private equity and venture capital.
  • Acquisitions and disposals of businesses.
  • Mining and exploration investments.
  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances.
  • Share options.
  • Corporate reconstructions.
  • Foreign investment advice.
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Cross Jurisdictional Litigation

Cross-jurisdictional litigation can be a daunting and difficult assignment for the best of us.  However, we have at our disposal a team of experienced international litigators that aim to protect, enforce, and mitigate your position.  We can provide services that cover:


  • Acting as "Local" Corporate Counsel.
  • Mining Law.
  • Water rights.
  • Tax disputes.
  • Comparative Law advice.
  • Enforcement of judgments.
  • Alternative dispute resolution: mediation and arbitration.
  • Commercial disputes.
  • Corporations Law proceedings.
  • Property related disputes.
  • Major debt recovery.
  • Insolvency and bankruptcy advice. (acting for creditors)
  • Property development and environmental disputes.
  • Product licenses.
  • Restrictive trade practices.
  • Service agreements and employment litigation.
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International Project Tenders

With significant experience in International Project Tenders we can advise our clients in relation to a host of different areas, including:


  • Agribusiness.
  • Energy - Geothermal.
  • Infrastructure - e.g. ports, roads, electricity plants, hospitals.
  • PPPs - Private Public Projects.
  • Mining.
  • Project management and assisting your technical team with the Tender process.
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International Treaties

We believe that your business needs to be strategic and take a “regional view"; map out where you want to go and in which new markets you want to participate in.
We can help you understand what is involved with regard to local and international taxes. For example, if you intent to do business in or manufacture in Brazil or Peru, you will need to consider what is involved locally and what are the implications to your Australian business. We can provide you with various options for tax effectiveness.
Depending on your markets you may want to consider bringing your products through Chile’s Trade Free Zone in Iquique. Chile, in comparison to Australia, enjoys stronger and more competitive trading treaties with many Latin American countries, including Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. There are also Tax Free Zones in Brazil that may serve you better.
We can provide you with up-to-date and accurate advice regarding international treaties, specialising in:


  • Free Trade Agreements.
  • Double Tax Agreements.
  • Tax Free Zones.
  • MERCOSUR or MERCOSUL.
  • NAFTA.
  • P4 Treaty.
  • Madrid Protocol.