Silvana is a Senior Associate in our corporate and commercial team experienced in advising local and foreign clients, both in English and Spanish, on a range of corporate matters. Silvana has extensive experience in M&A transactions, with broad international exposure. Silvana has acted for a number of clients on acquisitions, joint ventures and partnership arrangements, private equity investments, securities offerings and general corporate advisory work. She has a unique expertise in Latin-American practice.

 

Some of Silvana's major projects

• Advising Southern Cross in the transfer of its hospitals operation from Southern Cross Health Trust to a newly incorporated company
• Advising Heinz Wattie's in its acquisition of the La Bonne Cuisine business
• Advising a significant sovereign wealth fund in its acquisition of 50% of Great Northern Developments Limited from APEREF II Ltd
• Acting for Pencarrow Private Equity in its acquisition of an industrial paper business
• Advising a significant foreign investor in its acquisition of 19.9% of AMP Office Trust for $178m and 50% of the management company of AMP Office Trust
• Representing the Republic of Chile in an international arbitration before ICSID, World Bank Group
• Exchange and Tender Offer for the United Mexican States, issuing approximately US$2.3 billion aggregate principal amount of reopened sovereign notes, and the payment of approximately US$1.1 billion of cash (total value of the transaction US$3.3 billion)
• Capital raising for CEMEX (Mexico) raising US$750 million in the U.S. and European markets in a hybrid offer of securities
• Recapitalisation of Ixe Banco S.A (Mexico), through their first international capital markets issue (U.S. and European market), a US$120 million offering of hybrid securities
• Issue of Debt and Equity in the U.S. market for Bancolombia. US$400 million notes offering, the bank's first SEC-registered debt offering, and US$321.6 million equity offering (its first SEC-registered equity offering since its IPO in 1995)
• Multiple sovereign bond issuances for the Republics of Brazil and Panama, including issuances placed in the U.S., Europe and Asia for up to US$1.5 billion each one
• Major capital raisings to finance local and cross border M&A transactions
• Experience representing private investors in arbitrations before the ICC in corporate governance and commercial disputes
• Part of the legal team working in selling the oil division of Unilever Chile
• Legal advice in launching new Coca-Cola products in Chile

 

Member, Chilean Bar Association

Member, Latin America New Zealand Business Council (LANZBC)

Overseas member, Australia Latin America Business Council

 

 

Senior Associate, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, New Zealand (2007 - current)

Visiting Lawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York (2006 - 2007)

Associate Lawyer, Cariola Diez Pérez-Cotapos & Cίa. Ltda, Chile (2000 - 2005)

Secondment General Counsel, Coca-Cola Company in Chile (March - July 2005)

Secondment General Counsel, Unilever Chile (January 2005)