We are characterized by providing comprehensive legal advice to our clients, based on our personal knowledge of their business, their risks and their needs, supported by the mutual trust created through a close working relationship.
Our experience in corporate advisory services is characterized by a personalized attention to the legal needs of our clients in relation to their corporate governance, financing, tax-related matters, labor relations, contractual and regulatory areas and civil and labor litigation.
We distinguish ourselves as experts in advising in commercial law, with extensive experience in insurance law and tax advice, as well as in commercial and insurance arbitrations.
“Before giving professional advice to our clients, as a team, we strive to understand their business, its risks, the applicable regulatory framework and the business environment in which it develops.”
- Francisco Gazmuri Schleyer
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INSURANCE
We have developed specialized expertise in insurance law, with the purpose of being able to offer our clients an integral and continuous consultancy on risks of all kinds, especially industrial risks. Our advice includes the analysis of insurance and reinsurance coverage’s; review and drafting of policies and particular conditions; advice in the process of claim settlements and claim settlement challenges, including the legal defense.
LITIGATION
Our practice in civil, commercial, insurance and labor litigation is aimed at obtaining concrete results. We are characterized by an accurate, planned and timely work, both when exercising legal actions or defenses and in the negotiations in which we participate. We have specialized in arbitration in matters of insurance of great risks and we have participated in high profile cases relating to the Chilean insurance market. Likewise, we also have strong experience in the defense of employers in labor lawsuits.
LABOR
We provide a modern labor counseling to our clients, with the purpose being the prevention of conflicts and the establishment of productive labor relations within the company. We actively participate in the development of the human resources policies of our clients and in their execution, through the preparation of individual and collective labor contracts, resolution of legal consultations, collective bargaining, defense in labor lawsuits, among others.
CORPORATE
We provide complete corporate counseling to our clients, attending in a timely manner the different queries of their line of business, actively participating in the decision-making processes and executing them, either through the structuring of commercial operations or through the preparation and negotiation of agreements and document review. In addition, we have extensive experience in mergers, divisions, sales and acquisitions of companies. We actively participate in both the structuring and planning of each transaction, as well as in the processes of due diligence and even the negotiation and preparation of the various contracts required for this purpose. In this matter, multidisciplinary work is carried out, which brings together all the expertise of the firm.
TAX
We have experience in giving tax advice to individuals and companies, including comprehensive tax planning in Income Tax and VAT; analysis and determination of the tax effects of contracts and corporate structures; settlements and claims of Corporate Income Tax, Complementary Global Tax and Additional Tax and the analysis of international double taxation agreements, among others.
COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
We have extensive experience in matters of commercial arbitration and our founding partner is a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago.
REAL ESTATE
We advise our clients at the time of evaluating and specifying the acquisition and leasing of a real estate necessary for the development of their line of business, as well as for the implementation of investment projects. For this purpose, we have vast experience when facing and complying with the various regulations that affect this type of initiatives, and to resolve, jointly with the client to seek the best way to structure their projects.
FINANCIAL
We are dedicated to provide financial advice to our clients, especially in matters relating to credit in general, syndicated loans, debt issuance through bonds, both domestically and abroad, interest in investment funds, analysis of financing contracts and their covenants, among others.
A leader team in good agreements, willing to listen.
María José Gazmuri V.
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As General Manager of a general insurance company, the experience of working for many years with the Gazmuri & Cía team, always gave me the reassurance that they function as a professional and empathic group, where all the aspects and consequences of the decisions were duly weighed and evaluated with a great knowledge and understanding of the business. They always anticipated the consequences of the decisions that must be taken at the managerial level of a company.
FERNANDO CÁMBARA L.
Executive Vice President Liberty Seguros Generales
